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You can buy tickets here for Feb. 16th - 8:00pm and here for Feb. 23rd - 8:00pm . Both links show "temporarily down" so t ry this if they still don't work . The showing is at AMC Pacific Place 600 Pine St. Seattle, WA 98101 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =iLlxvrXURoo Download the Free Soundtrack Experience the music of RE:GENERATION now at: Mark Ronson — Jazz — "A La Modeliste" (with Erykah Badu, Mos [...]

Chronicle With Chronicle , 2012 has its first great movie. It's easily the most exciting, watchable action/sci-fi film in months. What first-time director Josh Trank was able to accomplish on a shoe-string (at least by Hollywood standards) budget is so cool that it borders on unbelievable. The story will be familiar to most who have watched any superpower origin tale. More specifically, the script owes a great debt to pioneering 80's anime classic Akira . Three teenagers, one of them weaker, more socially awkward, and [...]

I went into Cave of Forgotten Dreams without knowing anything about it and enjoyed it so much I hesitate to say anything here aside from it's one of the most extraordinary and beautiful films I've ever seen. Werner Herzog's documentary literally explores the Chauvet Cave in Southern France, which holds the most ancient cave paintings [...]

This is the latest review of my all-time favorite films. In Bruges (2008) | DVD Blu-ray Instant Video In Bruges is a dark comedy about two hitmen who are forced to take a vacation in Bruges after a hit goes...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) As one of the four words in its title divulge, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is set in a covert intelligence agency. Based on a John Le Carre novel of the same name, the film takes...

Pina (2011) Two days before filming of this documentary was to begin, Pina Bausch, the German modern dancer and choreographer who is the subject of Pina, passed away. Director Win Wenders cancelled the production. The members of Bausch's Tanztheatre Wuppertal...

Another Earth (2011) | Blu-ray+DVD Instant Video Imagine that a new planet has suddenly been discovered. It is in our solar system. Actually, it's the closest planet to us, both in terms of physical distance and in similar qualities. It...

This is the latest review of my all-time favorite films. The Maltese Falcon (1941) | DVD Blu-ray Instant Video The Maltese Falcon is the directoral debut of John Huston, who began his Hollywood career as a screenwriter. The screenplay, also...

This is the latest review of my all-time favorite films. The Maltese Falcon (1941) | DVD Blu-ray Instant Video The Maltese Falcon is the directoral debut of John Huston, who began his Hollywood career as a screenwriter. The screenplay, also...

50/50 (2011) | DVD Blu-ray Screenwriter Will Reiser based 50/50 on his personal experience with spinal cancer. In the hands of director Jonathan Levine, the film is as realistic a view of the complex process of dealing with the mortal...

Midnight in Paris (2011) | DVD Blu-ray Instant Video Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris follows Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), a screenwriter working on his first novel, on vacation in Paris with his fiancée and her parents. He holds an idealistic...

So it turns out that the full, non-edited for television version of Christmas Vacation is a lot less appropriate for 5-year-olds, but we made it through the whole movie. MJ had many questions, like "why did he kidnap his boss" and "why would he want to go that fast on a sled" but in the end she enjoyed it: It was really funny. It is about a guy who just can't to anything right. [...]

This is the latest review of my all-time favorite films. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | DVD Instant Video Alfred Hitchcock reportedly considered Shadow of a Doubt his favorite of his own films. There is a lot to substantiate the...

Casablanca (1942) | DVD Blu-Ray Instant Video Casablanca is one of the most celebrated films of the studio system's golden era of Hollywood. It was shot in 10-weeks, nearly all in controlled sets. There was an attention to detail in...

Hugo I'm an enormous fan of well-made "kid movies," or as I like to think of them, movies for the uncynical and young at heart. I think one of the biggest reasons they appeal to me so much is that they cut to the core of things. Oftentimes, a coming-of-age or childlike film gets right down to who a filmmaker is at their essence. This happens more often when great writers and directors are at the helm of these movies. They feel very personal. That's one of the reasons why [...]

Hugo (2011) Martin Scorsese has been a champion of film restoration and a scholar of movie history. With Hugo, he tells a heartwarming family tale that is intertwined with the life and work of Georges Méilès, film's first master. It...

To be honest, I don't really enjoy the two critics Ebert picked for the show - Christy Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky - but the show itself feels like a cultural institution and to see it go off the air because Ebert has been funding it out of pocket would be a shame. "Unless we find an angel, our television program will go off the air at the end of its current season," he writes on his Chicago Sun-Times blog . "There. I've said it. Usually in television, people use evasive language. Not me. We'll be [...]

J. Edgar (2011) Director Clint Eastwood and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have created an objective portrait of a controversial character of modern American history, J. Edgar Hoover. The film follows Hoover's early days at the Justice Department through the formation...

November 2, 2011: Grauman's Chinese Theatre The premiere of the third installation of Harold & Kumar series, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, was a star studded event, bring out the movie's stars, like John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, and Amir Blumenfeld, and other notable names like Roselyn Sanchez, Chris Klein, Mena Suvari [...]

This is the latest review of my all-time favorite films. The Great Dictator (1941) | DVD Blu-ray After World War I, Charlie Chaplin was the biggest film star in the world, recognizable in nearly every country as the lovable Tramp....