Movie Reviews & Stories Something is terribly wrong with the world when we’re getting a third Men in Black movie and still don’t know what happened after...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories According to one expert in First Position, the keys to making it in the cutthroat world of ballet are “body, training, passion, personality.” Freshman director Bess Kargman manages to find s   More

Books Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel (Nestucca Spit Press, 158 pages, $30) is a failure. Harsh words, but its author might agree. Matt Love, a    More

Movies & Television Battleship, the gargantuan-budget sci-fi action-adventure based on a Hasbro board game and starring Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna, wasn't screened by WW's press deadlines. Why not? It's only the end of cinema as we know it. Here's a review.
WW Critics Grade: C-
Like taking a stand for Wall Street bankers, oil companies or guys who hang truck nuts from the bumpers of their SUVs, defending a movi...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Experimental media in Portland is fractured. If that meant abstruse, mind-splattering and totally fucking bonkers, it’d be a good thing. But it’s more literal. In the last three years, the loc   More

Brew Views Willem Dafoe hunts a rare tiger in the jungles of Tasmania? Sign me the fuck up! Like The Grey, whose trailer insinuated Liam Neeson would spend the movie killing wolves with his bare hands, a one   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Tim Burton takes a lot of guff. Admittedly, much of it is justified. Any director brazen enough to think the world was clamoring for a mall-goth interpretation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory   More

Movie Reviews & Stories A high point of nerve-wracked Norwegian thriller Headhunters finds its protagonist, a corporate recruiting agent named Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), desperately navigating a rain-slicked road on the   More

Movie Reviews & Stories In helming The Avengers—the long-awaited convergence of four Marvel Comics properties into one gargantuan nesting doll of a summer blockbuster—Joss Whedon is burdened with glorious purpose.    More

Movie Reviews & Stories The films of Hayao Miyazaki and the other animators associated with Tokyo’s Studio Ghibli are renowned for their illustrative elegance and wondrous imagination. Funny, then, that the company o   More