Movie Reviews & Stories Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables lives up to its name. With the exception of about 10 minutes, the nearly three-hour film is an endless wallow in the fields of squalor, filth, chancre and herpes. More
Les Misérables
More of a nightmare than a dream.
Movie Reviews & Stories Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables lives up to its name. With the exception of about 10 minutes, the nearly three-hour film is an endless wallow in the fields of squalor, filth, chancre and herpes. More
Unchained and Unrestrained
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is certainly cool. But is that enough?
Movie Reviews & Stories Give Quentin Tarantino this much: He’s got balls. Imagine entering a meeting with a major studio, as a successful white director
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This Is 40
Potty humor knows no age.
Movie Reviews & Stories Judd Apatow’s latest undertaking, This Is 40, revisits Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann), the churlish yet lovable couple first introduced in Knocked Up. Fording the frigid waters of their More
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
Norman Rockwell, by way of Alfred Hitchcock.
Movie Reviews & Stories The photographer Gregory Crewdson has been described as “Norman Rockwell meets Norman Bates.” Like Rockwell, Crewdson captures small and ordinary More
Middle Earth Gets a Makeover
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a breathless, crackling adventure.
Movie Reviews & Stories By the time Peter Jackson wrapped his sterling Lord of the Rings trilogy, audiences had spent nearly 12 hours in Middle Earth, marveling at the... More
From House Seat to Director’s Chair
David Edwards masterminds his own mythology.
Movie Reviews & Stories Legislator-turned-filmmaker David Edwards wants to make one thing very clear: Nightscape, his debut feature, is not political commentary. It’s a fair disclaimer. The supernatural horror film, wh More
Hyde Park on Hudson
The only things to fear are hot dogs and handshakes.
Movie Reviews & Stories Like so many great romances in history, the affair between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his cousin began with a timid hand job. At least, that’s how his paramour Daisy (Laura Linney) remembers More
Remember the Alameda
Revisiting blaxploitation classics at a former Alberta street institution.
Movie Reviews & Stories In the early 1970s, during the heyday of blaxploitation, there was only one place in Portland you could consistently see pictures like Shaft and Superfly: the Alameda Cinema. “There wasn More
Striking a Balance
Bringing a taste of Hollywood—new and old—to Vancouver.
Movie Reviews & Stories The huge sign and marquee brightly announcing the Kiggins Theatre and its filmic fare (this week: Looper and Frankenweenie) to the drivers and pedestrians on Vancouver’s Main Street already look remarkably out of place. The More
Hitchcock
Dial M for “meh.”
Movie Reviews & Stories There’s an inherent danger in pulling back the curtain to reveal the puppeteers behind iconic art. It’s even trickier when the man is Alfred Hitchcock, whose reputation as a dry-witted prankst More
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Ehren Mcghehey is Portland’s resident Jackass. (Now Injured In 3-D!) Missing Misery
Ready or not, Portland gets an Elliott Smith documentary from Los Angeles. Do Me A Kindness
Winnebago Man searches for what’s behind the myth of Jack Rebney. FACT OR FICTION?
The documentary Grizzly Man seems a bit too strange to be true. Fun Size
A long, disgusting search for Shorty. Inside Job
Watching the defective financial detectives. You’ve Got Female
POWFest returns with some disturbing news about baby-making. Documentaries About Death
Another Earth
It’s like someone poured bleach in my eyes. Self-Seriously Funny
Portlandia brings back pickling and other hobbies.
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