AltWeeklies Wire
Hip-Hop Hungarians Threaten President Bushnew
Since, outside of South Park, cartoons and politics generally don't mix, The District is a bold, vulgar treat, full of hip-hop serenades, dancing Russian hookers, international intrigue, and all manner of goofs on the ghetto culture we've exported so successfully to the Wild East.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Aron Gauder, The District
'Apart From That': Like Cassavetes in Skagit Countynew
The film makes a jumbled democracy of its rustic players; refreshingly, there's not a mumbling hipster among them.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-02-2007 |
Reviews
Again With Miserable Africanew
Angels takes an intimate, unstinting, ground's-eye view of the biological and social diseases ravaging Africa, making public-policy debate about AIDS in Africa seems distant and esoteric.
Seattle Weekly |
Huan Hsu |
10-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Angels in the Dust, Louise Hogarth
Houston, We Have an Environmental Problemnew
The twist on this familiar astronaut story is that it's a post-Al Gore doc, itself in the shadow of An Inconvenient Truth.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-25-2007 |
Reviews
'Rocket Science': Where Twee Meets Dweebynew
It's another twee coming-of-age flick that appeals to the trucker-hat-and-bell-bottom set but never pulls its head out of the suburban lawn.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeffrey Blitz, rocket science
'Vitus': High IQ Plus Even Higher Fructosenew
The film belongs to what might be called the Euro-cute school of cinema, and its few tolerable scenes mock continental pieties toward culture and family.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-06-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Vitus, Fredi M. Murer
'June & July': Bored (But Not Boring) Twins With a Secretnew
The jolting finale forces a conclusion on plot strands that, like the titular siblings, prove fundamentally incompatible.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
07-23-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brady Hall, June & July
'Manufactured Landscapes': Why Your iPhone Is Destroying the Environmentnew
If the theme to this documentary is how we reshape nature to suit industry, one of the more eloquent and damning images is simply that of a female factory worker's hands rendered in close-up.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
07-16-2007 |
Reviews
'Joshua': Parenthood as a Literal (Yet Funny) Horror Shownew
The baby's incessant crying, the mother's nervous collapse, the father's bewildered reaction, the boy mysteriously popping up behind them at night -- Joshua makes parenthood itself into a horror movie.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
07-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: George Ratliff, Joshua
'Walking to Werner': Director Becomes Long-Distance Herzog Stalkernew
In more than one sense, this film is an act of endurance.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
07-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Linas Phillips, Walking to Werner
'Eagle vs. Shark': A Wonderfully Weird, Wry Romancenew
Kiwis find love in all the wrong places.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
06-25-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Eagle vs. Shark, Taika Waititi
A Rare Glimpse of Kurt Cobain in Happier Timesnew
This documentary is a meditative, impressionistic look at how our region helped shape such a unique individual.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J Barr |
06-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: AJ Schnack, About A Son
'Zoo': Tabloid Tale Turns Into Mushy Plea for Tolerancenew
Here is a movie that consents to leave unexamined what its persecuted male subjects would not confront in themselves.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
05-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Robinson Devor, zoo
Delightfully Accuratenew
For a movie about rock 'n' roll, this 2005 Japanese film-festival darling makes rebellion as demure as the tidy black bows on the schoolgirl uniforms of Kei and her insta-bandmates.
Seattle Weekly |
Rachel Shimp |
01-02-2007 |
Reviews
The Deity and Daniel Smithnew
Since there can be no Behind the Music–style backstage debauchery here ("Hey, quit praying with my Bible!"), the only narrative impetus Aronson can apply to this bland, loving clan is that of rivalry between Smith and his protege, Sufjan Stevens.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
12-18-2006 |
Reviews
