I have a theory about remakes. The best ones tackle an interesting idea or narrative thread that never lived up to its intriguing potential the first time around. John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon, Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, Tony Scott’s Man on Fire,...

I can’t say I knew what to expect from a remake of 1984’s infamous, controversial cult favorite, Silent Night, Deadly Night. The original, for all its faults (of which there are far too many to count), is one of the most iconic slices of low-budget pulp...

It’s rare that a picture has me as perplexed as Wicked: For Good does. Even though it was filmed back-to-back with its Academy Award–winning predecessor, this one looks a lot better. There’s less digital sludge, the backgrounds have additional tactile pop (and...

In 1974, writer Linda Rosenkrantz had the idea for a new book. She would interview a series of artists, musicians, authors, and other significant figures to narrate in intimate detail what they experienced over the course of a single day. While the project...

On a seemingly normal day in Brooklyn, club owner and DJ Dre (Katy O'Brian) is floundering. She’s desperate to find a replacement when her latest show’s headliner, international drag superstar Jasmine (Dominique Jackson), cancels at the last minute. Meanwhile,...

Tina Romero didn’t want to make a zombie movie. While her father, George A. Romero, didn’t invent the zombie picture, he certainly codified it into the mainstream of genre cinema with his groundbreaking 1968 underground classic Night of the Living Dead, so...

Independent journalists fight for survival in this era of corporate and billionaire control of the media, coupled with vitriolic political attacks on the press. An Iranian village councilwoman sparks controversy when she urges young women to question...

I doubt that there will be much debate that Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale is going to be considered one of 2025’s best films or end up as some sort of awards juggernaut (save maybe for series veteran Anna Robbins’s sumptuous costumes). Not that it matters....

The last time a Red Sonja adaptation hit theaters was in the infamous yet still fascinatingly rewatchable 1985 effort starring Brigitte Nielsen in the title role and Arnold Schwarzenegger as her determined compatriot Kalidor. Since then, while there’s been...

Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke, the team behind Drive-Away Dolls, return with their second Lesbian black comedy starring Margaret Qualley in as many years, Honey Don’t! — a James M. Cain meets Dashiell Hammett neo noir (with a healthy dash of Lana and Lilly...

Like many from my generation, my first encounter with Terence Stamp came in his brief appearance in 1978’s Superman as the powerful General Zod. In less than five minutes, he managed to terrify me right to the core. Each glare, each proud shrug of the...

If 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer was only made thanks to Scream being a box office juggernaut a year prior (it also helped that both were scripted by Kevin Williamson), a case could be made that the reason the former’s 2025 sequel exists is in large...

Concentrating on ACLU attorney Chase Strangio as he prepares to argue before the Supreme Court in December of 2024, Heightened Scrutiny is filmmaker Sam Feder’s follow-up to his award-winning 2020 Netflix documentary Disclosure.

The 2025 Vashon Island Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, August 7, with a gala screening of director Noémie Merlant’s The Balconettes, a charming, pitch-black comedy about three women trapped in a Marseille apartment during a heat wave. It’s a delightfully...

At this point, it’s quite clear that James Gunn knows how to successfully bring comic book superheroes to the screen. If his Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy didn’t already prove this — easily the best self-contained story arc in the entire Marvel...

Watching Sorry, Baby was a form of cinematic catharsis I didn’t know I needed until the film was long over and I was sitting alone in the theater, staring at a blank screen.

I first met "Clown in a Cornfield" director Eli Craig when he came to town in 2010 with actor Tyler Labine to showcase his feature-length debut, "Tucker & Dale vs. Evil", at the Seattle International Film Festival.

If nothing else, "Clown in a Cornfield" delivers on everything hinted at in its title. There is a clown, Frendo, the incarnation of a beloved small-town corporate mascot.

The 51st annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) kicks off on Thursday, May 15 at the historic Paramount Theatre with a gala screening of the Irish comedy "Four Mothers", starring James McArdle and Fionnula Flanagan.

I can’t say I was excited about new take on 1993’s The Wedding Banquet, directed by Ang Lee and co-written by frequent, fellow Oscar-winning collaborator James Schamus (along with Taiwanese actor and writer Neil Peng).