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Reel Music 26

Texans fiddle while Cab burns.

Movie Reviews & Stories Cab Calloway: Sketches 60 Few musicians whom I grew up worshipping stand taller and prouder in my memory than Cab Calloway. With his big band swing-blues, his unconventional dance moves and his ree More

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 CASEY JARMAN

Love Sometimes Fails

This year’s PLGFF is a festival of missed connections.

Movie Reviews & Stories The 15th annual Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival starts on a poignant note this weekend—the fest’s best films are about...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011 AARON MESH, MAGGIE SUMMERS

50/50

The 27-year-old cancer patient.

Movie Reviews & Stories The best scene in cancer comedy 50/50 is wordless: Newly diagnosed with a malignant nerve sheath sarcoma, Joseph Gordon-Levitt wanders the halls of a Seattle oncology ward stoned out of his gourd. More

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 AARON MESH

Festival of New Spanish Cinema

If the kidnappers don’t get you, the kids will.

Movie Reviews & Stories Kidnapped76 Michael Haneke’s Funny Games was just a bit too touchy feely, don’t you think? And Gaspar Noé’s excruciating long takes in Irreversible were not quite excruciating and long enough, More

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 WW Film Staff

Easy A’s

Brad Pitt goes yard in Moneyball.

Movie Reviews & Stories As of this writing, the Oakland Athletics (full disclosure: my Oakland Athletics), who have not posted a winning season since 2006, are 18 games out of first place in the American League West, a div More

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 CHRIS STAMM

World on a Wire

Fassbinder's mind-bender.

Movie Reviews & Stories The great German dervish Rainer Werner Fassbinder, still only 27 years old and already fairly deep into a frantic career of unceasing productivity—he seemed to know he would die young—dipped his More

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 CHRIS STAMM

Pearl Jam Twenty

We unleashed a lion.

Movie Reviews & Stories Pearl Jam Twenty is a Pearl Jam-approved Pearl Jam documentary. So you already know what to expect from it: Pearl Jam’s members will appear all humble and smiley; Pearl Jam’s peers will talk ab More

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 CASEY JARMAN

Solitary Bagman

Ryan Gosling would do anything for love in Drive. Yep, anything. Even that.

Movie Reviews & Stories There is no safer feeling than driving alone at night. You have the illusion of control, the freedom of speed, and the assurance (not even half true) that if you make a mistake, only you will have t More

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 AARON MESH

Life, Above All

What we talk about when we don’t talk about AIDS.

Movie Reviews & Stories Chanda (Khomotso Manyaka) hasn’t been to school much lately. She has to bury her baby sister, and take her drunken stepfather’s bicycle to pay for the coffin. Her father is dead, her mother (Le More

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 ANN LEWINSON

It's a Riot!

In Attack the Block, London gang violence goes extraterrestrial.

Movie Reviews & Stories This year, aliens have transformed into expensive cars, battled cowboys, taken bong rips, laid waste to Chicago and L.A., donned magic rings, attacked astronauts, kidnapped our mothers and written More

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 AP KRYZA

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