Screen Nothing jars Hollywood into action like the threat of squandered profits. So the studios, recognizing that Christmas falls on a Saturday—thus reducing precious holiday matinee hours—have b ...   More

Screen There’s something very diabolical about an ancient man who watches children at all times, passing judgment on their behavior before breaking into their homes in the middle of the night. Finnish ...   More

Screen Stephin Merritt, bard of the gay bars, writes unforgettable songs and speaks in uncompromising aphorisms. He’s a notoriously “difficult” interview—because every arts journalist ...   More

Screen It makes film study so much easier when a movie announces its own interpretation in the opening reel, and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is very helpful in this way—like an open-book exam r ...   More

Screen The celluloid vs. digital argument is often portrayed as a battle pitting projection-booth purists against James Cameron’s army of bloodless replicants, but this week’s HDFest is a reminde ...   More

Screen I have a trivial confession: I am an inveterate and unrepentant movie-hopper. I have spent full eight-hour workdays at the cineplex exhausting its options, emerging dazed and spent and viciously hypog ...   More

Screen If you’re going to make a movie about an entertainment form based on skin, sex and bawdy belly laughs, your film ought to include any of the three. But the new Christina Aguilera comeback vehicl ...   More

Screen It did not augur well for Disney’s latest princess cartoon when the studio changed the title from Rapunzel to Tangled, in hopes of enticing more little princes. Let down your hair, but hedge you ...   More

Screen In advance of its much-buzzed release, the Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams film Blue Valentine—which has yet to secure a Portland opening—was slapped with an NC-17 rating by the MPAA, a ...   More

Screen Everybody has tough teenage years, but damn does Harry Potter have issues. Sure, we’ve all dealt with shifty relatives and hormonally imbalanced friends with mean streaks. But we didn’t ha ...   More