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Film Review – Seventh Moon
In Seventh Moon, a couple is spending their honeymoon in China. The movie opens at a street festival to honor the spirits of ghost legends, and they’re checking out the activities, burning papers with wishes/prayers on them, and sampling local food and drink. They meet…
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Children’s Film Festival – The Ugly Duckling
This weekend at Northwest Film Forum, the Children’s Film Festival Seattle is wrapping up their ten-day extravaganza of family-friendly programming from around the world. The final day of programming, Sunday the 6th, will repeat some of the highlights from the previous week. Included in this…
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Film Review – Sanctum
If there is a lesson to be learned from watching Sanctum (2010), it is this: do NOT be a stupid person. No offense to the stupid people out there, but the characters that fill up this sad excuse of a suspense thriller are so head-scratchingly…
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Film Review – Summer Scars
In Summer Scars, some British kids skip school and wreak havoc about the town. Two of them steal a scooter from an old lady. Another of their friends carries his paraplegic brother into the woods with them. They hang out in the woods at a…
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Film Review – The Way Back
Peter Weir’s latest film, The Way Back (2010), is an endurance test for both the characters in the film and for the audience watching it, and I mean that as a compliment. Throughout the film’s one hundred and thirty three minute time span, we watch…
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Film Review – The Rite
While I don’t believe that The Rite (2011) will go down as one of the great horror films like, say, The Exorcist (1973), it does have a surprisingly effective way of telling its story of a skeptical young priest and the experienced exorcist knowing that…
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Indie Film Review – Back to the Garden
In 1988, filmmaker Kevin Tomlinson took a road trip that led him through the Okanogon Valley in eastern Washington state. There, he came across many dozens of people who might be described as hippies, taking part in a “healing gathering” in the middle of a…
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Indie Film Review – NY Export: Opus Jazz
I’ve made it no secret that I am an admirer of dance. To me, dancing is probably the most expressive art form. You may not notice it at first, but dancing is all around us. When a football team scores a touchdown and the fans jump wildly…
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