Tonight: Movies, Christmas movies, and vegan cake + karaoke. more ›

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. more ›

There are any number of things you could be doing today, from taking your kids to visit Santa, to watching the trouble Jimmy Stewart has convincing the people around him that the tall rabbit he's talking about is real. A kind and gentle day, this Monday. more ›

Here are three awesomely bad films playing in Seattle theaters this week that you won't want to miss (although I can't properly articulate why). more ›

Things are kind of slow on the Monday before Thanksgiving, but what is happening is still pretty engaging. Among the offerings are two new documentaries on fascinating subjects, both products of the 80s: an intelligent and acerbic wit, and a ska/punk band that should have been bigger than they were. Also, closing night on one of the strangest plays of the year. more ›

Here are three perfectly valid reasons to keep yourself huddled up for warmth in a dark room through the dismal overcast. more ›

It's an exciting Monday night in Seattle, which features three different ways to thrill your inner geek: you could check out the music from The Muppet Show, enjoy the wrongness of politically incorrect Warner Brother cartoons, or go see John Hodgman at Town Hall. And you thought nothing was happening. more ›

Give in to the holiday spirit and catch any of the following three macabre delights. more ›

Here are three jarring films that are all but guaranteed to raise your blood pressure through the chilling October nights. more ›

This week, we cut through the filler, featuring a couple of intriguing standouts within the rollout of Seattle theaters' spookier autumn offerings, as well as your chance to see a screen classic in glorious 70mm. more ›

A quietly unassuming movie, intellectually engaging beginnings of theater and more information than you thought was available about the bean that makes our mornings complete; who says nothing happens on Monday? more ›

Here are some details as to where Drive is playing in Seattle, as well as a couple other movies that you can see (ONLY) after seeing Drive. more ›

This week, celebrate the renewed misery of countless teenagers with these two documentaries and a (kind of) historical thriller. more ›

Everyone is talking about The Decemberists out at the Marymoor Amphitheater, although there is also George Bernard Shaw at the Seattle Center and one of the trippiest movies ever in the U District, in case Redmond is too far away for you. more ›

Here are three international triumphs playing in Seattle this week that poignantly jog our sense of humanity's interconnectedness. more ›

The sun may be shining over Seattle for another 15 minutes or so, but don't fret! Local agoraphobics still have plenty of options. more ›

What's more American than loving art? Probably a lot of things. But if you're looking to skip the fireworks in favor of films, books an visual displays that still celebrate the Land of the Free, we've got you covered there, too. more ›

What's the plan for tonight? Try out some twee, listen to a sex-positive reading or catch a much-touted flick about a pair of yodeling twins. more ›

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 film to check out around the city each and every week. This week, we have a screening of Wayne's World for a good cause, an awesome biopic at the Northwest Film Forum, and free screenings of a comedy about terrorists. more ›

HITCHCOCK DOUBLE FEATURE: As a part of Revenge of All Monsters Attack!, the Grand Illusion will be showing a Hitchcock double feature with the all-time favorite horror films, The Birds and Frenzy tonight. Though many are familiar with The Birds, Frenzy is one of Hitchcock's later films; promising more explicit sex and violence as it details the "Necktie Murderer," who brutally kills and rapes women using--you guessed it-- a necktie. What would Halloween be with a little Hitchcock to get you warmed up? more ›

GET REAL: Musique conrete met its match in Matmos. It's possible no musicians better define the style of recording sounds from anything and everything other than an instrument and then manipulating the record by splicing and distorting and otherwise misshaping it. Though French composer Pierre Schaeffer first developed the style in the 1940s, musique concrete grew by leaps with the creation of electronic music and computer software. Matmos, long favorites of found sound enthusiasts, have used everything from the clips of surgical tools to the pages of turning bibles and electrical interference generated by laser eye surgery to make some of the most thoughtful and often times surprisingly melodic modern music. Tonight Matmos performs with the classical percussion quartet So Percussion, with which they have a collaborative album to be released in July. Also performing is Lexie Mountain Boys. more ›

CARTMAN JOINS NAMBLA: Dr. Mephisto is also a member of the National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes and a reference to Marlon Brando's version of Dr. Moreau in The Island of Dr. Moreau. Like Dr. Moreau, Mephisto conducts perverse genetic experiments creating animal hybrids. But his idea of improving upon evolution involves adding multiple asses to an animal. You've seen the remake and you get all the South Park references so it's time to check out the original Island of Lost Souls. more ›

JIMMY STEWART WAS RIGHT, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: The fact that James Franco's most recent work on General Hospital landed him an appearance on Saturday Night Live proves that soap operas have inserted themselves into pop culture. Ehren Ebbage has recently found exposure to millions of daytime viewers with airtime on both Guiding Light and a Christmas song on The Young and the Restless. Check him out live tonight. more ›

WORLD SERIES GAME 1: It's the defending World Series champs against the reigning payroll champs. We're cheering on Ibañez with the hope that he will someday return to Seattle where we spell his name right. more ›

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Tonight and tomorrow, it's your last chance to see one of the year's best-reviewed documentaries at the Grand Illusion. King Corn follows two friends who move from the East Coast to the Iowa heartland to raise an acre of the highly-subsidized titular crop and follow it through the "corn industrial complex." It ain't pretty, but the film helpfully points out the extent to which corn is a part of the average American (and the average American cow's) diet, whether or not you realize you're eating it. Goodbye, wholesome summer meals and hellooooo, high-fructose corn syrup and obesity! Good thing that the protagonists and director provide the awful truth with a wink and a sense of humor, a la Super Size Me. more ›

7 & 9pm // Grand Illusion Cinema [1403 NE 50th (Corner of University Way and 50th)] // $7 more ›

Seattlest enjoys a good documentary, so we were excited to see that the Grand Illusion will be showing two politically-charged features later this week. They sound like doozies: more ›