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: 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
Les Misérables
More of a nightmare than a dream.
Movie Reviews & Stories Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables lives up to its name. With the exception of about 10 minutes, the nearly three-hour film is an endless wallow in the fields of squalor, filth, chancre and herpes. More
Unchained and Unrestrained
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is certainly cool. But is that enough?
Movie Reviews & Stories Give Quentin Tarantino this much: He’s got balls. Imagine entering a meeting with a major studio, as a successful white director
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This Is 40
Potty humor knows no age.
Movie Reviews & Stories Judd Apatow’s latest undertaking, This Is 40, revisits Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann), the churlish yet lovable couple first introduced in Knocked Up. Fording the frigid waters of their More
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
Norman Rockwell, by way of Alfred Hitchcock.
Movie Reviews & Stories The photographer Gregory Crewdson has been described as “Norman Rockwell meets Norman Bates.” Like Rockwell, Crewdson captures small and ordinary More
Middle Earth Gets a Makeover
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a breathless, crackling adventure.
Movie Reviews & Stories By the time Peter Jackson wrapped his sterling Lord of the Rings trilogy, audiences had spent nearly 12 hours in Middle Earth, marveling at the... More
From House Seat to Director’s Chair
David Edwards masterminds his own mythology.
Movie Reviews & Stories Legislator-turned-filmmaker David Edwards wants to make one thing very clear: Nightscape, his debut feature, is not political commentary. It’s a fair disclaimer. The supernatural horror film, wh More
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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. FACT OR FICTION?
The documentary Grizzly Man seems a bit too strange to be true. Do Me A Kindness
Winnebago Man searches for what’s behind the myth of Jack Rebney. 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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