Classified as an art film, Mother Mary, directed by David Lowery, weaves together complex emotions and quiet moments. Like many films in this genre, it relies more on mood, atmosphere, and subtext than on a straightforward plot. Throughout the movie, this...
Arts & Entertainment: Film
The 10th annual CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival in Bellingham returns on April 30 with a gala screening of the New Zealand documentary TENOR: My Name Is Pati, written and directed by Rebecca Tansley. The fest’s in-theater component continues...
The first album I ever bought with my own money was Michael Jackson’s Thriller. I must have played that sucker a few thousand times. Song after song blared through our Spokane home. My mom would dance around the kitchen. By the end of the summer of 1982, even...
Any film starring Ian McKellen is bound to be good, and The Christophers is no exception. This 2025 comedy-drama, directed by Steven Soderbergh, delivers a perfect blend of humor and heartfelt moments that keep viewers engaged throughout its...
The 52nd annual Seattle International Film Festival kicks things off on May 7 with a gala screening of Boots Riley’s anarchic I Love Boosters at downtown’s Paramount Theatre and concludes on May 17 at SIFF Downtown with a special presentation of Olivia Wilde’s...
Dr. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up alone on a spaceship, light-years from Earth. His crewmates are dead, his memory is a blur, and he’s surrounded by unfamiliar technology. Slowly, he pieces together the truth: he’s on a mission to save humanity. The sun...
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about 1990s Queer filmmaking. Artists were getting into the dirt, producing some of the most daring, innovative, and searing art of the late 20th century. Dubbed “New Queer Cinema” in 1992 by writer B. Ruby Rich in the...
With The Bride!, an angry, triumphant scream to the heavens and a forceful rebuke to the status quo, writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal finds inspiration in Mary Shelley the person and the artist — and not just in her seminal work, Frankenstein. This is a fiery...
Indian films have long avoided discussions of sexuality and sex. Unlike Western movies, early works never portrayed intimacy or nudity on camera, instead treating the subject as taboo. However, recent ones have begun to embrace the open depiction of these...
After her triumphant 2022 drama Good Luck to You, Leo Grande with Emma Thompson, writer-director Sophie Hyde dug into her own complicated family history, as well as her close relationship with Nonbinary child Aud Mason-Hyde, for Jimpa, an emotionally complex,...