Movie Reviews & Stories Instead of the usual mid-life displays of sports car and trophy companion, the NW Film Center’s regional festival is celebrating its 38th year
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Movie Reviews & Stories It is high time for another movie about the Lindbergh toddler, and who better to helm it than the man who directed Million Dollar Baby? Actually, Clint Eastwood’s best qualification for re-creating    More

Movie Reviews & Stories Everyone has friends like Jacob and Anna, the twentysomething couple at the center of Like Crazy. They’re the kind of young lovers who, once they start dating anyone seriously, become so completel   More

Movie Reviews & Stories When Pedro Almodovar’s Volver premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006, the hot topic was how Penelope Cruz’s ass was not Penelope Cruz’s ass.
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Movie Reviews & Stories It’s back. No, not the practical, affordable consumer electric car—despite the claims made in Chris Paine’s Who Killed the Electric Car?, such a thing had never really existed. No, the most prom   More

Movie Reviews & Stories As a member of a back-to-the-land cult in the Catskills, Marcy May’s boyfriend, Patrick, “cleanses” her and the rest of his flock with ritualized rape and shooting lessons. Sequestered away in   More

Movie Reviews & Stories “Film is over,” claimed Jean-Luc Godard in a recent interview with The Guardian. “It’s sad nobody is really exploring it.” On its surface, this seems an utterly daft overstatement. If his    More

Movie Reviews & Stories Most of us see the world through American eyes, contextualizing modern political struggles through selective memories. Whether consuming news from Libya, Iran or Occupied Portland, it’s impossibl   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Gil Reyes isn’t sure what to expect when he finally screens his 2009 film, Searching for Elliott Smith, in Portland on Friday, eight years after the singer’s death.   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Jeff Nichols’ sublime Take Shelter is a trenchant, contemporary American horror story, which means it is not about ghosts or demons but waiting for the other shoe to drop. More specifically, it   More