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

Brew Views Forget Sweeney Todd—the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is the most disturbing film musical ever made. Those dead-eyed Oompa Loompas? Gene Wilder playing Wonka as a psychotic dand   More

Brew Views In a recent article for The Atlantic, writer Alan Siegel told America it needs to “get over” Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. His argument is the film, which turns a quarter-century old this year, is   More

Brew Views Whatever the mystery menace turns out to be in J.J. Abrams’ Super 8, I hope the director took some lessons from producer Steven Spielberg on how to maximize the big reveal. Of all his abilities as   More

Brew Views It’s been a big year for spaghetti Westerns—or at least, tributes to them. Gore Verbinski paid homage in his bizarre kiddie flick Rango, Community spoofed them in its season finale, and Danger    More

Brew Views An unemployed man-child who wears tight pants and is obsessed with his bicycle? Sounds like a typical Portlander. No surprise, then, to see Pee-wee’s Big Adventure receive the Lebowski Fest treat   More

Brew Views Despite Quentin Tarantino’s reputation as a kind of career defibrillator, nobody ever mentions the inverse trick he pulled with Robert De Niro in Jackie Brown: recognizing a descending catatonia    More

Brew Views Sixteen Candles doesn’t get the respect it deserves. Of all the films in John Hughes’ lauded ’80s teen-flick canon, the epic saga of Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald)—who gives her polka-dot    More

Brew Views Everybody knows the iconic walking bass line in Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Were Made for Walkin’.” But do you know who wrote the part? Though they played on hundreds of standards—from t   More