Movie Reviews & Stories Rust and Bone’s soundtrack features Bon Iver, “Love Shack” by the B-52s, and Katy Perry’s “Firework.” Such contrivances are rivaled only by the film’s implausible premise: A driven More
Rust and Bone
In which an orca bites off Marion Cotillard’s legs.
Movie Reviews & Stories Rust and Bone’s soundtrack features Bon Iver, “Love Shack” by the B-52s, and Katy Perry’s “Firework.” Such contrivances are rivaled only by the film’s implausible premise: A driven More
Mission: Impossible
As a disaster drama, The Impossible impresses. But its morals are swamped.
Movie Reviews & Stories It’s always tricky to criticize a film for what it fails to depict rather than for what it actually captures. But in The Impossible, the omission is so glaring that to disregard it would be to com More
GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
Pia Zadora ruins everything.
Movie Reviews & Stories When alums from TV’s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling reunite in a Vegas hotel more than 20 years after their show was canceled, three show up in wheelchairs. A few of the ambulatory ones boast to More
Gus: Co-Directors
Local filmmakers Gus Van Sant and Todd Haynes talk fracking, MTV and old Portland.
Movie Reviews & Stories Todd Haynes, the Portland-based Academy Award-nominated director of Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven and the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There agreed... More
Gus Among Us: Jon Raymond
We asked four Portlanders for their perspectives on Gus Van Sant. Here’s what they said.
Movie Reviews & Stories JON RAYMOND, Author I first laid eyes on Gus Van Sant sometime around 1990. It was at the Clinton Street Theater, and he was screening Mala Noche in the lead-up to the release of My Own Private Idaho More
Gus Among Us: Aaron Mesh
We asked four Portlanders for their perspectives on Gus Van Sant. Here’s what they said.
Movie Reviews & Stories AARON MESH, WW staff writer If you can bear it, now is the necessary time to return to Gus Van Sant’s Elephant. Next year marks the 10th anniversary of the director’s re-creation of the Colum More
Gus Among Us: James Westby
We asked four Portlanders for their perspectives on Gus Van Sant. Here’s what they said.
Movie Reviews & Stories JAMES WESTBY, Filmmaker In Last Days, famous and troubled musician Blake (Michael Pitt) gets a visit from a Yellow Pages salesman. Blake is wearing a dress with combat boots and can barely speak. More
Gus Among Us: Viva Las Vegas
We asked four Portlanders for their perspectives on Gus Van Sant. Here’s what they said.
Movie Reviews & Stories VIVA LAS VEGAS, Author and stripper Once upon a time (this is a fairy tale), late on a Tuesday night at Mary’s Club, a posse of handsome, well-dressed men entered the bar and quietly took seats More
The Best Things I Saw This Year 2012
Forget about a Top 10 list. Here are three Top Threes.
Movie Reviews & Stories 2012 has been a busy year on the WW film beat. In April, after five years at the helm, Aaron Mesh moved to the news desk. Matthew Singer replaced him until October, when he became music editor a More
No Land of Milk and Honey
Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land wears its heart on its well-tailored sleeve.
Movie Reviews & Stories There are shots in Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land that could be mistaken for shots in 1991’s My Own Private Idaho: beautiful pastoral scenes, rolling country roads More
Top Articles from Movie Reviews & Stories
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Ready or not, Portland gets an Elliott Smith documentary from Los Angeles. Do Me A Kindness
Winnebago Man searches for what’s behind the myth of Jack Rebney. FACT OR FICTION?
The documentary Grizzly Man seems a bit too strange to be true. Fun Size
A long, disgusting search for Shorty. Inside Job
Watching the defective financial detectives. You’ve Got Female
POWFest returns with some disturbing news about baby-making. Documentaries About Death
Another Earth
It’s like someone poured bleach in my eyes. Self-Seriously Funny
Portlandia brings back pickling and other hobbies.
Ehren Mcghehey is Portland’s resident Jackass. (Now Injured In 3-D!) Missing Misery
Ready or not, Portland gets an Elliott Smith documentary from Los Angeles. Do Me A Kindness
Winnebago Man searches for what’s behind the myth of Jack Rebney. FACT OR FICTION?
The documentary Grizzly Man seems a bit too strange to be true. Fun Size
A long, disgusting search for Shorty. Inside Job
Watching the defective financial detectives. You’ve Got Female
POWFest returns with some disturbing news about baby-making. Documentaries About Death
Another Earth
It’s like someone poured bleach in my eyes. Self-Seriously Funny
Portlandia brings back pickling and other hobbies.
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