We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

Transparency made transparent.

Movie Reviews & Stories When Julian Assange exploded into the public consciousness as the face behind WikiLeaks, in the wake of the site’s publication of previously secret war logs from Afghanistan and Iraq, nearly eve   More

 

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 AP KRYZA

Sightseers

Of homicide and pencil museums.

Movie Reviews & Stories Ben Wheatley’s first two films—the gangster flick Down Terrace and the occult hit-man horror film Kill List—are marked by tendencies to genre hop in ways both stimulating and dumbfounding, m   More

 

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 AP KRYZA

Stagged in the Back

Portland’s pro Ultimate Frisbee team struggles with credibility and the defection of a local star to rival Seattle.

Culture There’s a roar from the stands at the Roosevelt High School football field—the kind usually heard only on those brisk fall nights when the Roughriders take the turf. A player dives, arms out   More

 

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 AP KRYZA

Epic

Seeing the forest for the trees full of tiny soldiers.

Movie Reviews & Stories The words “from the makers of Ice Age and Robots” and “starring the voices of Beyoncé, Pitbull and Steven Tyler” don’t exactly inspire confidence in a summer animated release. In fact,    More

 

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 AP KRYZA

Warp Speed: Star Trek Into Darkness Reviewed

Movies & Television Despite having been released in countries across the universe (well, world) to enthusiastic response, Paramount refused to screen Star Trek Into Darkness before WW press deadlines. (We revisited some Star Trek flops.) Critic AP Kryza deems it worth the wait.   More

 

Thursday, May 16, 2013 by AP KRYZA

The Iceman

A true-crime nightmare that’s completely cold.

Movie Reviews & Stories Michael Shannon—whose hot streak of late includes 2011’s best (and most overlooked) performance in Take Shelter—has steadily built a catalog that dips into a huge swath of roles, from heroes   More

 

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 AP KRYZA

Man in the Can

Marvel kills it with the terrifically entertaining Iron Man 3.

Movie Reviews & Stories The modern superhero trilogy has a very specific arc. There’s the origin story, in which an everyman stumbles into great power. In round two, the world turns on said hero as he faces greater t   More

 

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 AP KRYZA

Mud

Growing up in a swift current.

Movie Reviews & Stories As with many stories about coming of age under harsh circumstances, a mighty river runs through the center of Jeff Nichols’ Mud, a Southern-fried fable about two adolescent Arkansas boys whose c   More

 

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 AP KRYZA

Room 237

All theory and no play makes Jack an obsessive.

Movie Reviews & Stories We tend to project ourselves onto art. We take a story as a reflection of our own experiences, or we interject our own theories about what an artist really means. Every English teacher does it,    More

 

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 AP KRYZA

Album Review: Old Light

Time (Self-Released)

Album Reviews [CABBIE TUNES] Portland’s Old Light has been on one hell of a weird trajectory. The project started as a series of autoharp-intensive recordings frontman Garth Klippert played for passengers i   More

 

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 AP KRYZA