Archive for June, 2007

That Thing’s just plain Sicko!

By laird ⋅ June 30, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

A few movie recommendations for your pre-4th of July weekend: Sicko & The Thing double feature.
Michael Moore’s Sicko opened yesterday around the country to varying responses. You get everything from the obvious blind-hatred and an impassioned personal vendetta from the internet naysayers to overwhelmingly positive responses from professional critics. The main criticisms, such as the …

911 and Typecast Giveaway!

By madamecrow ⋅ June 29, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

The critically acclaimed/Academy Award nominated/locally produced documentary Iraq In Fragments arrives on DVD July 10th. The folks over at Typecast Releasing have teamed up with the 911 Media Arts Center (the film was edited and otherwise worked there) to give away a FREE 911 membership AND $250 to use towards the workshop(s) of your choice. …

Bad Spock Drawings

By swellzombie ⋅ June 24, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

So there’s a site dedicated to Bad Spock Drawings. Here’s just a few of the gems that I was able to get from the employee’s over the weekend.
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Cinema is NOT dead, yet.

By b.rad ⋅ June 22, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

 Children of Men : “Only films like this can guarantee that cinema as art will really survive”  That’s a quote from Zizek and if you’re unfamiliar with him, then check out his film, Perverts Guide to the Cinema and the self-titled documentary, ZIZEK.
If you haven’t seen Children of Men yet, why wait to be told …

Overheard in the Scarecrow office…

By madamecrow ⋅ June 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Staff member #1–”Hey, how much did our instructional didgeridoo DVD cost?”
Staff member #2–”Which one?”
Further investigation shows we only have one instructional didgeridoo DVD (so far!), but that’s one more than a lot of rental stores.
Hat tip (or thank you or whatever the proper blogspeak is) to the folks at the SLOG, who sometimes post “Overheard …

Look What’s Talking!?

By laird ⋅ June 21, 2007 ⋅ 5 comments

I just realized that there are several movies about talking genitalia.
Some say cinema is the seventh art (presumably they mean after cooking, krunking, wrasslin’, eating, napping, and Tetris). And what more beautiful way to celebrate the human condition and express the intangible than by writing and directing a film about talking hoo-hoos and chatty no-nos.
On …

Get lucky at the Grand Illusion!

By laird ⋅ June 20, 2007 ⋅ One comment

You have exactly one night left to catch a young Malcolm McDowell in Lindsay Anderson’s classic paean to freedom and youth, If…. My friends have described it as everything from a “magic-less Harry Potter” to “weird.” I say it’s magnificently constructed, and though it is most certainly a product of a very specific time and …

Visit our post-SIFF section

By madamecrow ⋅ June 20, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

The 2007 Seattle International Film Festival is over and hopefully by now you’ve had a good sleep, your bloodshot eyes have returned to their normal state, and the circulation has returned to your extremities. Good. Now you’re ready to watch more movies.
Stop by and visit our post-SIFF rental section! Some of the titles you may …

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