November 2014 Reviews

Cover art from Meatbodies' In the Red debut

These are the
reviews and
other pieces
I'm working
on this month.

The Stranger Film Openings: Diplomacy: What It Takes to Convince a Nazi Not to Blow Up Paris, The Theory of Everything: Biopic of Stephen Hawking Plays It Safe, Too Safe, and Pulp: A Doc About a Britpop Band That’s Better Than Blur.

Slog/Film Opening count: 575 posts/reviews since 2011. 

The Stranger Up & Comings: Frankie Rose/Cold Beat/Ephra-
ta, Gruff Rhys/Willis Earl Beal, and Twin Peaks/Meatbodies.

Video Librarian: Boobs, Breastmilk, Finding Fela!, Inher-
itance, Me, the Vinyl and the Rest of the World, Ocean Keep-
er, When I Walk, Alabama & Friends at the Ryman, The Lan-
guage of the Unknown - A Film About the Wayne Shorter 
Quartet, Lilting, Wetlands, and Abuse of Weakness.



Image from In the Red. Art by Tatiana Kartomten.

October 2014 Reviews

Shailene Woodley and Christopher Meloni in White Bird in a Blizzard

These are the 
reviews and 
other pieces 
I'm working 
on this month.

The Stranger Film Openings: The Zero Theorem: The Weirdness Accumulates in Terry Gilliam's Latest, White
Bird in a Blizzard: Suburban Life Without Mom, and Young
Ones: A Dystopian Tussle Over a Robotic Donkey.

Slog/Film Opening count: 572 posts/reviews since 2011.

The Stranger Up & Comings: Perfume Genius, Court-
ney Barnett/San Fermin, and Frankie Rose/Cold Beat/Ephrata. 

Video Librarian: For a Woman, Freak Jazz, Movie Madness 
and Another Mothers - Frank Zappa 1969-1973, Money for No-
thing - A History of the Music Video, Nashville - The Complete 
Second Season [5-disc set], Grey's Anatomy - The Complete 10th 
Season [6-disc set], The Art of Observing Life, Globe Trekker - 
Central Japan, Looking for Johnny - Legend of Johnny Thunders.

Film still from Magnolia Pictures.

September 2014 Reviews

Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue in 20,000 Days On Earth

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

Slog: Miles of Style and Rivers of Blood in New Movie The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears, The Old Master Builder of Jonathan Demme's Ibsen Adaptation Faces His Final Challenge: A Young Woman, 20,000 Days on Earth: An Unconventional Documentary on Musician Nick Cave, Kristin Wiig Goes to a Dark Place in The Skeleton Twins, Tracks: A Woman Walks Across the Australian Outback, & Pacific Aggression.

Slog/Film Opening count: 569 posts/reviews since 2011.

The Stranger: U&C blurbs on Bear in Heaven/Young Magic,
the Aislers Set/Childbirth, Girl Trouble, and Thurston Moore.

Seattle Film Blog: Quasi-Fictional Documentary 20,000 Days
on Earth Imagines 24 Hours in the Life of Nick Cave.

Video Librarian: Captive Radio, Don’t Shout Too Loud, The
Naked Room, Off the Floor, State 194, Walter, Justin Hayward - 
Spirits... Live at the Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta [Blu-ray], Black-
bird, Country Roads - The Heartbeat of America [Blu], Golden Boy - The Complete Series [3-disc set], Swedish House Mafia - Leave the World Behind [Blu], Jay Johnson - The Two and Only!, and Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick Live in Iceland [Blu].

20,000 Days image from Drafthouse Films.  

August 2014 Reviews

Melvil Poupaud and Amanda Langlet in A Summer's Tale

These are 
the reviews 
and other 
pieces I'm 
working on 
this month.

Slog: The Best Sum-
mer Movie of 2014 Is from 1996, The Brazilian Documentary Elena Is an Exercise in Ex-
orcism, New Rye Coalition Documentary Is Filled with Big Riffs and Bad Breaks, Spanish Award-Winner Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed Opens Today, The True Story Behind Dog Day Afternoon Gets Its Own Stranger-Than-Fiction Documentary, Film Short: Level Five, Aubrey Plaza Will Eat Your Brain...If You Let Her,
and A Korean Moebius Strip of Infidelity and Vengeance.

 Line Out/Slog post count: 565 posts since 2011. 

The Stranger: U&C blurbs on Kevin Morby,  
Murder City Devils, Jack White, and METZ/Posse.

Video Librarian: Kismet [Blu-ray], The Last Days, Careful, He 
Might Hear You, EastSiders, Grigris, ZZ Top - Live at Montreux 
2013 [Blu], The Girls in the Band, Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for 
Democracy 3D: Live at Hard Rock Casino, Locked Down, Na-
ture - Bionic Pet, They Came Together [Blu], Sex Pistols on TV.

A Summer's Tale image from Big World Pictures. 
 

July 2014 Reviews

Nick Cave at the Paramount, 7/2/14

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.








Slog: The Criterion Collection's World Cup Promotion: A Fabulous Deal for Foreign Film Aficionados, You Better Run, You Better Take Cover: Bad Trip Australian Psychodrama Wake in Fright, Nick Cave Brought His Patented Jazz-Punk Vegas Act to the Para-
mount. And It Was Good, Building a Community Only to Watch It Fall Apart: Razing the Bar Documents the Final Days of the Fun-
house, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: An Interspecies Western Set in the Not-Too-Distant Future, Richard Linklater Reflects on Boyhood: "Everything in the Movie Is Somebody's Experience," Now Playing: Melvil Poupaud Brings Low-Key Charm to Éric Roh-
mer's Langorous Summer's Tale, A New Spanish Film About a Friendless Cannibal Opens this Friday at Northwest Film Forum, Swedish Duo Roll the Dice Releases a Stunning Video to Accom-
pany an Epic Song, and Chadwick Boseman in Get On Up.

Line Out/Slog post count: 557 posts since 2011.     

ProgDay!: the Sensations' Fix page includes an excerpt from my 
Line Out review of the Music Is Painting in the Air collection. 

The Stranger: U&C blurbs on Amen Dunes, Magik Mark-
ers, The Body/MTNS, and Woods/Steve Gunn/Foxygen.

Video Librarian: Anomaly, Growing Up Green, Living for 32, Neuromarketing - Programming the Brain to Buy, Outcasts - Surviving the Culture of Rejection, Suitcase of Love and Shame, Scott and Bailey - Season One [two-disc set], Every Everything - The Music, Life & Times of Grant Hart, B.B. King - The Life of Riley, Sarah Silverman - We Are Miracles, Vinyl, Half the Road - The Passion, Kid Cannabis [Blu-ray], O Samba, The Double, and Filth.

Photo from The Stranger's Brooklyn Benjestorf. 

June 2014 Reviews

Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater in Boyhood

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

Slog: A Few of the Visiting Actors and Directors (Including Two Local Ringers) at this Year's SIFF, Popping and Locking from Cambodia to Uganda in the Hip-Hop Documentary Shake the Dust, That's a Wrap: SIFF Concludes with Quincy Jones, Chris Messina, and Some Cool Shoes, Double Your Pleasure with Tom Hardy's New Film, The Dance of Reality: Chil-
ean Director Alejandro Jodorowsky's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Guy Pearce and Chris Evans Struggle with Machin-
ery and Hygiene in The Rover and Snowpiercer, The House of
the Devil Director Ti West Takes on a Cult in The Sacrament. The Cult Wins, and a nice shout-out from Paul Constant in this post. 

Line Out/Slog post count: 547 posts since 2011.

Portland Mercury: Up & Coming blurb on Lee Bains III.

Seattle Channel: Chris Estey interviewed me for Take 21.

(Unfortunately, this link is no longer alive.)

The Stranger: Up & Coming blurbs on Throwing Muses, 
Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires, Chad VanGaalen, Dean 
Wareham, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and Amen Dunes. 

Video Librarian: Call the Midwife - Season Three [Blu-ray 
set], Dio - Live in London: Hammersmith 1993 [Blu-ray], To-
to - Live in Poland: 35th Anniversary Tour [Blu-ray], ADHD 
Rush Hour, Field Biologist, Insights - Queer Youth Defining Our 
Future, Pad Yatra - A Green Odyssey, Suitcase of Love and 
Shame, Run & Jump, and My Father and the Man in Black.


Endnote: Boyhood still from IFC Films. Thought I might get to transcribe my interview with Richard Linklater this month, but I was wrong. I'll get around it prior to the film's July opening.  

May 2014 Reviews

Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader are The Skeleton Twins

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

SIFF Notes: The Case Against 8, The Dune, Life Feels Good, Medeas, Supermensch, The Skeleton Twins, and The Signal.

Slog: The Contradictory Couple in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive Are Neither Alone Nor Alive (also included in my list of April posts), Factual Death, Fictional Life, and the Associations That Result When the Two Intersect, Now Playing: A Documentary About the Invention of the Teenager, Taylor Kitsch Takes a Break from Big-Budget Action Movies to Try Something Different, Matt Smith Remembers the Capitol Hill of the 1960s in My Last Year with the Nuns, Richard Linklater: From Slacker to Boyhood, Documentary Stars at This Year's SIFF Include Susan Sontag, George Takei, and Bronies, and Vincent Kartheiser Leaves Pete Campbell Behind for a Trip to Antarctica with Olivia Thirlby in Red Knot.

Line Out/Slog post count: 540 posts since 2011.  
  
Video Librarian: Off the Rez, You, Me & Them - Series 1 [2-disc 
set], Brownian Movement, Call Me Crazy - A Five Film, The Rise 
& Fall of the Clash, Suzanne Vega Live Solitude Standing [Blu].

 

Endnote: Skeleton Twins still from Roadside Attractions/Lions-
gate. Wiig and Hader previously teamed up for Adventureland.