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).

The 18th annual National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) kicks off Thursday, April 3 at SIFF Cinema Uptown with a gala opening-night ceremony and then then takes over all three of the venue's screens for the remainder of the weekend, along with

For all its dated elements, Walt Disney's 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs remains a masterpiece. The title character isn't exactly the most modern heroine in the world: She happily sings about how someday a prince will come to

President Trump's efforts at erasing Trans identity intensified this week as employees at the National Park Service were instructed to remove the "T" and "Q" from "LGBTQ" from all internal and external communications.

Currently knifing up theaters with cutthroat abandon, the inventively nimble rom-com–horror mashup Heart Eyes is going to go down as one of 2025's most unexpected – if still bloodcurdling – delights.

There's plenty to talk about regarding the 97th annual Academy Award nominations, most of it the usual hullabaloo over perceived surprises (Jeremy Strong for Best Supporting Actor! Coralie Fargeat for Best Director! Nickel Boys and

When his father is pronounced dead years after going missing in an Oregon forest, unemployed writer and stay-at-home dad Blake Lovell (Christopher Abbott) makes the trek back for the first time in 30 years, joined by his journalist wife

As a film critic, I'm used to getting asked unanswerable questions, and I have stock answers for most of them. The most frequent query I receive, naturally, is what I think the best picture ever made is.

There is an early moment in writer-director Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow that permanently burned itself into my psyche. Questioning seventh-grader Owen (Ian Foreman) is participating in one of those gym exercises where the entire class whips

The good news about Sony's latest attempt to transform one of its Spider-Man rogue's gallery of villains, Kraven (the Hunter), into a viable cinematic antihero is that the finished film isn't that bad. The problem is, it's not that good either.

The underdog documentary Lady Like makes several interesting creative choices throughout its brief 87-minute running time. This helps ground the biographical look at the life and times of RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 runner-up Lady Camden

With the sequel's Thanksgiving holiday release on the horizon, I sat down with Moana 2 producer Christina Chen and actor Hualālai Chung on the Space Needle's observation deck to chat about the film.

Be that as it may, I have not read Burroughs' unfinished, semiautobiographical Queer, published in 1985 but written between 1951 and 1953. After watching Luca Guadagnino's disquietingly rambunctious film adaptation, I feel compelled to read it.

It's taken over two decades for the popular ? "You're gonna be pop-u-LAR!" ? Broadway musical sensation Wicked to transition from stage to screen.

Make no mistake, The Grand Illusion is a Seattle landmark, a one-of-a-kind theater that's entirely volunteer run and celebrates cinema of all types and persuasions from around the globe. There's no other venue quite like it anywhere.

Maybe it's appropriate that "The Apprentice" director Ali Abbasi (Border) has made something so perplexingly frustrating, yet still aggravatingly mesmerizing, out of the relationship between young Donald Trump and firebrand lawyer Roy Cohn.

With Terrifier 3, writer and director Damien Leone takes Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) fully into loopily insane, Evil Dead 2 anything-goes territory.