[NOTE: Film viewed previously as a selection of the 2022 Seattle International Film Festival] Question: how often can a film pull in a diverse audience, warm the heart, instill optimism,…
The sharp reality is here: basketball’s reached its off-season. Activity’s completely off the court until October, replaced by business offices and training rooms. What is not lost in that moment…
Hollywood has a way of making or breaking career trajectories. Especially if the subject causes their own sabotage by way of unlucky moves. Last we had seen of writer/director Scott…
[NOTE: Viewed as an official selection of the 2022 Seattle International Film Festival] Growing up carries a series of challenges, at any age. Surviving one’s mid-twenties with its arduous is…
We were all different people back in 1995. Life, love, and cinema were far simpler, often hokier back then. And the realm of sci-fi films could not escape an outright…
It’s an awkward notion when easily invested in a film based on the goodwill it can generate. Only to remember what mistakes it’s made before reaching a point of satisfactory…
[NOTE: Viewed as an official selection of the 2022 Seattle International Film Festival] When a director makes a grand visual statement for their feature debut, it can often go one…
With release timing opportune, Searchlight is looking to save summer, set the tone for Pride season. And perhaps extend an olive branch for healing after an already rough ‘22 for…
Every few years or so, TV and the big screen find themselves at the crosshairs of translating a small screen story for the cinematic scale. 2007’s The Simpsons Movie is…
Around this time last year, I was waxing on about the movies themselves finding their way back into our prominence after 2020 shuttered the gathering places and altered the experiential…