I won’t say that Academy Award winner Takashi Yamazaki has, with Godzilla Minus Zero, made a better picture than 2023’s superb Godzilla Minus One. I am tempted to state that he’s equaled it. Bigger, bolder, and more narratively dense — while also doubling down...
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A sprawling generational epic that left me gobsmacked, La Bola Negra is a boldly ambitious masterwork of unparalleled imagination and emotional fortitude. Moving in nonlinear fashion between 1932, 1937, and 2017, this rich tapestry of love, death, tragedy,...
French Gay photographer Hervé Lassïnce visited Seattle for the first time to kick off the second showcase of his work at Galerie Orsay Paris-Seattle on Capitol Hill. From Oct. 17 to Dec. 19, visitors can see Lassïnce’s photography, depicting the intimate lives...
Some actors can make you forget you’re watching a performance — and John Turturro is one of them. In The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, he plays Harry, a man who steals for a living. Set against the unromantic, lived-in streets of New York City, this...
A work of staggering imagination and empathetic grace, La Bola Negra in many ways may be the movie this moment in history needs. Inspired by the works of renowned Spanish writer Federico García Lorca and Alberto Conejero’s 2013 play La Piedra Oscura,...
Every great underdog story starts with someone willing to take a chance. In 1976, that someone was a struggling, little-known actor named Sylvester Stallone, who wrote a screenplay studios desperately wanted — but he refused to sell it unless he could play the...
It’s easy to go into the mind-blowing documentary You Can See Everything from directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim and assume you’re going to get fresh insights into who Elizabeth Holmes is and whether or not the charismatic but controversial Theranos...
The plot of Whalefall couldn’t be simpler: While searching alone for the remains of his grizzled seaman father, Mitt (Josh Brolin), scuba diver Jay Gardiner (Austin Abrams) gets swallowed by a giant sperm whale. With the odds stacked against him and less than...
If you know anything about Oscar Wilde, you know that he was Gay, transgressive, and brilliant. Salome, the most shocking of his works for theater, contains sexual obsession, murder, incest, suicide, adultery, necrophilia, and Salome’s “dance of the seven...
Writer Aaron Sorkin should stop trying to direct his own scripts. His ticking-clock procedural The Social Reckoning makes so many egregious missteps that watching it to completion can be a chore. But the dazzling Mikey Madison gives one of the best...