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  1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times

    ‘Hunger Games’ prequel, ‘Digger’ and other big movies of fall 2026 (opens the original)

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    This year's fall movie season offers up sheep, dogs, Godzilla, Jane Austen, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp doing Dickens, a husband made of wicker, and Jessica Chastain being extremely scary. Something for everyone! (Note: Premiere dates are subject to change.) More historical drama, with Ethan Hawke as a Depression-era incarcerated veteran hired by a warden (Russell Crowe) to smuggle a treasure trove of gold through 100 miles of wilderness. (Sept. 18) Surely we all deserve not one but two delightful s

  2. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times

    ‘Practical Magic 2’ prompts visit to Washington town where original was filmed (opens the original)

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    COUPEVILLE, Wash. — The charming Whidbey Island town of Coupeville is pleasantly haunted, especially in autumn. Not by ghosts, though, but by a movie. The arrival of "Practical Magic 2" in theaters Sept. 10 is a reminder that, about 28 years ago, a Hollywood film crew descended upon Coupeville’s quiet streets to film the original “Practical Magic,” a drama/comedy/romance/fantasy starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as Sally and Gillian Owens, a pair of beautiful sisters who inherit

  3. Article · Jul 15, 2026 · Moira Macdonald

    ‘The Odyssey’ review: Christopher Nolan’s epic is a remarkable journey (opens the original)

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    Watching Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is something of an odyssey in itself. Like Odysseus’ postwar journey home to Penelope, the film is vast, eventful, loud, dramatic, stressful, exhausting and seemingly endless. But as he showed us in “Oppenheimer,” Nolan has an uncanny way of making nearly three hours fly, even as you’re starting to wonder just how many travails poor Odysseus (a sturdy Matt Damon), not to mention the audience, can endure. Much of his “Odyssey” is mesmerizing — both massi

  4. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Moira Macdonald

    Seattle filmmaker’s documentary finds hope in small-town movie theaters (opens the original)

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    SEATTLE — A few years ago, Seattle-based documentarian Rustin Thompson was all set to make, by his own description, a rather depressing film about the disappearance of the moviegoing experience in small communities. “No one sees my movies anyway,” he remembered thinking, half-joking, so why not make an artistic, somewhat experimental film “and show all these bleak, lost places of history.” And then he met Tiny. For his newest documentary, “The Last Picture Shows,” which has screenings in western

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