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Licking PIFF

Don’t Let the Portland International Film festival get you down. WW's guide to week two.

Movie Reviews & Stories After a certain point—we’re going to say it’s this Saturday, Feb. 18—the trickiest part of navigating the Portland International Film Festival is summoning the will to get out of bed. More

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

This Means War

Illegally wiretapped blonde.

Movie Reviews & Stories This is the story of two secret agents. They are best friends. They are terrible secret agents, though the movie seems only dimly aware of this. After all, it is directed by McG, whose idea of s More

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 AARON MESH

PIFF Improvement

Helping the Portland International Film Festival get better, one movie at a time.

Movie Reviews & Stories We live in a difficult world. If you were not aware of how difficult it is, the Portland International Film Festival is here to remind you.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Star Wars: Uncut

Greedo shot first. Han shot his own movie.

Movie Reviews & Stories A long time ago, a USC student named George transformed his love of Buck Rogers serials, pulp novels and Japanese cinema into the greatest space-opera film of all time. Since then, he’s redeco More

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 NATHAN CARSON

Beer Bash

Seriously, who picked the flicks for the 2012 Beer and Movie lineup?

Movie Reviews & Stories 1000101011101010101. That’s the opening pixel of Conan the Barbarian as it will appear to future audiences. Good ol’-fashioned film is dying, fast, as cheaper, digital projectors now control a More

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Arab Spring Awakenings

No justice, no peace. But mostly no peace.

Movie Reviews & Stories Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story 63 Docking in Portland as the opening-night selection of the 22nd Annual Cascade Festival of African Films, this 2009 picture from Egypt contains a number of images More

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 AARON MESH

Half-Baked Alaska

Movies that can see Russia from their house.

Movie Reviews & Stories Big Miracle58 About 15 minutes into the new inspirational family film Big Miracle, an insufferable Drew Barrymore exclaims, “But this is different—whales are in danger!” I rolled my eyes so ha More

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Save the Last Dance 3-D

Wim Wenders pays his three-dimensional respects to Pina.

Movie Reviews & Stories Up to now, 3-D in film has been an enterprise largely extraneous to the character of film itself: moviedom’s version of the 10,000 love-fattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque More

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Albert Nobbs

You can call him Al.

Movie Reviews & Stories The gender-bending Albert Nobbs offers a buy-one-get-one-free coupon of butch, with two central heroines masquerading as dudes. The titular Albert (Glenn Close) is an awkward, finicky little man More

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 PATRICIA SAUTHOFF

Airplane!

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a cloying atrocity.

Movie Reviews & Stories From Billy Elliot to The Hours to The Reader, director Stephen Daldry has turned repressing your sexuality into something the upper class can feel sexy about. The people in his movies suffer the More

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 ALISTAIR ROCKOFF

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