Brew Views Every possible aspect of The Godfather has been thoroughly assayed and diagramed—in some college library, there is surely a term paper titled Woltz Up, Doc?: Khartoum the Horse and the Art of Non-Ve   More

Brew Views Even if you don’t notice any difference in what image you see, the death of celluloid is going to impact the kind of movies you see. The open question is whether digital projection will offer mo   More

Brew Views If you’ll permit us a parting pun—why not, at this point?—2011 was the year the Gosling hatched. Ryan Gosling’s acting in Drive and Crazy, Stupid, Love. was probably more memorable, but his gr   More

Brew Views Before his touted weight loss made everyone notice how outsized his ears are, Jonah Hill showed a knack for active listening in Moneyball. The business-of-baseball movie recognizes that the romance    More

Brew Views There are some cinematic memories that warm our hearts every Christmas, bringing cheer with each viewing. Little Virginia finding out that indeed, there is a Santa Claus. George Bailey realizing    More

Brew Views Will Ferrell’s charm (always a precarious thing) depends wholly on his innocence. If you ever get the feeling he knows better, Ferrell’s pushiness becomes insufferable, since every vehicle h   More

Brew Views Hans Gruber is Santa Claus. This should be obvious even to those disadvantaged souls who didn’t grow up with Die Hard on TV as the family yule log. Consider: Both have murky European origins, bo   More

Brew Views  There are two movies inside The Help, and you may as well know about both before your folks drag you to see them this Thanksgiving. One is a slightly self-congratulating tear-jerker about a whit   More

Brew Views Contagion was hailed as Stephen Soderbergh’s return to Traffic form, which is all well and good until you remember that Traffic is the worst film Soderbergh has made. Contagion is better, mostly bec   More

Brew Views There’s a secularist party going on this weekend at Portland Humanist Film Festival, which includes a costume-contest screening
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