Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy and girl relocate fish.

Movie Reviews & Stories What an extravagantly unnatural project this is! Not the billionaire sheik building a series of dams in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula to create a salmon run that might stimulate ecological   More

 

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 AARON MESH

21 Jump Street

Cloudy with a chance of balls.

Movie Reviews & Stories Having never seen the TV show this sophomoric comedy plunders, I can offer neither reassurances nor warnings to anyone who reveres the series that launched Johnny Depp. However, I’m betting th   More

 

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 CHRIS STAMM

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

We need to stalk about Kevin.

Movie Reviews & Stories The title tells you a lot about what sort of movie this might be: downtrodden, acerbic, commuting between office parks and Mom’s basement. And for the first 45 minutes, it confirms those suspici   More

 

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 AARON MESH

Space Jam

John Carter seeks batty new worlds.

Movie Reviews & Stories We were 20 minutes into John Carter and surrounded by a regiment of bloodthirsty Tharks when I realized I was lost. I figured we were probably on Mars. (The movie was originally titled John Carter   More

 

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 AARON MESH

POW Fest 2012

Movie Reviews & Stories Movies made by women are not the same thing as “chick flicks.” That’s made refreshingly clear from the roster of the fifth annual Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival, which pinballs from   More

 

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 KELLY CLARKE

Driven: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn

Goddamn: The Pusher!

Movie Reviews & Stories Nicolas Winding Refn populates his world with scum: The neon-drenched, narrow corridors of his best-known works, Drive and Bronson, seethe with junkies, pushers, pimps, killers, convicts and sociopa   More

 

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 AP KRYZA

A Pig In Shit

Sparks fly in Rampart as Woody Harrelson meets James Ellroy.

Movie Reviews & Stories The first thing you notice about Woody Harrelson in Rampart is how thin he is: His skin is taut over his bullet head and bulging temples...   More

 

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 AARON MESH

Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie

They’re kicking television.

Movie Reviews & Stories Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are masters of their medium. That medium is television. Famous with teenage stoners and fans of absurdism for their ever-inscrutable Cartoon Network show, Tim and E   More

 

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 CASEY JARMAN

Road To Nowhere

PIFF ends with horrors and prostitutes.

Movie Reviews & Stories   WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22 EternityCritic’s Score: 67[THAILAND] Though it is at some level a ghost story, Eternity is much more about absence than presence: The spirit in question is a lone rid   More

 

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Oh, The Places We’ve Been!

Mapping the terrain of a land called PIFF.

Movie Reviews & Stories No festival is an island. They’re regional importers, which is why the Portland International Film Festival shares so many titles with its sisters in Seattle, San Francisco and the Film Society    More

 

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE, AP KRYZA, AARON MESH, MATTHEW SINGER