Director Zack Snyder has confirmed that the director’s cut of Watchmen will be released in July.  The release will be limited to New York and Los Angeles, with hopes of attracting the die-hard fans of the original graphic novel on which the film is based.  The internet has been abuzz with fanboy speculation about the […]

        At a coffee shop in Austin, Texas earlier this year, two attractive young women were sitting on a couch together and offered us a flier for a movie that they made which had just recently shown at the SXSW Film Festival. Reading the flier, it said “Bi the Way: a documentary […]

Glenn’s Toronto Film Festival 2008: For the Love of Film (46 movies in 10 days) THE TIFF Che: "I believe in mankind."   1 – Ashes of Time Redux – Wong Kar-wai 2 – A Christmas Tale – Arnaud Desplechin 3 – 35 Rhums – Claire Denis 4 – Wendy and Lucy – Kelly Reichardt […]

2008 was widely proclaimed as “the Summer of Film” in Seattle, where 4 features were shot, ranging from the super-indie Humpday (by local filmmaker Lynn Shelton) to World’s Greatest Dad starring Robin Williams. And I made it my mission to get my face – or at least my body – into one of them.   […]

If you haven’t seen The Dark Knight, the newest biopic of legendary fictitious millionaire Bruce Wayne and his alter-ego Batman, please go find someone who has seen it and ask them to slap you in the face. If you haven’t seen it because of some moral obligation, fine, ask them to place their left hand […]

Mark and Jay Duplass, creators of the mumblecore classic the Puffy Chair, took a bit of a chance with their new film Baghead. The Puffy Chair drew critical acclaim for its documentary-like portrayal of a relationship on the skids, played out as a road movie. The brothers move in a different direction with Baghead, which […]

Randomville has just wrapped up its first collaboration with the Seattle International Film Festival. On behalf of our entire website, I’d like to personally thank Cal Ledbetter, Ted Fry, the SIFF Volunteers and everyone else who was involved with the SIFF that we collaborated with along the way. It was a great time for all […]

The Seattle International Film Festival ends on June 15th, but before that happens, take a look at what we have to say about many of the films that will be shown. And if you can’t make it to the festival this year, then keep all of these films (plus our other previews) in mind for […]

A few weeks ago, we brought the documentary American Teen to your attention. This film is quickly gathering steam, and it appears that director Nanette Burstein has a hot hand as well because it earned her the SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL’S 2008 award for Directing: Documentary.   As one can imagine, Burstein has been more than […]

Randomville has gone out and sampled several of the films that will be on display at the Seattle International Film Festival this year, beginning on Thursday, May 22nd. We welcome contributors Robin Cameron and Pam Inglesby! A Man’s Job (Finland) An unemployed, yet entrepreneurial factory worker turns to the world’s oldest profession to support his […]