Brew Views I often wonder whether The Goonies is held in as high esteem elsewhere as it is in the Northwest. For most Oregon natives now on the cusp of their 30s, the 1985 film was a rite of passage—not onl   More

Brew Views Seeming to hail from a cinematic quasar that flared briefly before disappearing forever, Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth plays on an entirely alien emotional register. This is an ear   More

Brew Views Among the lessons taught by Richard Linklater in Dazed and Confused—the importance of specific locations, how much deeper nostalgia cuts when it isn’t whitewashed, what Matthew McConaughey likes   More

Brew Views Speaking as someone who lived, worked and went broke in Bangkok during his early 20s, the biggest problem with The Hangover Part II is not that it ignores the unique and fundamentally conservative Th   More

Brew Views When a man in a Germanic military cap asks a crowd, “Will you stand with me?” that is traditionally an excellent moment to leave that crowd. But this man is addressing Chicago’s International    More

Brew Views When Gregg Mottola and J.J. Abrams made their respective Spielberg pilgrimages this year with Paul and Super 8 in hand, they bypassed the most indelible quality of the master’s touchstone, Close Enc   More

Brew Views What John Callahan was to Portland, poet Steven J. Bernstein was to Seattle—a troubled, idiosyncratic icon of the seedier side of the street. Now Bernstein also has his own movie   More

Brew Views For some people, terror is the idea of being buried alive or burnt to a crisp. For me, it’s taking a hot shower and feeling a little tickle on my face. And that tickle turning out to be a big ol�   More

Brew Views Yes, as a matter of fact it is true that I wrote my undergraduate thesis on Rushmore, and it is entirely possible that I got an extension on it. And yes, there probably was some irony in writing a q   More

Brew Views If you’re part of that generation of moviegoers who believe Jeff Bridges was born a grizzled coot, hightail it to Thunderbolt and Lightfoot to see the earliest incarnation of Jeff: a happy-go-lucky   More