Movies & TV

FOR YEARS NOW, local film programmers have been trying to negotiate the annual juggernaut that is the Seattle International Film Festival. Regardless of one’s opinion of the festival itself, it’s a simple fact that trying to counterprogram an event that consolidates 200 films, 25,000 people, and the focused attention of every media outlet in the […]

THE HUGHES BROTHERS’ documentary American Pimp opens with a montage of middle-class white Americans expressing total contempt for the practice of pimping. What’s striking about this opening is not so much the angry and often ridiculous comments (it’s easy to get random people on the street to say stupid things), but that the outraged whites […]

AT THIS POINT in his long and brilliant career, Woody Allen should be allowed the dignity of coasting on his reputation. And that’s just what he’s done, at the rate of a movie a year in the decade or so since his last all-out great film, Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)–with contested exceptions made for Husbands […]