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Seattle Film Critics Society: 2025 Awards Nominees

Seattle Film Critics Society: 2025 Awards Nominees

The Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) has announced nominations for the 2025 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners ties the all-time record for most nominations in a single year with 14, matching 2022’s Everything Everywhere All At Once. Close behind with 12

Marty Supreme: Manifest Destiny

Marty Supreme: Manifest Destiny

Josh Safdie's films largely traffic in the wake of the American dream, or about the way that the promise of this country eventually sands us all down into aberrant messes adrift in a sea of post-capitalist chaos. Over time, the focus has shifted and narrowed to be directed

One Battle After Another: The Revolution Will Put You in the Driver's Seat

One Battle After Another: The Revolution Will Put You in the Driver's Seat

The immediacy of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is met only by its steadfast refusal to place itself on any specific timeline, instead existing in an anachronistic permanent space of modernity where very little has changed over the course of sixteen years. It is both reflective

Weapons: Where Is Everybody?

Weapons: Where Is Everybody?

It's happening right beneath our feet. A nascent, permeating reality, a fog of unease drifting through a desolate suburbia. Seeking answers in an irrational world, desperate for a salve for the grief but refusing to acknowledge the world around you. Pulling weeds without removing the roots. Violence spills

Fantasia 2025: Garo: Taiga - The Return of the King

Fantasia 2025: Garo: Taiga - The Return of the King

Tokusatsu as a genre feels like the last bastion of creative cinematic irreverence, a space where the rules can constantly be reinvented, where franchises are little more than loose guidelines to make weird, wacky chaos. Few filmmakers exemplify this guerilla approach like Keita Amemiya, whose prolific career in the tokustatsu

28 Years Later: The Heavens Fall, But Still We Crawl

28 Years Later: The Heavens Fall, But Still We Crawl

How many hundreds of years have we fallen this time? The apocalypse as cultural time dilation, decades sanding down the thin line of civility that once separated us from the monsters ravaging the landscape. Isolation has destroyed us, the bridges we once built to unite us across great distances now

Fantasia Retro 2025: Reconstructing the Past

Fantasia Retro 2025: Reconstructing the Past

The retrospectives and restorations category of any film festival is always a treat, bringing new life to old favorites or resurfacing hidden gems from decades past. Restoration work is critical to the preservation, archival, and history of cinema, allowing us to ensure culturally important works are preserved in the best