Movies

On the night of Jan. 28, 1985, dozens of that era’s top rock and pop artists gathered to make a recording.

Most of the people at the "Bob Marley: One Love" screening I attended walked out of the theater singing along with the closing credits song, Marley's "Is This Love."

Once upon a time, comic book movies used to be camp, riding the line of silliness and sincerity that would suit the cinematic adaptation of a slim illustrated volume about superheroes and their exploits. But over 20 years ago, the superhero industrial complex rejected camp, becoming dark and gritty, then sarcastic and flip, then cycling back to wholesomely earnest again for a time. However, in these days of waning superhero enthusiasm, fatigue setting in, it seems there’s an opening for comic book movies to be stupid – stupidly fun – again, especially if “Madame Web” can tell their fortunes.

Christopher Nolan is one step closer to cradling his first Oscar. Saturday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, the 53-year-old British director of "Oppenheimer" won the Directors Guild of America's award for feature film.  

Spokane immediately popped into Alexander Yellen’s head when he pondered where to shoot the road-trip portions of the film “Daruma.” Yellen briefly pondered locales while in his Los Angeles home while poring over his wife, Kelli McNeil-Yellen’s script.

The 25th annual Spokane International Film Festival returns with an impressive array of compelling narratives, informative documentaries, moving animation shorts, eye-opening indigenous films and dramatic LGBTQ movies,

Fans of Lee Child’s “Reacher” novels had a real problem when his novels were made into movies. And that problem came down to two simple words: Tom Cruise.

It starts humbly, a gnarled turnip emerging from the soil in the early morning light; carrots and lettuces collected and assembled alongside fish and poultry and cream in a large country kitchen. These plants and animals pulled from the earth, ready to be transformed with the precise applications of fat and heat.

The equal parts forgettable and regrettable teen comedy “Lisa Frankenstein” stars Kathryn Newton (best known as Paul Rudd’s daughter in the latest “Ant-Man” movie) as the title character, a mopey high school misfit whose spiritual predecessors are “Beetlejuice”-era Winona and “Desperately Seeking Susan”-era Madonna.

Locally shot and produced "Going Home" season finale will be screened at the Bing Tuesday with stars Cynthia Geary and Karen Allen in attendance. 

Actor Carl Weathers, known for a wide range of iconic film and TV roles, including "Rocky," "The Mandalorian" and "Predator," has died. He was 76.

Brad Pitt has reportedly signed on to appear in “The Movie Critic,” widely believed to be director Quentin Tarantino’s final film.

Tommy is in a slump. His longtime girlfriend dumped him, he works at a nothing kind of job and – despite being nearly 40 years old – he lives with his mother.

Life in plastic is fantastic for “Barbie” star Margot Robbie, who is also “beyond ecstatic” for her film’s Oscar nominations haul — even if she didn’t receive an acting nomination.

Nikolaj Arcel’s “The Promised Land” is aptly titled. Adapted from the novel “The Captain and Ann Barbara” by Ida Jessen, the land itself — the untamed heath of Jutland, the peninsula that makes up the continental portion of Denmark — proves to be both setting and character, as mercurial, tormented and blood-stained as anyone else in this tale.

For months, one question has plagued moviegoers: “who is the real Agent Argylle?” It’s a query posed by Samuel L. Jackson in the ubiquitous trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s spy action-comedy “Argylle,” though there are more pressing questions that the trailer presents, like, “who thought a flat-top on Henry Cavill was a good idea?” and, “why are we spelling argyle with two Ls?”

When all this is over, when Lily Gladstone no longer has to discuss and dissect and get all dressed up to celebrate "Killers of the Flower Moon," the movie that first came into her life nearly five years ago and has now propelled her into history as the first Native American to earn an Oscar nomination for lead actress, she's going to head back home to her family in suburban Seattle. Gladstone moved in with her parents a few years ago to help take care of her special-needs uncle and her grandmother, who died last summer after battling dementia. Her immediate plan: Pay off her parents' mortgage this year. Next step: Carve out a space for herself nearby.

As he took in a recent screening of a new documentary on the making of “We Are the World,” Lionel Richie found himself — even now, four decades after the all-star charity single was released — gripped by a creeping sense of anxiety.

In Rachel Lambert’s dreamlike indie “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” our heroine’s life is on mute: visually, sonically and emotionally. An office worker in a coastal Oregon town, Fran (Daisy Ridley) is the silent center of this story.