Michael Sucsy’s “The Vow” is a movie that’s better than it probably should be. The ads make it look like an adaptation of another of Nicholas Sparks’ sappy, shallow romance novels. In fact in the official trailer they heavily advertise the fact that both its big stars, Rachael McAdams and Channing Tatum, were in previous Sparks adaptations. I had to take another look at the trailer and the promotional materials to find out that it wasn’t based on one of Sparks’ books but instead inspired by true events.
Elise Hale-Case acknowledges that running a meal program for the needy was not even on her radar screen when she graduated from Mount Holyoke College three years ago. But last April, when St. Vincent de Paul and Sacred Heart Church were looking for someone to oversee the Queen Anne Food Bank, located at 205 Second Ave. N., in the basement of the building adjacent to the Catholic Church’s sanctuary, the Seattle native jumped at the job.
[This article was last updated and modified on Feb. 24.]After years of debate and a few lawsuits, the U.S. Army Reserve will hold ceremonies on Saturday, Feb. 25, to officially close Fort Lawton. The Army is inviting the public to attend the ceremony, to be held at 10 a.m., Feb. 25, at the 2nd Lt. Robert R. Leisy U.S. Army Reserve Center at 4570 Texas Way W. There also will be a reception following the ceremony at the Daybreak Star Cultural Center, 3801 W. Government Way. Historical bus tours of Fort Lawton and Discovery Park will be available at the Daybreak Star facility.
If Woody Allen had been a woman born and raised in the Great Damp of the Pacific Northwest, Lynn Shelton might have been his name....
Framing Pictures is due for hanging again. Hanging out with, that is. This Friday, June 15, from 5 p.m. till around 6:45, Robert Horton, Richard T. Jameson, and Kathleen Murphy will settle onto chairs in the smaller auditorium at Northwest Film Forum for another round of conversation about movies. The panel is considering talking about Montgomery Clift, the subject of a three-film salute at Seattle Art Museum, and perhaps someone to cue a discussion of why certain actors become important at certain times in life. SAM is also gearing up for a six-film summer series of screwball comedies starring the incandescent Jean Arthur. And how can it be that Ridley Scott's Prometheus isn't being embraced by the fanboys? Plumb the mystery at NWFF,1515 12th Ave. (between Pine and Pike on Capitol Hill). No money need change hands, unless you want some beer or wine to go with the conversational flow.
Need an escape from Seattle’s dull weather? Head over to the SIFF Cinema at the Uptown on lower Queen Anne.
Hollywood’s annual prize day is a half-week away, and it can’t come too soon.
They're playing baseball again, aren't they? Between games, maybe folks would enjoy dipping into this 1989 feature for Pacific Northwest magazine.
Now let me get this straight. You say that Magic Mike is pretty good? And so is Channing Tatum?...
Despite the cake, speeches from dignitaries, and 47 cannon firings, many of the officers and veterans attending Saturday’s Fort Lawton closing ceremonies found the occasion a sad one. The ceremony on Feb. 25 marked the closing of the Army Reserve Center along the area’s Northeastern border. It is the last remnant of what once was a sprawling military base for much of the 20th Century.
Rebecca Slivka was standing the middle of the meeting room at the Queen Anne Community Center Feb. 23 and she was livid. Proposed changes to Bus Route No. 2 would force her 84-year-old mother, Enid, to walk a number of blocks to get the bus. Slivka was one of more than 100 people who gathered at the community to voice their concerns about various bus route changes that King County Metro is proposing for this coming fall.
I hadn't planned to join in the obsequies for the late Nora Ephron, but coincidentally I just scanned my 7 Days magazine review of When Harry Met Sally..., directed by Rob Reiner from her screenplay. This was the second review I did for the Manhattan weekly, still writing from Seattle. It's better than I had remembered. But was there really a time when I could say that, as a feature film director, "Rob Reiner hasn't made a wrong move"? Photo is Billy Crystal, of course.
What is probably director Fritz Lang's final masterpiece, The Big Heat, has been given a Blu-ray release by Twilight Time. Click "Read More" to see a program note I wrote exactly forty years ago. But if you've never seen the film, be warned that there are spoilers.
Jeopardy! Question, Seattle Edition: This Seattle resident’s 15-year career at the University Book Store prepared her to appear on “Jeopardy!” in June 2012 and win nearly $60,000.