Every year I scale back a little more and a little more on reviews and movie coverage. At this point, I barely cover wide, mainstream releas...

It’s time once again for one of our favorite events of the year, Fantasia Fest, also known as the world’s largest genre film festival. Runni...

Wait, it’s been a year already? I guess that’s what happens when time loses all meaning. The good news, however, is that since a year has pa...

This is the place where I was going to make a crack about how it’s spring and of course what we really want to do is spend a beautiful weeke...

Well, it’s that time of year again in Seattle. Spring is in full swing, the weather’s getting better, so what other decision is there than t...

With the proliferation of COVID-19 vaccines and at least some people caring enough about their fellow humans to take it, in-person events li...

When you hear the phrase “lip-synching scandal,” you can be forgiven for immediately thinking of Milli Vanilli. That’s...

COVID-19 has laid waste to the movie industry. Hell, it basically cancelled movies big and small for the foreseeable future, both thea...

This is an updated version of an earlier review. High atop a remote mountain, a cadre of eight teenagers with names like Rambo, Smurf...

For the first time I have the opportunity to cover the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal. Well, sort of. I’m coveri...

Sure, it’s spring, but the Seattle weather edged towards the crappy side. So there weren’t any pangs of guilt about lawns left un-mowed...

It’s that time of year again. That time where, in Seattle anyway, a bunch of like-minded horror enthusiast weirdos spe...

Gun violence is an epidemic in this country. Scarcely a day goes by where we don’t hear about a shooting of one sort or another. Mass f...

Fans of classic Twilight Zones may want to put Andrew Patterson’s The Vast of Night on their radar. The throwback sci-fi mystery filt...

If you anticipate a certain level of absurdity in a horror-comedy from the guys most known for writing and directing a movie called Zom...

One-night-that-changes-everything is a familiar cinematic narrative, especially in the lives of young people. Not the most original set...

Concert movies are a documentary staple, from classics like Woodstock and The Last Waltz to modern takes like Justi...

All kinds of wacky shenanigans and general mayhem happen over the holidays as old friends, now scattered to winds, return to thei...

Documentaries take many forms. They play with constraints and push the bounds of what the genre can do, shine a light on injustice or ...

We’re somehow already deep into January 2019. I don’t know how that happened, but I do know that means the year in film festivals is abo...