The Campaign

Pressing flesh, punching babies.

Movie Reviews & Stories Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell have become the paunchy, awkward Wayans brothers of American comedic film, broad-stroked and choked up with cheap gags, sweaty and desperate for the audience’s   More

 

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

Samurais talking...now in 3-D!

Movie Reviews & Stories Japanese director Takashi Miike has never met a provocation he didn’t want to amplify. Films as diverse as the terrifying Audition, the grim Ichi the Killer and the absurdist Zebraman are soaked w   More

 

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 AP KRYZA

Memory Games

If this isn’t Total Recall, then what the hell is it? An objective comparison.

Movie Reviews & Stories Critic’s Grade: C-SEE IT: Total Recall is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Lloyd Ma   More

 

Wednesday, August 1, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

The Queen of Versailles

When the 1 percent defaults.

Movie Reviews & Stories Meet Jackie Siegel. Half Miss Havisham, half Stifler’s mom, she presides—in a state of well-intentioned oblivion—over eight children and...   More

 

Wednesday, August 1, 2012 SAUNDRA SORENSON

Ruby Sparks

She is real. Her love is not.

Movie Reviews & Stories In this metafictional rom-com, Paul Dano plays a bestselling novelist named Calvin Weir-Fields, a onetime prodigy whose genius peaked with the epoch-defining book he published at age 19. In the    More

 

Wednesday, August 1, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Extraterrestrial

Love and other aliens.

Movie Reviews & Stories Following up on 2007’s much-venerated, sordid metaphysical puzzle box Timecrimes, director Nacho Vigalondo again cracks the genre box wide open in Extraterrestrial.  Across all of Spain, 4-   More

 

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Step Up Revolution

Occupy Daaaammnnnn!

Movie Reviews & Stories  Occupiers: Step it up. Your campouts are for Cub Scouts. Y’all need to...    More

 

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 AP KRYZA

Gone Batshit

Ten hours. Five Batman movies. No sleep.

Movie Reviews & Stories When DC Comics created Batman, my parents weren’t alive. And when George Clooney nearly tarnished his career by donning the nipply Batsuit in 1997’s Batman and Robin, I was playing with Barb   More

 

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 KIMBERLY HURSH

The Dark Knight Rises

Movie Reviews & Stories Holy inconvenient screening time! Inexplicably, the biggest movie of the year played for critics at 10 am on WW’s press day. We went to the screening anyway, of course, and hastily pecked out an   More

 

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Take This Waltz

Take my marriage, please.

Movie Reviews & Stories When last we saw Michelle Williams, she was impersonating Marilyn Monroe for an Oscar nomination. Now she returns to vivify Take This Waltz, a movie that is essentially a pensive, gender-reversed The    More

 

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 AARON MESH