Seattle Film Guide April 23-29
Opening this Week
Exit Through the Gift Shop Bill White Reviews it for Seattle Post Globe
Terribly Happy Bill White Reviews it for Seattle Post Globe
Ajami "All that one can hope for is that tomorrow will be a brighter day." Charles Mudede, The Stranger
The Back-Up Plan Jennifer Lopez meets a potential human donor on the day of her scheduled artificial insemination.
The Losers "a busy, unsatisfying comic thriller, poorly acted by a grab-bag of new faces" Dan Kois, Seattle Weekly
Oceans "a jaw-dropper as a visual travelogue" Michelle Orange, Seattle Weekly
Limited Runs
The Square (Varsity, April 23-28) Bill White Reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
Some Like it Hot (Central Cinema. April 23-29) Bill White Reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
The Knack..and how to get it (Grand Illusion, April 23-29) Bill White Reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
When You’re Strange (Grand Illusion Cinema, Saturday April 24: 3 & 5pm, Sunday April 25: 3pm, 5pm, 7pm & 9pm) Bill White Reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
Wild River (NWFF, April 23-29) Lee Remick, one of the sexiest, most beautiful actresses of the sixties, tries to get some sparks going with cold fish Monty Cliff, but he is so addled with headaches that he can barely stay on his feet.
The Bug Trainer (NWFF, April 24-25) Documentary on Polish animator Ladislas Starewitch
Barbara Hammer in Person (NWFF, April 24) Clips from 40 years of experimental film as well as autobiographical anecdotes.
Special Programs:
Next Stop Rain City, The Films of Alan Rudolph (SIFF Cinema, April 23-25)
Remember My Name and Choose me (Fri, April 23)
Trouble in Mind and The Moderns (Sat, April 24)
Afterglow and Breakfast of Champions (Sun, April 25)
All programs are double features
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Continuing runs at area theatres:
Alice in Wonderland 3D Bill White reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
The Bounty Hunter Bounty hunter is hired to bring in his ex-wife.
City Island Bill White Reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
Clash of the Titans More thrilling 3D excitement
Date Night "a jumble of genres, tones, and styles, Date Night ultimately strains to be a serious movie about marriage, with one joke" Karina Longworth, The Weekly
Death at a Funeral American remake of 2007 British comedy featuring an African-American cast
Diary of a Wimpy Kid From the best-selling illustrated novel
The Eclipse "a curious Irish ghost story that fiddles with the recipe just enough to produce interesting results" Nick Pinkerton, Seattle Weekly
Formosa Betrayed "educational thriller set in early-80's Taiwan" Nicolas Rapold, Seattle Weekly
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Bill White Reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
Ghost Writer Roman Polanski directs this thriller based on the novel The Ghost by Robert Harris about a ghostwriter who, while completing the memoirs of former British Prime Minister, stumbles onto a dark secret.
The Greatest "an uneven but often affecting film that requires its gifted cast to push hard against the script's schematic plotting to find moments of real emotion" Chuck Wilson, The Weekly
Green Zone When is Jason Bourne not Jason Bourne? When he is Roy Miller
Greenberg "Greenberg changes very little over the course of the movie but the audience's perspective on him changes quite a bit." Alison Hallett, The Stranger
Hot Tub Time Machine "A fundamentally lazy comedy that will probably make you laugh like an idiot." Dan Kois, The Weekly
How to Train Your Dragon Put on your 3D Glasses and take careful notes.
The Hurt Locker Sean Axmaker review it for Seattle PostGlobe
The Joneses This project must have been in development for a long time, because today's happy suburban family is having a hard enough time keeping up with the phone bill, let alone the Joneses. Nevertheless, we have this movie, something of a comedy although it contains suicide, statutory rape, gay bashing, and other so-called "edgy" topics, that follows a fake family of product promoters into a wealthy neighborhood where they inspire a mass psychosis of unnecessary spending. The damage they do is considerable, but it all works out in the end so the audience can go home happy. Warning to those frightened by both the short and long term effects of plastic surgery: Demi Moore looks like she could be her own grand-daughter, while Lauren Hutton looks like an alien bug got into her teleporter by mistake and merged its DNA with hers.
Kick-Ass "a mess of random source cues and progressively brutal action set pieces" Karina Longworth, Seattle Weekly
The Last Song Based on best-selling novelist Nicholas Sparks' forthcoming novel, The Last Song is set in a small southern beach town where an estranged father (Greg Kinnear) gets a chance to spend the summer with his reluctant teenaged daughter (Miley Cyrus), who'd rather be home in New York. He tries to reconnect with her through the only thing they have in common—music—in a story of family, friendship, secrets and salvation, along with first loves and second chances. Directed by Julie Anne Robinson
Percy Jackson & Olympians: The Lightning Thief
The Runaways His Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for "Revolutionary Road" is a curse on Michael Shannon, who promised to be one of the top new leading men with his roles in "Bug" and "Shotgun Stories," and is now given to playing eccentrics, such as the scurrilous weirdo Kim Fowley in "The Runaways," which is a pretty good picture about the girl power new wavers led by Joan Jett, an under-rated force of rock and roll who deserves to be estimated in the same class as Lou Reed.
Shutter Island Bill White reviews it for the Seattle PostGlobe
A Single Man
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? Tyler Perry has kept his movies off limits to the press since the flood of negative reviews greeted his first effort, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman." Click here to read my 2005 Seattle PI review of that film. Although it only rated a C, this was one of the more positive reviews of the film. I haven't seen any of his subsequent pictures, but I assume we can expect more of his gospel music vaudeville with equal parts sin and salvation
The Warlords Bill White reviews it for Seattle PostGlobe
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