Theater round up for the last weekend in August

Hello and welcome to another not-as-summer-as-you’d-want-weekend in Seattle. We’re hoping the rain stays away for this weekend’s outdoor cinema events. Saturday night at the Mural Amphitheater in Seattle Center there’s the new STAR TREK starring recent birthday boy Chris Pine as James Tiberus Kirk.  On Friday at Cal Anderson Park there’s the last movie in …

Theatrical roundup for the August 13th weekend

Who cares how nice it is outside when there’s so many good movies to be seen inside nice air-conditioned theaters–not to mention the many movies and video games to be rented at nice air-conditioned independent video stores. Here’s some of what’s going on this weekend. Northwest Film Forum welcomes home THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF LITTLE …

Theatrical Round up for July 31st

Greetings and welcome to the last theater-going round up for July.  I apologize for the lack of rounding up last week, but I was out getting hitched to a swell fellow movie fan. Now that the wedding is over, we can get back to our regularly scheduled movie watching. This week’s theatrical schedule begins with …

Theatrical goings-on for the weekend of June 11th

Seattle’s yearly theater-going frenzy comes to a close as the SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL and SEATTLE’S TRUE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL wrap up this weekend.  SIFF’s home stretch includes the highly anticipated Midnight Adrenaline films TICKED-OFF  TRANNIES WITH KNIVES and ROBOGESHIA.  The fact that Bill Murray plays a “fast-talking funeral home owner” in the Closing Night …

Theatrical round up for 5/7

As you prepare for the sun-filled weekend, remember that Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 9th. If you need a last minute gift, head to Scarecrow. We’ve got plenty of movies for sale your mom might enjoy, such as the new edition of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO or the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy on Blu-ray or …

Weekend theater roundup 4/23

Our in-theaters weekend roundup begins at Northwest Film Forum with a special Earth Day themed film: Elia Kazan’s “mid-career masterpiece” WILD RIVER. This 1960 film stars Montgomery Clift as a Tennessee Valley Authority official who arrives in a small town on the brink of destruction from an impending flood and Lee Remick as a young …

Scarecrow Video will be all a buzz this weekend with our semi annual USED MOVIE SALE.  All of our used DVDs, Blu-ray, VHS & Laserdiscs are 50% OFF.  After you partake of the savings,  head out and take advantage of this weekend’s theatrical action We begin with the LANGSTON HUGHES AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL, which …

If you’re in downtown Seattle this weekend and wondering why every other person is dressed as a Studio Ghibli character, it’s because  SAKURA CON, the largest anime convention in the Pacific Northwest, is at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center. If you’ll be among the thousands converging upon the Con, please stop by our …