Editor's Note: While we work on our play by play of the Seattle International Film Festival's opening night please enjoy our feature review of the opening night film: Battle in Seattle.

Walking into a film with no buzz on it is a particularly worrisome thing. When I first read about Battle In…

As a boy growing up in Olive Branch, Mississippi I never imagined there was a place that felt the same way I did about film. Sure, I had inclinations that there were pockets out there that shared a similar love. For instance, I took in a grand showing of Gone With the Wind (complete with…

On rare occasions in this business you get handed a direct-to-video film that exceeds your every expectation. It breaks the mold of convention and clearly found itself abandoned by the studios because they just didn't get it. Whether ahead of its time, too extreme for even the most bloodthirsty of…

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Dinner and Driving (1997)
Director: Lawrence Trilling
Starring: Lawrence Trilling, Joey Slotnick, Brigitte Bako, Nadia Dajani, Molly Shannon
Studio: Vanguard Cinema…

Usually, when a critic receives a screener for a film prior to theatrical release, the DVD comes with a long list of restrictions. The distribution company maintains an extensive database of who's received it and when, often by serial number, just so someone's legally liable in case pirated copies…

One of my very favorite undistributed films of the year, Murder Party, indeed found a distributor with my new hero Magnolia Pictures. Released as the freshman title of the new brand, Magnet Films, this charming little indie hits stores this week and folks can take a gander at it for the first time…