Saturday, May 26

Pre-Willennium Tension: Men In Black III Reviewed

Movies & Television We don't know why there's a third Men in Black, but we reviewed it anyway, even though it screened a... More

May 25, 2012 04:35 pm by AP KRYZA  | Comments 0
 

A Little Big Disaster: Battleship Reviewed

Movies & Television Battleship, the gargantuan-budget sci-fi action-adventure based on a Hasbro board game and starring ... More

May 21, 2012 10:47 am by MATTHEW SINGER  | Comments 2
 

Grimm Recap: The Girl with the Dragon Breath

Movies & Television Grimm, Season 1, Episode 14: "Plumed Serpent"Beast of the Week: Damonfeuers, dragon creatures who ca... More

Mar 13, 2012 03:18 pm by MATTHEW SINGER  | Comments 0
 

Grimm Recap: The One with the Hitler Demon

Movies & Television So I took last week off from these recaps (read: I never found time to watch the episode), but lucki... More

Mar 5, 2012 02:26 pm by MATTHEW SINGER  | Comments 1
 
 
 
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Just the Twos and Us

Will Smith sequels more necessary than Men in Black III.


Movie Reviews & Stories
Something is terribly wrong with the world when we’re getting a third Men in Black movie and still don’t know what happened after...   More
 
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER, AP KRYZA

First Position

Moppets in motion.


Movie Reviews & Stories
According to one expert in First Position, the keys to making it in the cutthroat world of ballet are “body, training, passion, personality.” Freshman director Bess Kargman manages to find s   More
 
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

It’s Bill Plympton Day!

Celebrating Portland’s master of grotesque.


Movie Reviews & Stories
Even in a town known for incubating distinctive animation talents, Portland-born Bill Plympton is special. Not only is he one of the most iconic animators currently working—his work is recogniza   More
 
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Back to the Fringe

The Experimental Film Festival reconnects Portland’s avant-cinema community.


Movie Reviews & Stories
Experimental media in Portland is fractured. If that meant abstruse, mind-splattering and totally fucking bonkers, it’d be a good thing. But it’s more literal. In the last three years, the loc   More
 
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Bernie

Texas is the reason the old lady’s dead.


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Richard Linklater’s new movie contains all the “outrageous” elements obligatory to deadpan, small-town true crime. Nice-guy killer? Meet Bernie Tiede, hymn-singing assistant mortician with   More
 
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 AARON MESH

Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

A little bit country, a little bit glam rock.


Movie Reviews & Stories
It’s fitting that the flagship offering of the sixth annual Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival is Jeffrey Schwarz’s Vito (7 pm Sunday, May 20), a eulogy for the man who documented the depi   More
 
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 SAUNDRA SORENSON

You’re Killing Me, Barnabas

Dark Shadows is Tim Burton’s Arrested Development. Sort of.


Movie Reviews & Stories
Tim Burton takes a lot of guff. Admittedly, much of it is justified. Any director brazen enough to think the world was clamoring for a mall-goth interpretation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory   More
 
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Headhunters

A riches-to-bandages story.


Movie Reviews & Stories
A high point of nerve-wracked Norwegian thriller Headhunters finds its protagonist, a corporate recruiting agent named Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), desperately navigating a rain-slicked road on the   More
 
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Sound of My Voice

The blonde leading the blind.


Movie Reviews & Stories
Tract houses and taupe shag carpeting: For the tight few opening minutes of Sound of My Voice, this is the mundanely hellish world of the modern cult. Peter and Lorna (Christopher Denham and Nicol   More
 
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 SAUNDRA SORENSON

The A-Team

Joss Whedon goes for glory with The Avengers.


Movie Reviews & Stories
In helming The Avengers—the long-awaited convergence of four Marvel Comics properties into one gargantuan nesting doll of a summer blockbuster—Joss Whedon is burdened with glorious purpose.    More
 
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER
 

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