With it being the holidays and all, this Tuesday is pretty light on stuff to do. But fret not, we were still able to dig something up.
Can't Miss It: Tuesday
Can't Miss It: Monday
Only five days until Christmas; you're either all set with your holiday shopping and on to planning for the actual day, or you're running around like mad trying to get everything done. In any scenario, doesn't taking a little break from the madness seem called for? There's plenty of time for stressing later in the week; do something else for a change.
This Week in Seattle Cinema: It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Such and Such
Here are some Seattle cinema happenings that may put a bright gold star on top of your frenzied denominational holiday preparation... or simply help you survive it.
Can't Miss It: Wednesday
A cult movie classic, a pioneer of stoner hip hop, and a drag queen singing Christmas carol parodies. Yeah, it's a quirky Wednesday night.
This Week in Seattle Cinema: Fun For The Whole Family
Here are a few offbeat, but family-friendly movies playing this week that should help you through the first round of the holiday season.
This Week in Seattle Cinema: A Terrible Urge
Here are three films playing in Seattle this week that will help you blot out the rising sun of baby vampires and supernatural codependency.
Can't Miss It: Tuesday
Today: Vote! And also: a not-so-typical music experience at the Fremont Abbey, oil and politics in Alaska, and MovieCat Trivia.
This Week in Seattle Cinema: A Beautiful Lull in Holiday Programming
With the exception of an inexplicable 3D, Christmas-themed installment in the Harold and Kumar series, this week is a welcome break between holiday programming. Take this nice little vacation between Halloween pandering and Thanksgiving premieres and head down to your local theater before family obligations require you to go to the Cineplex.
This Week In Seattle Cinema: Take in a Classic
This week, keep holy the slow death of celluloid with any of these three fascinating relics of the silver screen.
Can't Miss It: Monday
Your options for Monday evening include a couple of variations on macabre senses of humor, and one of them a cult comedy classic from 1988 that helped to launch a number of careers.
Can't Miss It: Monday
With only three weeks to go before Halloween, it's only natural that two of our choices for this evening have a strong spooky or horrific angle. The third heralds the arrival of a cult synth pop legend who will be speaking at the Triple Door this evening. Really, you can't lose.
Can't Miss It: Monday
Tonight the Electric Six hit Neumos, the Central Cinema shows an American crime classic, and the folks at WET share their gently absurd coming of age story. There's nothing good on TV anyway, may as well get out of the house.
Can't Miss It: Monday
Lurid camp at the Central Cinema, Peter Gabriel in 3D and the Thievery Corporation playing at The Moore Theater; this Monday is pretty awesome, get out and enjoy it.
This Week in Seattle Cinema: Put Away The Bumbershoot Edition
Another year means another chance for the Greater Seattle area to devolve into a sweaty, lumbering mass of sharp elbows and screaming children, all so we can pay upwards of thirty dollars to get into a Seattle landmark that would be totally free any other weekend of the year. I'm talking of course about Bumbershoot, which you should totally bail on for one of the following exciting, reasonably priced films.
Can't Miss It: The Weekend
The 41st annual Bumbershoot kicks off tomorrow, The Big Lebowski settles into the cinema, and the Nu Klezmer Army takes over the Moon, all this weekend!
Can't Miss It: Tuesday
What have you got planned? Because our calendar is full, with a lady and her man named Brady, speed dating, and a little networking, for good measure.
Can't Miss It: Monday
Abstract sketch comedy; some of the worst Sci Fi dreck from the 80s; and it's Ms. Jackson if you're nasty, all on offer Monday night in Seattle.
Can't Miss It: Tuesday
Tonight: Dreamboat Joseph Gordon-Levitt, mountain survival stories, and cats asking movie trivia.
Can't Miss It: Monday
Today in Seattle: Free lunches, romantic comedies by literary greats, Angelina Jolie's thrilling dial-up adventures and the perverse genius of Collide-O-Scope.
This Week in Seattle Cinema: AA+ Edition
This is a very good week for Seattle cinema. It's not the best, but as we carry on deeper into the 21st Century and the perilous unknown, it's of the utmost importance that we appreciate what we have.
Can't Miss It: Wednesday
What's on tap this Wednesday evening? You could get megalomaniacal at El Corazon; partake of enjoyable cheese at the Central Cinema; or cheer on our Sounders past the challengers from Panama. And before that all gets going, take a long lunch and march yourself down to South Lake Union for cupcakes and creole.
Seattle Cinema Round-Up: Stay Out Of The Sun Edition
The sun may be shining over Seattle for another 15 minutes or so, but don't fret! Local agoraphobics still have plenty of options.
Can't Miss It: Monday
Tonight you could see the darker side of Jim Henson, find out more about sharks than footage of them jumping through the air could teach you, or watch a televangelist match wits with a British estate owner. Who knew Mondays could be so action-packed?
Can't Miss It: Tuesday
You've geeked out over Harry Potter's grand finale--now put your knowledge to the trivial test. Or, you know, indulge in some inspirational words with slam poetry at Re-Bar.
Can't Miss It: Monday
One of the worst movies of the 20th Century, random inquisitiveness and the opportunity to find the sublime within the absurd are all at your disposal this evening.
Seattle Cinema Round-Up: 7/15-7/22
You probably don't need Seattlest to tell you that, this weekend, Harry Potter is going to make an amount of money so gargantuan that lesser blockbusters will cling to it for warmth. That being said, there are a lot of other exciting, unwizardly things going on in two-dimensional spaces all throughout Seattle. Every week, this column will highlight some intriguing films from local theaters with a more daring or iconoclastic outlook to their programming.
Can't Miss It: Tuesday
What are you doing tonight? Catch a parade of Lions as they descend on downtown. Or, you can head to Central Cinema for the purrfect pub quiz.

