Movies & TV

I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s tired of the saccharine sexlessness that so often pervades queer coming-of-age stories. These tales are usually overly tame, heavily predicated on the plot of the protagonist’s coming out, and sanitized for straight audiences. (See: the running joke in the comedy series The Other Two, in which Cary […]

What’s fun about making a short film, in an extreme time crunch, on no sleep? Read this fun Ben Coleman rundown of film fest

48-Hour Film Project is like Tough Mudder but movie

It’s natural to find (or even invent) patterns when major media properties or historical moments collide. They wind up inextricably linked: Think of Dark Side of the Moon as synced with Wizard of Oz, or a Bagel Bites commercial that rewrote a country standard for a new snacking generation, or that Coup album cover with […]

In many regions of Japan, late summer is synonymous with hanabi festivals—celebratory fireworks displays that, in some towns, can go on for the better part of two hours—with vendors on hand to keep attendees fed with meals and snacks. Sadly, this tradition hasn’t made its way here, even with the Japanese diaspora already established throughout […]

When writer-director Celine Song’s acclaimed debut feature Past Lives recently opened the 49th Seattle International Film Festival, it represented a fittingly poetic full-circle moment of sorts. It turns out this was not the only time Song had come through the Pacific Northwest with one of her stories to share. “I keep wanting to tell people, […]

In 2011, an upstart start-up arrived on the scene with the intent of disrupting the traditional methods of moviegoing—before flaming out spectacularly eight years later.  While active, the folks behind MoviePass—a service that at one point allowed subscribers to watch a movie per day for a ridiculously low monthly fee—burned through millions of dollars and […]

Kelly Reichardt is one of contemporary cinema’s great filmmakers. The director of indie hits like Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, and Night Moves, critics have labeled her modern portraits of the West—even the bumbling pioneers in First Cow felt revisionist—as feminist, minimalist, and slow. However, fans of her work will tell you every pregnant pause, […]