<span class="the">Draw your own conclusions.</span>
It is a given that “straight-to-dvd” connotes quality lesser than a theatrical release; and, it is accepted, sadly, that family fare needn’t aim high artistically either. However, I believe the [...]
Time to sink the soufflé. As the Food Network elevates so-so chefs to celebrities and wannabe grub-wranglers to on-air “experts,” perhaps we ought remember that our nourishment, while delightfully sustaining, [...]
And now, a brief mash note from Kim Ricketts celebrating our next guest at Words & Wine: Calvin Trillin… Well, Words & Wine kicked off in January with Steven Johnson, [...]
Few can build a better mouse-trap, but everyone believes they can write a better screenplay. Something about the visual medium — its accessibility? its alleged formulas? — drives otherwise sane [...]
Good film composers maintain an anonymity greater than James Belushi‘s acting coach. Indeed, a good score should almost go unnoticed. Pity poor Mateo Messina, a tunesmith so talented that few [...]
Some partnerships make sense: Tom & Katie; some do not: Tom & Jerry. Some partnerships are delicious: Ben & Jerry; some are completely unpalatable: Ben & J. Lo. Some partnerships just [...]
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:00 pm JBL Theater, 325 5th Avenue North, SEATTLE Presented in partnership with The Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame Don’t miss [...]
Hellllllllloooooooo, Patient Movie-lovers! I am sorry. You are experiencing technical difficulties. So are we. Recently, The Warren Report re-launched its website — reset your bookmark to www.thewarrenreport.com — in an effort to better serve you, [...]
Warren catches Mary Elizabeth for a quick chat about her long-time friendship with director Mo Perkins, her love of alcohol, and why she gets a little stabby when other women [...]
A team of Dutch smartypants (is the plural smartypantses?) has announced their theory for why we humans are so willing to mimic sheep in our apparent need to conform. Well, [...]
On Sunday night, Meryl Streep proclaimed there is no such thing as a “Best Actress.” Of course, such magnanimity must come easier after you’ve just won the award! Eh, Meryl? While [...]
Roman Polanski may be one of filmdom’s most compelling characters; a man who mirrored both Alfred Hitchcock‘s sardonic talent and questionable social skills. Roman also exhibited Fatty Arbuckle‘s notorious lack of restraint [...]
Oak Tree Cinemas Rated PG for some suggestive humor, brief mild language and action. **Please check in with The Warren Report ambassador, the jocular Julie C!** Directed by: Harald [...]
AMC Pacific Place Cinemas 600 Pine Street, SEATTLE Many thanks to the delightful Dewdrop! http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/theuninvited/ Cast: Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel and David Strathairn In the suspense [...]
Pan Pacific Seattle Hotel, 2125 Terry Avenue , SEATTLE Many thanks to the tempestuous Tay M! This event is a presentation of The Warren Report in partnership with Kim [...]
Mickey Rourke pinned a Golden Globe for embodying THE WRESTLER*. Sean Penn, obviously, convinced The Screen Actors Guild to cry over kill’t MILK. If I were deciding this year’s Best Actor Oscar®, [...]
Pacific Place Cinemas 6th & Pine Seattle **Please check in with The Warren Report ambassador, the jocular Julie C!** A riveting action-thriller, PUSH burrows deep into the deadly world of [...]
Pacific Place Cinemas 6th & Pine Seattle NEW IN TOWN stars Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick, Jr., JK Simmons and Siobhan Fallon Hogan. Lucy Hill (Renee Zellweger) is an ambitious, up [...]
The Progressive Poet A political poetry contest Let your inner political bard out! Think you have what it takes to be Washington’s State’s first political poet laureate? Well bring on [...]
I confess… the fabulous filmmaker Richard Shepard (THE MATADOR, THE HUNTING PARTY) talked me into doing something I never thought I would, but hey, I was in Sundance! Besides, what [...]
It feels safer to question issues related to terrorism and homeland security now that Obama is in office. So, let me ask you this: Is writer-director Jeffrey Nachmanoff‘s TRAITOR… a) [...]
Warren chats with documentarian Daniel Junge regarding the definition of justice, the importance of documentaries to be entertaining, and why they killed Sister Dorothy. [display_podcast]
Philippe Petit redefines high-strung. The antic wire-walker, who famously and somewhat recklessly traversed the sky-scraping divide between New York’s fallen twin towers, remains a man of high energy and lofty [...]
If you should ever become homeless, don’t do so in Park City, Utah. Believe me. Or, watch Volume 2 of my Sundance video journal…
Warren catches Elizabeth Reaser & Michelle Trachtenberg for a quick chat at Sundance where they talk of suicidal tendencies, euthanasia, and retail therapy. [display_podcast]
Ah, the joys of Sundance… The fun starts once the plane hits the tarmac… and the stars hit the baggage carousel…
I’ve got a face for radio, a voice for reason and a body built for sin… though not the good kind of sin, I was thinking more like sloth. But [...]
HUMBOLDT COUNTY was just released on dvd. Pass it by and you won’t get high… on a solid indie flick. If you haven’t heard it yet, check out my long-form interview [...]
Warren joins Errol Morris for Part 2 of the discussion around his latest documentary Standard Operating Procedure. Errol discusses the bigger issues raised by the torture photos leaked from Abu [...]
Ask 10 women on the street the best place to have a baby and the vast majority of them will tell you you’d be an idiot not to give birth [...]
Warren sits down with Matt Messina (composor) to discuss the musical intelligence of Jason Reitman, the best places for breakfast at 3am, and why sometimes it is better to know [...]
Many thanks to the jaunty Jessica Y! The Henry Art Gallery. This event presented in conjunction with TheFilmSchool. **Please note: Oscar®-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu will join Warren Etheredge of The [...]
Many thanks to the chilvarous Charlie C. http://www.endofamericamovie.com/ The Henry Art Gallery, 15th Ave NE & NE 41st St, SEATTLE Please note: Filmmaker Annie Sundberg will join Warren Etheredge of [...]
JBL Theater @ EMP, 325 5th Ave N (at Seattle Center), SEATTLE Many thanks to the magnificent Bartoks! Winner: AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM – Nantucket Film Festival Winner: AUDIENCE [...]
University of Washington HUB Auditorium Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, some drug references and language. Running time: 94 minutes **Please check in The [...]
Hellllllllloooooooo, Rabble-rousers! Let’s get ready to ruuuuummmmmmmbbbblllllleeeee! The Warren Report posts new content daily (my resolution) and as proof , check out three new, free podcasts: * My steel-cage audio [...]
Warren chats with Daniel Junge, director, where they talk of the importance of entertainment, the needs for compelling material, and the courage of one woman’s struggle to protect one of [...]
It’s time for The Rolling Stones to embrace alternative energy and rework the lyrics of Jumpin’ Jack Flash. It’s not a gas, gas, gas. It’s a solar panel, a wind [...]
Warren moderates a panel discussion with Steve Bonaugurio (Director), Betsy Chasse (Producer), and Suzy Myers, (co-founder of The Seattle Midwifery School) where they discuss the unnecessary drugs administered to women [...]
Warren catches Darren Aronofsky on his wrestling tour for a brief Q&A where they chat about the power of the documentary look, the joys of working in a grocery deli, [...]
Helllllllooooooooo, Warren Reporters! Let me share my recipe for a very happy New Year: Drink before you think. Life’s much more fun with a cocktail in one hand and a [...]
Trying to quell the sick feeling that always engulfs me after viewing truly gruesome true crime films, I flagellate myself: Why, why do I watch this stuff? Quite right: like [...]
Hellllooooooooo, Suspicious Individuals! I’ve been imagining the holidays at John Yoo‘s house. Maybe he ran around his blindfolded and spread-eagled relatives screaming: “If I wanted a Happy New Year, I [...]
Warren chats with Errol Morris about the semantics of the Bush Administration, existing in a state of denial, and the cover-ups of cover-ups of cover-ups.
The Warren Report’s Headquarters, The Carnegie Library – 2nd Floor, 2026 NW Market St, SEATTLE Monday, July 30, 2007 – 7:00:00 PM Many thanks to the splendid SCCtv! Join Warren [...]
Can’t live with it; can easily live without it.
Seattle filmmakers defy the odds. This year, 3,661 films were submitted for consideration for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Only 118 were selected. Of those, three represent Seattle. David Russo’s [...]
In a rumbling, tumbling, stumbling economy that shows as much hope for revival as THE BLONDE IN THE THUNDERBIRD (Suzanne Somers’ one-woman Broadway debacle) perhaps it’s time we start adopting [...]
Warren sits down with actress Mia Kirshner ( The L Word) to discuss her seven year journey to create the paper documentary i live here. I Live Here is a [...]
Memory doesn’t serve. Ari Folman did. As a young man, the filmmaker participated in the Israeli army’s incursion into southern Lebanon in 1982. During the bloody war, Israelis allowed Christian [...]
posted by Cheryl Murfin Grace is really gone….but, alas, the war is not “America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. . .the smoking gun that could come in [...]
Tweak FDR: We have nothing to fear but… ourselves. Whether paranoid delusional or co-dependently pragmatic, we make our own (motel) hells, almost involuntarily, as if the creation of Fear was [...]
Happy New Year, Concerned Citizens! On Saturday, January 10th, 2009, I will be hosting a special screening of FUEL — which is on the Oscars® short list for Best Documentary [...]
