The best popcorn film of the summer is writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s wildly entertaining Spielbergian throwback, The End of Oak Street. Like some surreal, creative melding of a 1960s episode of The Outer Limits, Jurassic Park, Poltergeist, and...
Arts & Entertainment: Film
Leave it to the studio that made The Purge series to allow director Will Gluck (Easy A, Anyone But You) and writer Travis Braun to craft a romantic comedy about the rise of a fascist political regime in the United States that bans all forms of sexual...
Every so often, a film arrives with a story so human and so real that it lingers long after it’s over. Elsinore — landing in select theaters on November 20 — looks to be exactly that kind of film, a true story most people have never heard. Elsinore follows the...
The Tom Holland run as Peter Parker/Spider-Man has been a series of “bit better than okay,” in my opinion. Though I’d listen to arguments regarding 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, the only entry in this iteration of the character I can rewatch without getting...
I walked into an advance screening of Tony knowing next to nothing. No trailers had crossed my feed. No articles had tipped me off. I sat down with zero expectations — and I walked out shaken in the best possible way. When the credits rolled, the packed house...
Forty years after Little Shop of Horrors first charmed audiences with its irresistible blend of comedy, horror, romance, and unforgettable music, Ellen Greene still speaks about Audrey with the same warmth and affection that made the character an icon. As the...
The fifth annual Vashon Island Film Festival kicks off August 13 with a gala screening of director Matt Johnson’s Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony and concludes on August 16 with presentation of the 2026 Tribeca award-winner Labrador — Autopsy of Silence directed...
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, The Dark Knight) achieves something monumental and magnificent with his robust, stridently adrenalized adaptation of Homer’s eighth-century BCE epic poem The Odyssey. In this modern interpretation that still pays exhilarating...
Among all the Hollywood biographies and histories I’ve read, this book truly stands out. I was genuinely impressed by the depth of research and the behind-the-scenes revelations I had never encountered. It’s a compelling and exciting read. Even the famous...
The list of good films — let alone great ones — based on or inspired by memorable songs is short. Earth Girls Are Easy? Maybe. Alice’s Restaurant? I might give you that one — it’s quirky and weird. Love Potion No. 9? Absolutely not, and I’d be ashamed if it...