Since it's not appropriate for a grown man to file a review that consists of "Wheeee!" I'll say these things: Director Guillermo del Toro is a mad genius, and I want to get drunk with him. "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" is a flawed but tremendously fun comic-book flick with awe-inspiring visuals. And I never thought a Barry Manilow song could be used for anything but evil.
By Mark Rahner | July 10, 2008
In a summer filled with superheroes, special effects and "Sex and the
City" stilettos, it's downright refreshing to review a movie whose most
audacious effect is Abigail Breslin donning a wee cloche hat.
By Moira Macdonald | July 2, 2008
Little Kids, Big City
Tuesday and Wednesday mark the start of the Seattle's summer free- and low-cost film season. Check out these recurring features:
By Lora Shinn | June 24, 2008
Movie reviewer John Hartl's favorite movies at Seattle International Film Festival 2008 included "Boy A," "Edge of Heaven," "Man on Wire," "Stranded."
By John Hartl | June 16, 2008
"The Incredible Hulk," the relaunch of Marvel's green goliath, is an improvement over the ponderous 2003 "Hulk" in nearly every way — except that the actual Hulk still looks scarcely better than something from a video game, and he still barely talks.
By Mark Rahner | June 12, 2008
Gentle Snark
"The Fall," screening at SIFF this weekend and opening in general release next week, is a banquet of breathtaking, dreamlike imagery. And if the story sometimes goes flat, there's always another magnificent image to compensate for it.
By Geoff Carter | May 22, 2008
You'd have to be a filthy commie not to love Indiana Jones, but who seriously thought dusting him off, and bringing him back at this late date — when Harrison Ford is 65 — was a good idea? But "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is still a lot of fun anyway.
By Mark Rahner | May 21, 2008
After several false starts, a half-dozen aborted script ideas and
nearly two decades of talking about it, George Lucas and Steven
Spielberg's fourth Indiana Jones adventure finally rolls into theaters
late Wednesday night -- and it's quite good.
By William Arnold | May 21, 2008
Gentle Snark
The latest installment of George Lucas / Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones" serial, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," opens in Seattle theaters Wednesday, May 21, at midnight. I know you're keen to run to Cinerama and get in line now ... but before you do, and speaking as someone who's seen all three movies in the theater (and on their original theatrical runs, sucka!), I'd like to give you a few words of friendly advice.
By Geoff Carter | May 20, 2008
And so it begins: The Seattle International Film Festival,
starting Thursday and continuing through June 15 with hundreds of
movies, even more hundreds of lines and countless thousands of kernels
of popcorn. For the casual SIFF-goer, the question is this: How do I
choose, from the aforementioned hundreds, what to see?
By Moira Macdonald | May 18, 2008
