Brew Views If you’re in the mood for a diverting if violent exercise, this weekend you can watch a 28-year-old Vincent D’Onofrio as a doomed jarhead in Full Metal Jacket, then hop to Fox Tower and watch a    More

Brew Views There’s something a little vulgar about preferring the overkill of Aliens to the classic purity of Alien, but I’ve always felt a helpless attraction to movies that traffic in the trope of charac   More

Brew Views More than a mere appetizer to the Objectivist Happy Meals director Brad Bird would go on to make for Pixar, The Iron Giant is one of the last, doomed stands of hand-drawn animation, and the rare Ame   More

Brew Views While Beer and Movie presents Metalhaus and its 9-foot-tall Killbot at the Wonder Ballroom on Saturday night, it’s fitting that Tim Colley’s montage-cum-installation New Wave Hookers plays in the   More

Brew Views Among the many attention-and-statuette-grabbing performances in The Fighter, Mark Wahlberg’s work in the title role has been targeted as the picture’s weak link—a void in the center of the rin   More

Brew Views It is now common to confuse George Lucas with Darth Vader, what with their both secluding themselves in an empire, tinkering with invisible forces and making Natalie Portman cry. However, there was a    More

Brew Views Many of the things I loved most as a child have turned out to be terrible. The Kansas City Royals. The Kingston Trio. The Republican Party. Happily, Follow That Bird is not on that list. Sure, it†  More

Brew Views If you want a glimpse of Oregon’s LSD-lit legend Ken Kesey on the big screen, skip past Milos Forman’s cutesy-pie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; instead, try Nick Nolte in 1978’s Who’ll St   More

Brew Views I don’t know if Heavy Metal is a good movie, but it is an original and—in its crude way—a brave one. A fantasy cartoon urtext with SCTV voices, the 1981 omnibus hails from an era before fanboys    More

Brew Views Beer and Movie opens a three-month revival showcase at the Laurelhurst with Team America: World Police, which is only 7 years old, but already looks like a relic from an obsolete political era. Mayb   More