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Oz the Great and Powerful

Hello, yellow brick road.

Movie Reviews & Stories Watching the glorious spectacle that is James Franco feels like watching a great con man. Here’s a proven movie star who made an art film re-enacting the Al Pacino leather-daddy sex thriller Cru More

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 AP KRYZA

Lies My Multiplex Told Me

The Last Exorcism Part II and Hollywood’s appetite for deception.

Movie Reviews & Stories Apparently, one last go-around isn’t enough. At least that’s what this weekend’s debut of The Last Exorcism Part II: The Exorcisming seems to imply (it wasn’t screened for critics, or actual More

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 AP KRYZA

Jack the Giant Slayer

An English folktale, with extra potty humor.

Movie Reviews & Stories Jack and the Beanstalk is one of the few English folktales Americans know by heart. A peasant boy sells his abusive guardian’s livestock for some beans, the beans get wet, a beanstalk grows, a More

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 JOHN LOCANTHI

Last Whiff of PIFF

Saying goodbye to murderous tourists and horny priests.

Movie Reviews & Stories The Portland International Film Festival has aged quickly. Two short weeks ago, desperate young people fought for their identity. Last week, PIFF endured the slow burn of middle age. What greets u More

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 WW Staff

A PIFF Ahead

Already mourning the end of the Portland International Film Festival? Whet your appetite with early entries for PIFF 2014.

Movie Reviews & Stories PIFF is an intense but fleeting thing. It enters our lives for a few More

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 WW Staff

PIFFing the Night Away

PIFF knocks you down. But you get up again.

Movie Reviews & Stories If the Portland International Film Festival is a night out drinking, it’s time to rally. Though PIFF’s second week includes some real drags, keep the tab open: You’ll also find a few excepti More

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 WW Staff

Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse

The human soul behind the monster’s mask.

Movie Reviews & Stories Infuriating, tragic, heartbreaking and incendiary in equal measures, Portland filmmaker Brian Lindstrom’s Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse is a documentary that plays out like a horro More

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 AP KRYZA

PIFF 2013: Tonight, We Are Young

PIFF will set the world on fire, and burn brighter than the sun.

Movie Reviews & Stories Being a kid is tough these days. Whether children are being unfavorably compared to that hilarious little Honey Boo Boo, stripping down to their SpongeBob underwear for a search at elementary sc More

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 WW Staff

Side Effects

The girl with the Paxil tattoo.

Movie Reviews & Stories Warning: Steven Soderbergh’s new film may cause anxiety, frustration, terror, temporary memory loss, episodes of euphoria, Hitchcockian feelings of nostalgia, numbing, exhilaration, dread and More

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 AP KRYZA

A Fistful of Viagra

Christopher Walken and Al Pacino go slumming in Stand Up Guys.

Movie Reviews & Stories Europe is considerably kinder to its elder statesmen—at least where cinema is concerned. Michael Haneke’s dissection of octogenarian love, Amour, is a lock for the foreign-language Oscar, with More

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 AP KRYZA

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