1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (467+ words) Spokane Public Radio Nathan Weinbender reviews "Hope" Na Hong-jin’s Hope is a rarity, a big-budget spectacle that’s genuinely, endearingly loopy. At a time when so much American studio filmmaking — even the good stuff — is affable, speed-tested gadgetry, here’s a ragtag…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (431+ words) Spokane Public Radio "The Dog Stars" and "Coyote vs. Acme" Let’s begin with a film about a boy and his dog. Sorry, that was a reference to the 1975 satirical post-apocalyptic film A Boy and His Dog, directed by L.Q. Jones,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (481+ words) Spokane Public Radio Nathan Weinbender reviews "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun makes movies about people being subsumed by media. They’re hypnotized by it, obsessed with it, so absorbed in its details and inner workings that…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (558+ words) If there was one thing that Anthony Bourdain personified, it was a roguish love of life. And for Bourdain, the one-time chef and popular television presenter, much of what he most enjoyed about life involved food and travel. On the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (440+ words) Spokane Public Radio "Tony" and "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma" In the book that first brought him fame, Kitchen Confidential, the chef-turned-writer Anthony Bourdain described himself with an unsparing sense of honesty: “I was – to be frank –“ he…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (547+ words) It doesn’t take much effort to imagine what the brainstorming session might have been like that led up to the movie The End of Oak Street. Picture a group of screenwriters, producers, studio heads and/or maybe even a director…...