THE IMPOSSIBLE
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 114 minutes |
Several days after the screening, I still can’t wash away the film’s awful images of bodies bouncing down liquid obstacle courses teeming with swaying power-lines, propane tanks, and pick-up trucks…
Posted on January 9, 2013 by KJ Doughton
STARLET
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 103 minutes |
With subtle, persuasive grace, “Starlet” suggests that human connection can both rejuvenate the most embittered of spirits, and anchor the most rootless of souls…
Posted on January 3, 2013 by KJ Doughton
PUSHING HIS LUCK: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER LUIS PRIETO
Luis Prieto’s “Pusher” will encourage you to pay off your Master Card… pronto…
Posted on October 31, 2012 by KJ Doughton
“REEL TERROR” – INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR DAVID KONOW
With “Reel Terror,” Konow assembles the skin, bones, and viscera of horror’s hundred-year onscreen history, and doesn’t miss a bloody stitch…
Posted on October 8, 2012 by KJ Doughton
PEAK PERFORMANCE: INTERVIEW WITH CHAD JUKES ON “HIGH GROUND”
PORT TOWNSEND FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! “High Ground” is an emotional metronome of a film, swaying between the horror of combat and the staggering beauty of high-altitude vistas…
Posted on September 22, 2012 by KJ Doughton
KILLER JOE
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: NC-17 Running Time: 103 minutes |
“Killer Joe” fails by trying to be all perversions to all people. It’s darkly funny, uncomfortably cringe-worthy, goofy again, then jarringly brutal…
Posted on July 9, 2012 by KJ Doughton
SIFF 2012: SEASONAL AFFECTIVE CINEMA, PART 5: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN
As the Seattle International Film Festival draws to a close, William Friedkin – the maverick who invented contemporary car chases and demonic horror – would seem the ideal filmmaker to conjure forth the event’s Grand Finale…
Posted on June 13, 2012 by KJ Doughton
SIFF 2012: SEASONAL AFFECTIVE CINEMA, PART 4
The 2012 Seattle International Film Festival, a magical, mind-expanding, eye-feeding carpet ride for those fond of falling deep into moving-picture hypnosis, continues into its third amazing week…
Posted on June 7, 2012 by KJ Doughton
SIFF 2012 – SEASONAL AFFECTIVE CINEMA, PART 3
So far, I’ve surfed through only three of the 13 theaters participating in SIFF, and already seen truly magnificent stories (“Eden”) as well as pompous drivel (“Dreams of a Life”). It’s all good, even if it’s bad…
Posted on May 30, 2012 by KJ Doughton
SIFF 2012: SEASONAL AFFECTIVE CINEMA, PART 2: “EDEN”
Each year, there’s a SIFF movie that knocks my socks off and resonates long into the summer. For SIFF 2012, it’s “Eden,” a troubling stunner…
Posted on May 27, 2012 by KJ Doughton
SIFF 2012: SEASONAL AFFECTIVE CINEMA
Skies are so oppressively black, it seems a strange, novel oddity when the sun actually does peek through. So why does 2012’s Seattle International Film Festival further enhance the drizzle, with so much celluloid sadness and digital despair? Forget SAD. This is Seasonal Affective Cinema…
Posted on May 23, 2012 by KJ Doughton
HEADHUNTERS
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 100 minutes |
Calling all flick-freaks who share a venomous contempt for arrogant yuppie scum! “Headhunters,” Morten Tyldum’s Norwegian nerve-jangler, is cause for vindictive celebration…
Posted on May 1, 2012 by KJ Doughton
THE RAID: REDEMPTION
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 101 minutes |
“The Raid” is a perfectly calibrated, precision-made machine – the Swiss Watch of shoot-out films…
Posted on April 9, 2012 by KJ Doughton
DAYBREAK: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKERS DON ARGOTT AND DEMIAN FENTON
Via telephone transmission from Pennsylvania to Tacoma, this flourishing filmmaking team explains that despite the miles worn by both their subject and his band, “Last Days Here” prefers to embrace the future and not wallow in the past…
Posted on April 4, 2012 by KJ Doughton
LAST DAYS HERE
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
Curators of aging vinyl discs, demo tape cassettes, and fading concert shirts will instantly identify with Pelletier’s devotion to a troubled heavy metal hero…
Posted on March 21, 2012 by KJ Doughton