Don’t miss the CoFF film fest—premiering this Friday! If you’re looking for some great laughs and creativity, don’t miss the Confinement Online Film Fest (CoFF) debuting this Friday! Since we’re all stuck inside anyway, we asked local amateur filmmakers, artists, and creative people to send us short homemade movies that demonstrate how we are living, […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Thurs May 21
Movie Madness University: The Chinese BoxerHollywood Theatre’s head programmer and literal savior of Kung Fu history, Dan Halsted, leads the first class in Movie Madness University tonight at 7:30pm, looking at the impact Jimmy Wang Yu’s 1970 film The Chinese Boxer had on Kung Fu history, both stylistically and financially. Tuition cost ($10) doesn’t include […]
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Get Your Tickets Now for the Confinement (Online) Film Fest—THIS FRIDAY!
Don’t miss the CoFF film fest—premiering this Friday! If you’re looking for some great laughs and creativity, don’t miss the Confinement Online Film Fest (CoFF) debuting this Friday! Since we’re all stuck inside anyway, we asked local amateur filmmakers, artists, and creative people to send us short homemade movies that demonstrate how we are living, […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Wed May 20
The Stranger‘s Silent Reading PartyEvery Wednesday at 6 pm we’re going to throw these parties, at least until stay-at-home is over. Attendees at the first Zoom silent-reading party included famous actors, writers, composers, artists, families, teenagers doing their homework, people staring into space listening to the music because it was just so beautiful, cats, and […]
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In Memoriam: A Lynn Shelton Streaming Guide
Acclaimed Seattle filmmaker and all-around beloved person Lynn Shelton died at 54 on Saturday, May 16, but her inspiring and often highly personal body of work lives on. Whether you’re a longtime fan or you’re new to her work, we’ve rounded up some of the films and TV shows she’s written and/or directed with links […]
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What We’re Enjoying: The Great, Little Fires Everywhere, Mary Tyler Moore, and More
The Great Ollie Upton/Hulu When we’re not working our tails off to bring you breaking news on the coronavirus and updates on the election, the Mercury editorial team is spending evenings and weekends much like you: filling our free time with whatever entertainment we can get our mitts on. So if you’re looking for some […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Tues May 19
Patton Oswalt: I Love EverythingFor those who like good things in their lives, this thoughtful lefty nerd is the best, and you will miss out on a ton of laughs if you aren’t settling into your couch to watch the latest stand-up special from America’s most lovable comic, and perhaps the only worthwhile person to […]
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The Confinement Online Film Fest (CoFF) Starts Friday—Watch the Trailer!
Don’t miss the CoFF film fest—premiering this Friday! If you’re looking for some great laughs and creativity, don’t miss the Confinement Online Film Fest (CoFF) debuting this Friday! Since we’re all stuck inside anyway, we asked local amateur filmmakers, artists, and creative people to send us short homemade movies that demonstrate how we are living, […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Mon May 18
Community Table ReadThe mantra for writer/creator Dan Harmon’s sitcom masterpiece Community was always “Six seasons and a movie” but that mantra now has to make room for “oh and a live-streamed cast-reunion table-read of a season four episode with the actual Mandalorian as a guest star to support World Central Kitchen and Frontline Foods.” It’s […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Sun May 17
The Last Dance FinaleThe absence of sports has turned ESPN’s 10-part Chicago Bulls documentary The Last Dance into the NBA Finals, the World Series, and Wrestlemania all in one. Apologies, did we say “Chicago Bulls” documentary? Because it’s not really that. It was kinda-sorta that at first, but now it’s essentially a highly entertaining, endlessly […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Sat May 16
Sea WallWhile Phoebe Waller-Bridge was deservedly and rightfully showered with awards for Fleabag season two, it can be argued (and she’s made this case herself) that if it wasn’t for Andrew Scott as Hot Priest, the season would have never happened at all. But before he was Hot Priest (and before he was Moriarty in […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Fri May 15
The Class of 2020 Graduates w/ Oprah WinfreyCOVID-19 has been particularly rough on schoolkids. It might not seem that way if you take the most superficial of looks at the situation, i.e. “Hey, they don’t have to go to school, I wish I didn’t have to go to school, har har!” But not only have […]