Archive for February, 2011 (16 posts)

  1. Washington FilmWorks relaunches Pulling Focus series

  2. The High Bar w/Warren: Sam Mulvey (atheism)

    If there is a god, why is there no Martin Miller’s gin at The High Bar? Sam Mulvey of “Ask An Athiest” helps Warren tackle the great imponderables.

  3. Pixar’s pix are… What!?!

    I like to imagine that on his days off, Stephen Hawking likes to talk about micro-brews and midget mud-wrestling, really anything but black holes, quantum physics or how to speak [...]

  4. Preview: I AM

    I AM Thursday, February 24th, 2011 @ 7PM Landmark Harvard Exit  (807 E Roy st, Seattle, WA 98102) * PLEASE NOTE: If you would like to see this preview of [...]

  5. Call me stoked, Ishmael!

    Some folks think I’m a film snob. Bless my friends and fellow film-lovers who know I love cheese more than Speedy Gonzales. Today, my very special thanks to feral-child-turned-filmmaker Sean [...]

  6. A leap of faith?

    Folks who feel like killing themselves are going to have to find a different landmark to leap from. The Washington State Transportation Department has finally installed a 9-foot suicide prevention [...]

  7. Preview: CEDAR RAPIDS

    CEDAR RAPIDS Wednesday, February 16, 2011 @ 7:00pm Regal Cinemas Meridian 16 1501 7th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 Directed by: Miguel Arteta Written by: Phil Johnston Produced by: Alexander Payne, [...]

  8. The High Bar w/Warren: Jeannie Yandel (story-telling)

    Jeannie Yandel spins quite the yarn for Warren at The High Bar. She loves to tell a story and helps those who wish to tell theirs better. On this episode, [...]

  9. SECONDS chances?

    If we could escape our pasts, would we have any hope for the future? At several junctures in my life, I have felt compelled to “start over,” sometimes geographically by [...]

  10. Much of the penguins

    Often, the best advice comes from the least expected sources. Years ago, I hosted a Seattle preview screening of LITTLE CHILDREN with special guest, Todd Field, the director. I was [...]

  11. The Monarch’s mono-Logue

    THE KING’S SPEECH suffers from an impediment almost as damaging as King George VI‘s; that is, the movie stammers, it has many grand ideas, yet an inability to convey them [...]

  12. Ebert writes from the heart?

    This may be Roger Ebert’s best review in years, it reads more like the confession of the lovelorn than movie criticism and yet it still comes across as a spot-on [...]

  13. Misery loves company

    Faced with devastating news, I always wonder whether to run away or wallow. As much as I enjoy escapism, however, typically, I opt for immersion, a cinematic implosion therapy, choosing [...]

  14. All together now

    Okay, can we just all agree now to give next year’s SAG Ensemble Award to the cast of PEEP WORLD? I don’t care if the movie doesn’t live up to [...]

  15. Juliette, not even of The Spirits

    This year’s Oscar® nominations didn’t piss me off nearly as much as in prior seasons; there aren’t too many awful inclusions and relatively few glaring omissions. (I hope the latter [...]

  16. Just because you call it Art…

    Far be it for me to distinguish between graffiti and Art; I’ll leave such bourgeois nit-picking to the critics and, worse, the collectors. Indeed the only reason I mention it [...]