Ich Hunger, the new film by Tacoma local, Isaac Olsen, is a doozy of a thing to explain. As has always been the case with Olsen's previous works - as seen in the 72-Hour Film Festival, as well as in his debut feature length riff on film noir, Quiet Shoes
IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.' With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of view, the documentary te
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the co
As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of p
The concept of a "new face" entering a medium - whether it be comedy, music or, in this case, film - can be something of a misnomer. Or the idea promises more than it can deliver. We hope that those deciding which faces are newest are not too reactionary or
Look, I watch a lot of bad movies for fun. I know it's ultimately a shallow pursuit, and I am still mad at myself for missing almost all of the Best Picture nominees of last year, but - ever since my peak of intense movie-watching, when I was working as
Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) crosses paths with a woman from his past (Cruz), and he's not sure if it's love -- or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen
There are eight million stories in the City of Destiny. This is one of them. In February of 2006, Isaac Olsen got together with Kurt Kendall and Dale Phillips of Girl Trouble at a deserted farmhouse in Orting. They had broken into the house for their first day
Rango is not a children's movie. It is a bizarre, surreal, violent, frightening and stunningly vivid entry in the increasingly legitimized digitally animated film genre.
Valerie (Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter (Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are p
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find t
An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.