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The latest in a tide of seasonal ensemble films that play like Short Cuts or Magnolia for people with strong feelings about annual festivities, New Year’s Eve
insists that nothing ennobles the hum
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Mr. Murata, the tropical-fish vendor and serial killer who drives the Japanese horror fantasia Cold Fish,
likes to describe what he does to his victims as “making them
invisible.” He accomplis
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David Walker pays tribute to Tom Shaw and other bad PDX filmmakers.
Movie Reviews & Stories
Our cinemas are being overrun with garbage, and it’s glorious.
Portland’s hunger for
all things trashy has hit a nexus, flooding cinemas with amateurish
depravity. Hollywood Theatre programm
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Lars von Trier’s restless formal experimentation makes him difficult to pin down, but the Dane responsible for Dancer in the Dark and Dogville tends toward an obsession with wretchedness. The result
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With The Muppets opening today to introduce a new generation to lonely monsters and wisecracking bears, WW called in its resident plushies to unstuff it.Aaron: So the new Muppet thing turns out to be
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George Clooney, who may be the closest thing we now have to a Cary Grant, seems of late to be reversing Grant’s career trajectory. While Grant went from pratfalling acrobat to ironically self-aware
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As Werner Herzog softens from Teutonic maniac into shutterbug German tourist, his documentaries have begun to resemble the adventures of Ernest P. Worrell. There was Werner Goes to Alaska, where he wa
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Martin Scorsese’s decision to helm the 3-D adaptation of Brian Selznick’s Caldecott-winning novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret seemed an odd and possibly addled one at first blush. But look at Sco
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How the Fire Fell
72 Joe Haege (31Knots frontman, part-time Menomena member)
stars as charismatic preacher Edmund Creffield... More