As a film critic, I'm used to getting asked unanswerable questions, and I have stock answers for most of them. The most frequent query I receive, naturally, is what I think the best picture ever made is.
Arts & Entertainment: Film
There is an early moment in writer-director Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow that permanently burned itself into my psyche. Questioning seventh-grader Owen (Ian Foreman) is participating in one of those gym exercises where the entire class whips
The good news about Sony's latest attempt to transform one of its Spider-Man rogue's gallery of villains, Kraven (the Hunter), into a viable cinematic antihero is that the finished film isn't that bad. The problem is, it's not that good either.
The underdog documentary Lady Like makes several interesting creative choices throughout its brief 87-minute running time. This helps ground the biographical look at the life and times of RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 runner-up Lady Camden
With the sequel's Thanksgiving holiday release on the horizon, I sat down with Moana 2 producer Christina Chen and actor Hualālai Chung on the Space Needle's observation deck to chat about the film.
Be that as it may, I have not read Burroughs' unfinished, semiautobiographical Queer, published in 1985 but written between 1951 and 1953. After watching Luca Guadagnino's disquietingly rambunctious film adaptation, I feel compelled to read it.
It's taken over two decades for the popular ? "You're gonna be pop-u-LAR!" ? Broadway musical sensation Wicked to transition from stage to screen.
Masterminded by Penthouse doyen Bob Guccione, written by internationally renowned Gay scribe Gore Vidal, and directed by sexploitationist Tinto Brass, 1980's Caligula rapidly became the most expensive independent production in cinema history
Make no mistake, The Grand Illusion is a Seattle landmark, a one-of-a-kind theater that's entirely volunteer run and celebrates cinema of all types and persuasions from around the globe. There's no other venue quite like it anywhere.
Maybe it's appropriate that "The Apprentice" director Ali Abbasi (Border) has made something so perplexingly frustrating, yet still aggravatingly mesmerizing, out of the relationship between young Donald Trump and firebrand lawyer Roy Cohn.