Hillbilly Elegy (2020 | USA | 120 minutes | Ron Howard) J.D. Vance is a venture capitalist who got his first job …
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A Chef’s Voyage will make you miss eating in restaurants, if you let it
A Chef’s Voyage (2020 | USA | 90 minutes | Remi Anfosso) There’s something uniquely satisfying about watching people who are extremely …
Dr. Dorothy Lewis finds sympathy for the devil in Alex Gibney’s Crazy, Not Insane
(2020 | USA | 115 minutes | Alex Gibney) Alex Gibney’s newest documentary, his second this fall, is an important contribution to …
Come Away tells the story of Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan before they were fun
(2020 | USA | 95 minutes | dir: Brenda Chapman) Come Away purports to be a colorblind telling of the origin stories …
TSB interview: The Climb‘s breakout stars talk about their indie hit
(2019 | USA | 95 minutes | dir: Michael Angelo Covino) The Climb was a movie that I thought would be a …
Right-wing creeps and gullible fools beware, Borat is back, baby!
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020 | USA | …
The Trial of the Chicago Seven gives nervous liberals a chance to feel hopeful before the election
The Trial of the Chicago Seven (2020 | USA | 130 minutes | Aaron Sorkin) I don’t think there’s a television program …
PREVIEW: Seattle Queer Film Festival celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary starting Thursday
I said it once before but it bears repeating: the Seattle Queer Film Festival is one of the best-programmed mini-festivals in the …
Watch Gloria Steinem epically shut down the haters with one weird movie
The Glorias (2020 | USA | 137 minutes | dir: Julie Taymor) The first scene of The Glorias, a regrettable biopic from …
Athlete A is a moving, but incomplete, story of sports’ biggest (and very worst) scandal
Athlete A (2020 | USA | 105 minutes | Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk) It seems hardly fair that after ESPN gave us …