Category: Film

23 Nov

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North Koreans invade Spokane, xenophobia invades box office

by · November 23, 2012 · 3 Comments

A North Korean army (or is it Chinese?)  invades Spokane in the remake of Red Dawn, opening this weekend. (Photo by Sarah Stuteville)

A sunny morning in Spokane — shaggy green lawns, puffy clouds and compact SUVs parked outside of 100-year-old houses. Then a boom, a rattling snow globe featuring the Space Needle and the blue sky fills with white parachutes. The North Koreans have just invaded Washington state. To children of the ’80s this might sound vaguely [...]

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10 Nov

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Couch Fest 2012: Global film couched In fun

by · November 10, 2012 · 0 Comments

Couch Fest volunteers. (Photo courtesy of Couch Fest)

Couch Fest 2012 is today! It’s a festival of short films screened in the houses of total strangers, in cities all around the world, including Seattle. The concept is simple: neighbors invite you in to watch shorts in their home, on their cozy couch. It sounds just like inviting your friends over to watch youtube, [...]

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31 Oct

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Foreign zombie flicks dish up a twisted buffet of awesome

by · October 31, 2012 · 0 Comments

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Run for your life folks, zombies are everywhere. It’s Halloween night, and if you haven’t made your costume yet, take a cue from some chilling foreign zombie flicks and you’ll be the undead life of the party. The American zombie scene has been saturated with zombie flicks that just look, and bite, the same. Sure, classics [...]

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25 Oct

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Family ties defy the Israeli-Palestinian divide in ‘The Other Son’

by · October 25, 2012 · 0 Comments

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Babies accidentally switched at birth. From Mark Twain to the ABC Family Monday night lineup, it’s a familiar plot device – and a usually a pretty cheesy one. But French director Lorraine Levy successfully adopts this clichéd premise in her third feature film, The Other Son, which opens Friday at the Egyptian Theatre. Levy delivers a [...]

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02 Oct

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Half the Sky: half humanitarian heroics, half celebrity ego trip

by · October 2, 2012 · 9 Comments

Actress Olivia Wilde hangs at the Umoja Women's Village in Kenya as part of Half the Sky. (Photo via Jessica Chermayeff/PBS)

Newsflash: being a woman is surreal. Last night I was supposed to be at the gym. So I could look slimmer and prettier or something. But I had a headache. So I stayed on the couch, stumbled across human dolls on Facebook (seriously?!), and tuned in to the much-trumpeted nationwide premier of Half the Sky. [...]

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