Gift Guide
ReRun
707 NE Fremont St., 517-3786, portlandrerun.com.Neighborhood consignment shop ReRun is the coolest garage
and yard sale around. Outside, a sea of used furniture—both immaculate
and questi
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David Walker pays tribute to Tom Shaw and other bad PDX filmmakers.
Movie Reviews & Stories
Our cinemas are being overrun with garbage, and it’s glorious.
Portland’s hunger for
all things trashy has hit a nexus, flooding cinemas with amateurish
depravity. Hollywood Theatre programm
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Movie Reviews & Stories
With The Muppets opening today to introduce a new generation to lonely monsters and wisecracking bears, WW called in its resident plushies to unstuff it.Aaron: So the new Muppet thing turns out to be
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Movies & Television
Johnny Depp went gonzo again, but not by WW press deadlines. We have a belated review. (In good Hunter S. Thompson fashion, it was turned in on time by an intrepid reporter, but to a lazy editor who posted it four days late.)
The Rum Diary
WW Critic's Score: 62
Long before Raoul Duke descended on Vegas, before conquering the Kentucky Derby, prior to riding with the...
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Most of us see the world through American eyes,
contextualizing modern political struggles through selective memories.
Whether consuming news from Libya, Iran or Occupied Portland, it’s
impossibl
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Brew Views
Twin girls hacked to pieces. Torrents of blood spilling from an elevator. Shelley Duvall. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is full of creepy imagery. But it’s the film’s family dynamic that’s the
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Brew Views
Horror is driven by imitation, and there was no better
rip-off artist than Lucio Fulci. The Italian schlock-shock maestro built
a career nibbling from other, better movies. But perennial favorite Zo
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Movies & Television
This remake of the Sam Peckinpah rape-and-rage thriller was not screened for critics by press deadlines.
Straw Dogs
WW Critic's Score: 46
“That would be some kind of overkill,” says skinny blonde actress Amy Sumner (Kate Bosworth) as her dweeby screenwriter husband David (James Marsden) finds an old bear trap and asks whether her father used it to kill deer. They’ve ju...
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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
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Chicago epidemiologist Gary Slutkin likens societal
violence to bubonic plague in its capacity to spread uncontrollably
through a cycle of retribution and domination. His urban organization,
CeaseF
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