Via Three Imaginary Girls: In case you haven't been following the story, imaginary Dana has been knocked up for a little over 9 months now. You can imagine how a buzz we've been at imaginary headquarters since about 24 hours ago when imaginary Dana first realized the baby was ready to say hello. We've been following her email updates and funny phone text messages since then, with a bottle of champagne ready for this most......

The script to Birdie Blue is the sort that, if there was any justice in this world, would have been unceremoniously trashed by every producer whose desk it crossed. Unfortunately, this being the real world and all, this awful script has been produced off-Broadway and in regional theatres all across the country, despite the fact it's guilty of every terrible conceit and device you could associate with the modern theatre. Nothing would have made us......

Monday started even earlier than Sunday with the Coen Brothers' heavily-touted No Country for Old Men. The elegantly slow-moving picture (care of cinematographer Roger Deakins) lives up to the hype, so much so that we can take it as their formal cinematic apology for their abysmal duo Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers. Ethan, Joel, we forgive you. Especially if it means that you won't sic scary-as-hell psycho-killer Javier Bardem on us. Next up was Juno,......

One of our good film friends recently saw a preview screening of Superbad. When we asked him his opinion after the fact, he replied that it was "funny because it’s stupid," just what we'd expect for a movie about high school boys. In fact, the movie was also kinda written by high school boys: Seth Rogan (he of newly acquired Knocked Up fame) and Evan Goldberg started on the Superbad script when they were......

We've been wanting to see Superbad for a while now. Before the commercial ran every five minutes, before the banner ads on the internets, before the trailer preceded every single film. In fact, we probably really started our jonesin' right around the time it was announced that Superbad had been removed from the SIFF schedule in favor of a Canadian horror film. Just one more reason to loathe those filthy Canucks. For the time......

We are, in fact, over half-way there, and yet we continue to live on a prayer--a prayer that the latter half of SIFF contains nearly as many fine films as what's been shown thus far. Seattlest applies our well-honed knowledge of all things cinema to the SIFF catalogue in order to point out some notable films playing this weekend: · Children of the War We've heard good things about this powerful documentary on the......

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried......

Now that the opening gala has kicked off SIFF all proper-like, it's time to join the orgy of cinema for the next 25 days. For all film screenings, the general/member ticket prices are $10/$8 (and matinees $7/$5), except for gala screenings, which are $25/$23, and the closing night film event, which is $40/$35. If you really want to be prepared for this year's fest, check out Microsoft's Live Search Maps SIFF collection. Unlike most......

It seems that it's always about day two of the fest that we really fall in love with this place---the overheard intense discussions of films, the industry gossip, the random interactions with individuals you will never see again, and all that swag just ripe for the taking---really, these are a few of our favorite things. When we last left off, we were headed into Zoo. The buzz going into the film was not good;......