The Italian film series at SIFF ended on a light note with this multi-character interwoven romantic comedy.  Sorta like Crash but with all the negative stuff taken out.  Oh, sure there is the stalker ex-boyfriend copy threatening to injure the new...

The final night of the New Italian Cinema Festival at SIFF Cinema was very solid.  Two very different movies, one serious and one fun and both delivered for me on their promise.  First up was the deadly serious The Italian Girl.  The director was in...

Earlier today I was going through the blog to put together a list of all the movies I've seen so far in theaters in 2009. That's my precursor to trying to pick a top 10 list for 2009 - though usually I end up with a top 15-20, numbers are so...

Yes, that is a creepy promo photo. Let's get that out of the way up front.  But he doesn't look like that through the entire film so it's tolerable.  :-) This is based on the true story of a socially aware French street clown who ends up in Romania. ...

The House in the Clouds had the misfortune in my mind of both sounding like something Sandra Bullock would star in and sitting between me and the midnight screening of New Moon.  On a different day I think it's entirely possible I would have loved this...