Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller

Back to the Futurenew

The last Star Wars installment succeeds -- mainly by returning us to the first.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 05-18-2005 | Reviews

Tags: George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith

Lust for Lifenew

An ex-prisoner seeks revenge and love with equal fervor, but freedom has a surprise in store for him. And, yes, squid were harmed during the making of this film.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 04-20-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Park Chan-wook, Oldboy

A World Without Graynew

For purists, this comic-book adaptation is a marvel of hard-boiled fidelity. For outsiders, the bloodshed may be too black-and-white.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 03-30-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Sin City, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller

Hollywood's Gross Pointsnew

Three smart new books analyze movie giganticism. Bigger may not be better so far as viewers—and readers—are concerned, but it's definitely the future.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 03-30-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Various Titles, Various Authors

The Vampire's Cursenew

Woody Allen gives us two stories for the price of one. Don't we even get half the enjoyment value for our ticket?

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 03-23-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Woody Allen, Melinda and Melinda

Not-So-Foreign Exchangenew

Millions, an English import, makes charming use of a child's universal perspective.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 03-16-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Danny Boyle, Millions

How Gunner Palace co-director Michael Tucker, a former Army reservist, lived among the troops in Uday Hussein's old digs while they played video games, strummed guitars, improvised raps, and otherwise tried to blow off steam between dangerous patrols through Baghdad.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 03-09-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, Gunner Palace

Control Room's Flack Is Backnew

Out of uniform, military spokesperson Josh Rushing has plenty to say, with even more candor, about how the Iraq war is being reported.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 03-09-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Control Room, Jehane Noujaim

Out of Thin Airnew

The writer fell 15 feet while climbing in the North Cascades last summer, and might have died were it not for the people he met along the way.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 02-03-2005 | Recreation

Tags: recreation

Split Decisionnew

Clint Eastwood's boxing melodrama doesn't quite live up to its awards-season accolades. But Hilary Swank's effort is a steely knockout.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 01-05-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby

Top 10 List Recognizes Good Storytellingnew

Truth turned out to be less compelling than pure inventiveness in 2004, which explains the critic's No. 1 choice, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 01-03-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Various Directors, 2004, 2004's Best Films, yearinreview