Movies & TV

CHICKEN RUN is about chickens trying to escape. It is very funny and exciting. Each chicken has a great sense of humor and is weird. Rocky is a lazy liar, and Ginger is a determined and nice chicken. There is another chicken who loves to knit; if you look at her, she’ll definitely be knitting. […]

THERE’S A LOT OF HUMANITY in the film The Lifestyle–human tragedy revealed in the longing for fantasy levels of sexual pleasure alongside the inevitable fate of aging and physical decay. The Lifestyle is a documentary about organized “sport fucking,” group recreational sex among middle class suburban Americans. The subtext is corporeal: cellulite, scars, smoker’s wrinkles, […]

KIKUJIRO IS WORLD-RENOWNED Japanese actor/filmmaker “Beat” Takeshi Kitano’s attempt to try his hand at something other than his usual fare of violent gangster pictures, films whose popularity and undeniable artistry have won him tremendous international prestige and a growing following in this country. Following 1997’s surprise art-house hit Fireworks–undoubtedly his most assured blend of the […]

Do me a favor: Don’t buy a DVD player. You’ll only fuck it up for the rest of us. The fewer the people who own players, the less likely studios are to dumb down DVDs by reducing extras like commentary tracks and languages. If, however, you are a fellow elitist snob, here are some of […]

Thursday, June 22 8:00 FOX BRITNEY IN HAWAII Britney Spears and pals tempt the ire of the volcano gods by performing live in Hawaii. 9:00 A&E MURDER ONE This terrific and short-lived series returns, starring the bald and beautiful Daniel Benzali. Friday, June 23 9:00 FX TOUGHMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Washed-up pro football players and wrestlers […]

Thursday, June 15 8:00 WB POPULAR Sam and Brooke’s latest catfight involves (wouldn’t ya know it) boys. 9:00 USA SUDDEN DEATH–Movie (1995) Jean-Claude “Wham-Bam” Van Damme stars as a hockey-playing fire marshal who likes beating the puck out of everybody. Friday, June 16 5:00 AMC HITCHCOCK MARATHON The films of Alfred Hitchcock are celebrated, starting […]

OPENING 24th ANNUAL YOUNG PEOPLE’S FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL– Northwest Film Center @ Whitsell Auditorium BOYS AND GIRLS– 82nd Avenue DREAM OF LIGHT– Northwest Film Center @ Whitsell Auditorium EXPERIMENTAL FILMS @ CINEMA NEXT DOOR– Cinema Next Door FANTASIA 2000– Division Street FIRST MAN INTO SPACE– Hollywood Theatre HAIRSPRAY– Hollywood Theatre MORTU NEGA – Northwest […]

I WATCHED THE NEWEST VERSION of Shaft with my friend Eben Eldridge, who saw the original version when it came out in 1971 (I was still learning to talk at the time). After the movie we had the following conversation. Eben: John Shaft is a cold-blooded, calm, calculating avenger. He lives in a racially charged […]

THIS IS A FILM ABOUT SUBTLETY, nuance and patience: A Spanish painter, Antonio Lopez Garcia, stands in a courtyard trying to render light through the leaves of a Quince tree. Ultimately, the artist gives in to failure, compromised by the brevity of seasons, light and life. The artist’s painting, like the film, is an effort […]

Thursday, June 8 9:00 FOX GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS This week: Bearded ladies, Komodo dragons, and some dork who lifts bricks with his ear. 9:00 MTV 2000 MTV MOVIE AWARDS Television’s most smart-assy movie awards ceremony, featuring hotsy-totsy Sarah Jessica Parker (Square Pegs). Friday, June 9 9:00 MTV REAL WORLD/ROAD RULES CASTING SPECIAL How the new […]

OPENING THE BIG TEASE– Cinema 21 THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL– Hollywood Theatre DIVINE TRASH– Clinton Street Theatre GONE IN 60 SECONDS– 82nd Avenue A PERSONAL JOURNEY WITH MARTIN SCORSESE THROUGH AMERICAN MOVIES– Northwest Film Center @The Guild Theater WINTER SLEEPERS– Cinema 21 MOVIES & EVENTS *American Movie A documentary about the trials and […]

THE PROBLEM with experimental films is that they are experiments. The makers of the films in the traveling Super Super-8 Film Festival, however, would probably dispute the idea that they are simply experimenting. What to us is idle dabbling must be to them a glorious individual work, valuable in its own right. Though many American […]