This reminder courtesy of Seattlest's favorite Port Orchard cartoonist Pat Moriarity: A gang of scary KILLER sasquatches star in...... Tues., June 10 // 8:00 p.m. // Jewel Box Theater (Rendezvous) // $8......

SIFF continues, and since the weather has reverted to form, you might as well drop in at a movie or sixteen this week. For all film screenings, the general/member ticket prices are $11/$9 (matinees, $8/$7), except for gala screenings and other special events, which cost more. For those of you without a well-thumbed and starred SIFF schedule on hand, Seattlest presents this cheat sheet for this week's (Monday through Thursday) showings: · Today's films of......

Writer/director Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) is not for everyone. But enough people in Seattle are for him that last night's 9:15 p.m. showing of latest film Mister Lonely had the little theater at the Northwest Film Forum completely packed, and now the film's run has been extended another week (through May 29th). The plot: Diego Luna is a Dangerous-era Michael Jackson impersonator, the radiant-as-always Samantha Morton is a voluptuous Marilyn Monroe impersonator. They......

We seem to be covering the benefit beat lately--Wednesday night David Schmader takes over the Triple Door to "annotate" Paul Verhoeven's "film" Showgirls. It's to raise money for the the Urban Rest Stop, a "hygiene center" downtown. We're for a free place for people to freshen up, don't get us wrong. It's just funny to have the Showgirls tie-in, in that the one and only time we watched it we had to take a long......

Just announced: The 34th Seattle International Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, May 22 with the premiere of Battle in Seattle, a gripping dramatization of events that rocked the world when Seattle was host to the World Trade Organization. The evening unfolds at Seattle Center's Marion Oliver McCaw Hall with a red carpet welcome for expected guests Charlize Theron and Martin Henderson, stars of the film, and director Stuart Townsend. A gala party will......

Since SIFF is kicking off its Global Lens series this weekend, we stopped in to catch South Africa's Bunny Chow, the film debut from John Barker. We were told it wasn't "about" race and apartheid, but it does begin with some homespun moralizing about bunny chow and how Johannesburg is a melting pot, before it gets going: three comics at various stages in their careers take a road trip to a big music festival. (The......

Sometimes a good ski movie can console you during an off year, but we're already having a record-breaking snow season (ok, it's no 1998, but still, the quality and volume of the snow we've been getting this year is reminiscent of our days growing up in Utah for what that's worth). So maybe you don't need a powder porn flick to fuel your stoke, but we're thinking that Steep (showing in a limited run at......

We had heard a lot of good buzz going into Sunshine Cleaning, starring the perpetually lovable and talented Amy Adams and the nearly as up-and-coming Emily Blunt as sisters who break into the lucrative niche growth industry of crime scene cleanup. Dealing with the literal blood, guts, and body fluids of the recently departed forces the ladies to examine some of the biohazards in their own lives. Wackiness and personal growth ensues. Unfortunately, the movie......

We have it on good authority -- namely, the UnSpun list of Best Pub Quizzes in Seattle, which we created last week and which has been voted on by a whopping 4 people -- that the quiz at the Old Pequliar is the 9th best trivia quiz in Seattle. Imagine how much better it will be this week, when we're not hosting! Instead regular player Kevin hosts. He's part of a team that regularly squashes......

We love lists. Which is why we're a little sad that we didn't know about Amazon.com's UnSpun until we read The Paper Noose's post on Georgetown's place in the Top "Hip" Neighborhoods to Live in Seattle, WA. There's nothing we love better than completely arbitrary lists with no discernible criteria beyond kneejerk personal opinion -- except maybe passing them along. According to UnSpun users, the top 10 "hip" neighborhoods are: 1. Capitol Hill (surprise,......

Last night, in the middle of the movie round, Seattlest officially became old. "What Canadian actor, who died in Mexico, appeared in seven movies directed by John Hughes, more than any other performer?" we asked. "Who's John Hughes?" we heard some people ask in response. The rebellious voice of your parent's youth, said our head. Occasionally we figure Seattlest Trivia should have some Seattle trivia in it, so we did a Seattle round. The......

Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays wrap up tonight at the Paramount -- the redoubtable Dennis James on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ -- with a trifecta of Charlie Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Cure, The Immigrant, and The Adventurer. Tickets are $12. The show starts at 7pm, but if you get there early, you can hear Freehold Theatre's George Lewis talk about Chaplin's contribution to the field of physical comedy. In the first short, an alcoholic......

Seattle wasn't selected as the Simpsons official hometown (screw you, Springfield, VT), but we've got a Kwik-E-Mart, so there. We've also got a great venue to watch the Simpsons on the big screen, come July 27th. We fully expect the opening night audience at Cinerama to be crazy: lined up around the block, wearing costumes, quoting their favorite lines ("Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!"), clapping and commenting throughout the film. We......

The Simpsons make the transition to the big screen a couple weeks from now (July 27th to be exact) and we have to say that we're not as psyched for the feature film as much as we would have been, say, ten years ago. Now that the show is approaching its (dear god) 19th season, it's just not as good as it used to be. Yeah yeah yeah, that's totally a crotchety old man......

It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by poop. Finally D.C. contemplated taking Vermont's place as a state and marveled at the GOP lessons learned from the "Macaca Moment." Due to some sad shootings......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

SILENT MOVIES: It seems like only yesterday we were announcing Silent Movie Mondays' Harold Lloyd retrospective. But all good things must come to end, and frankly it's just in time because SIFF and STIFF are cranking up. First -- this is important -- the last double-feature is this Friday, despite the series being named Silent Movie Mondays. That's right, keep arms and fingers inside the ride at all times. To close out the series, we......

SILENT MOVIES: It's Week II of the Paramount's Harold Lloyd retrospective. Silent Movie Mondays brings you Dennis James on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ and ought to be on one of those things-to-do-before-you-die list because that's just the kind of experience it is. Of course, if you're into fast-paced comedies, it's just something-to-do-tonight and there's no reason to make a big fuss about it. Trader Joe's is the sponsor, by the way, and they're being......

HAROLD LLOYD: Tonight kicks off a month-long retrospective of the films of Harold Lloyd [learn more!], with Grandma's Boy and Dr. Jack. Lloyd's character wore round glasses and a perpetual look of earnest enthusiasm. (That still is from Movie Crazy.) He knew that keeping audiences on the edge of their seats with stunts made them laugh even harder -- but he may not have known that his clueless can-do attitude would sum up the......

PHOTOGRAPHY: The Jonas Bendiksen exhibit at the Photographic Center Northwest is worth visiting on the strength of the image above alone. The title of his book Satellites refers both to the space junk that occasionally comes crashing to Earth as well as to the former Soviet republics in which he shot these pictures. 12-9:30pm // Photographic Center Northwest // free BOOKS: Paul Park writes humanist fantasy and science fiction and is participating in a......

MUSIC: Kled, with a lineup that boasts some of our favorite band names in town, including A Gun that Shoots Knives and We Wrote the Book on Connectors. 9pm // the High Dive // $5 NERDS: Flashback to your middle school days of trying to talk to girls and spending too much time in the bathroom with the JC Penney catalog (you know, the phone-book-size one with all the super hot 18-hour bras) as Wing-It......

KIDS MUSIC: You know you've made it when you can send your affiliates out on tour. The Wiggles have sent Dorothy the Dinosaur, Captain Feathersword, Wags the Dog, and Henry the Octopus to host a Wiggle-tastic dance party. For those of you with kids it might be a great idea, but we'll be playing our own character, General WatchESPNAllDay. 11am & 2pm // Moore Theater // $20-25 HOLIDAYS: Seattle Center's Winterfest can fill your day......

MUSIC MOVIE: Danielson: A Family Movie follows musician/multi-media artist Daniel Smith as he endeavors to create art with his siblings and friends while also balancing his love for Jesus. Including appearances by Sufjan Stevens, Rick Moody, Daniel Johnston, and Steve Albini, tonight’s the documentary’s Seattle premiere. 7pm, 9pm // Northwest Film Forum // $8.50 SHOPPING PARTY: Galactic Boutique teams up with local artists MasterCraft for its holiday party/craft extravaganza GalactiCraft. Check out the latest fashions......

No, the Other Theater: The new movies out this weekend are shite, so this is your chance to catch up on the wealth of quality films already in theaters. Babel, Borat, Casino Royale, For Your Consideration, The Fountain, Little Children, Marie Antoinette, The Queen, Stranger Than Fiction, and Volver are all continuing their Seattle runs. Go now before you get back-logged further with the scads of Oscar contenders released later this month. Movie time......

We were warned: "Go to Taste of India, and you'll get addicted." Pull up to the restaurant and you'll notice their sky blue sign, proudly proclaiming "Winner of the Zagat Award." For food? Décor? Service? No. We think Taste of India must have gotten a Zagat Award for chai. And little did we know that the restaurant is full of chai pushers. Like the start of most any addiction, we brought it on ourselves. (Okay,......

First there was the Honda Fit concert series, and then the Yaris Works. And now, the next chapter in Cheap Japanese Car-Sponsored Hipster Activity/Youth-Focused Advertising Campaign is the Scion Route Independent Film Series. It's taking place in only six cities, so Seattle's in good company with Atlanta, Austin, L.A., Minneapolis, and New York. Looks like the guys in marketing think we're cool. This time, the targeted advertising is in the form of one Scion-sponsored......

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate......

Tuesday night, Seattlest decided to ratchet up the difficulty level on the quiz at the Old Pequilar. And we think that worked well. We heard bitching, but it was good, brain-smacking bitching, not lynch-the-quiz-host bitching. A record 14 teams signed up to play, which meant nice, large prizes: first place took home $100, second $25, and third $15. Round 8, our "identify the picture book by its cover" round, brought out some of the most......

The end is near. Soon SIFF will be but a fading memory. So if you've been putting it off, this weekend is the last chance until next year for you to get some festival action. As an added bonus, on Sunday night at the Broadway Performance Hall, there will be an encore presentation for two of the films (one short, one full-length) that end up taking home SIFF awards. If you missed 'em the......

Wednesday was the second and final showing of SIFF's 2006 Fly Film Festival, this year based on scripts submitted to the Screenwriters Salon. We kinda wish they hadn't done that. The challenge is that the filmmakers are given 5 days to shoot, 5 days to edit, and 2 days post-production, to come up with a finished 10-minute film. This year's crop of auteurs were Virginia Berta Bogert, Douglas Horn, Kris Kristensen, and Brad Wilke. Weirdly,......