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...

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...

I can’t say Girls Like Girls is the most original Lesbian coming-of-age melodrama I’ve ever seen. There are elements reminiscent of everything from Desert Hearts to Water Lilies — and, you know what? Who cares. I certainly don’t. Writer and director Hayley...

Popular Mattel action figure He-Man returns to life in a new take on Masters of the Universe. This gaudily inventive, strangely tongue-in-cheek bit of sci-fi fantasy weirdness is as much a spin on 1980’s Flash Gordon as a big-budget reimagining of the...

While watching Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first theatrical Star Wars adventure since 2019’s misbegotten The Rise of Skywalker, I tried to put myself back in my 1977 kiddie shoes. It was immediately clear to me that director and cowriter Jon...

In the strikingly Queer science fiction drama Again Again, it’s the day after a time loop — a central idea so terrific, it’s impossible to believe no one else explored it before codirector, writer,producer, co-composer, and star Mia Moore Marchant (talk about...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Last Valentine’s Day, I had a bit of fun writing about ten LGBTQIA+ “romances” that I enjoy watching — not just in February but pretty much whenever the opportunity arises. This was a fun, eclectic, and wildly divisive list filled with idiosyncratic choices...

While I’m not ready to say I liked 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple more than I did its magnificent predecessor, last summer’s 28 Years Later, I will state that director Nia DaCosta, writer Alex Garland, and producer Danny Boyle deliver one of the more...

There’s something about watching two great actors in flawless synchronicity bouncing off one another with vivacious, freewheeling enthusiasm. Think William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally, or Jake...

A beloved family chimpanzee gets rabies. Carnage ensues. That’s the premise for the visceral horror yarn Primate, and while comparisons to Stephen King’s 1981 novel Cujo, the 1986 Elisabeth Shue thriller Link, and the “Gordy” sequence in Jordan Peele’s 2022...

When 2025 is looked back on, it’s likely it will be thought of as the year of Warner Bros. Not just because it released some of the year’s biggest IP hits (Minecraft, Superman) but also because it took on significant risk with several original properties, most...

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...