The Egyptian has long been known for playing a wide variety midnight movies, and a big-screen midnight dose of Christopher Nolan's classic Memento should be a fun, twisty ride for those who love to watch tangled-up plotlines in the wee hours of the morning. If you only know Nolan as the director behind a couple of the best action movies of the last couple years (The Dark Knight, Inception) you can definitely check out where Nolan first started with his complex, inside-out plotlines. The basic plot of the movie follows a man solving a mystery who has happens to have no short-term memory. The film also makes use of a pretty awesome plot device, where you actually see half of the film's scenes in reverse order. more ›

We're always looking for the most interesting films to check out around the city each and every week. This week, we have a screening of one of the landmark films in cinema history at the Egyptian, the start of the 15th annual Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and more excellent horror movies at The Grand Illusion. more ›

For the film history crowd, the show of the night is at Northwest Film Forum, where tonight's showing of Rebel Without a Cause will be introduced by the film's screenwriter, Stewart Stern. And if that's not good enough for you... well, that just seems kind of ungracious -- but you can still get more Stern tomorrow when NWFF hosts an afternoon of discussion with him. Tickets here. more ›

Christmas Day is for watching movies in the theater while all the suckers who love their kids and don't spend the holidays scrapping with their loved ones are at home, cooking hams and opening stockings and shooting BB guns and the like. While they're all otherwise occupied with merriment, you have a golden opportunity to catch all sorts of movies in that rarest of cinematic environs - a theater full of people who just want to watch the damned movie. more ›

EARLY DISMISSAL: All over the Puget Sound, schools are releasing their charges early today, in celebration of Thanksgiving so teachers can drink their way through an entire happy hour. If you have kids, make a special point to pick them up on time--letting them fend for themselves is one thing in spring, but it's cold out. Also, and we speak from personal experience, they take being forgotten at school personally. more ›

MONSTER MASH: Everyone's favorite non-robotic, non-dinosar body of awesome, a.k.a. the ferocious, hard-banging electronica/hiphop group Truckasaurus, is playing at Neumos with Head Like A Kite and Slender Means on Saturday. Heads up--Truckasaurus might be a band and not a car-eating machine, but they can still metaphorically smash your face in with their thumping, crunching, stomping version of music. It's beautiful, too. Imagine that! more ›

The end is near! You're running out of chances to stand in line for a SIFF film, so if you haven't yet, get on it. Things wrap up this weekend. In the meantime, here's the rundown on our picks for today through Thursday. It's quite a week. For all SIFF screenings, the general/member ticket prices are $11/$9 (and matinees $8/$7), except for gala screenings and other special events, which cost more. more ›