Movie Reviews & Stories Gomorrah begins with an otherworldly image of a man bathed in blue light, and it’s apt that one of the few moments that show us actual mobsters doing actual mob things evokes the notion of an al ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Some of the best films of last year are just now trickling into Portland, and one of them, Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir, is also one of the best films ever made about the experience of war&mda ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Something’s not right when a movie made in the aughts is cheesier than the 1950s movie it’s a remake of, a movie famous for its iconic image of a Jiffy-Pop-style flying saucer settling dow ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories The Vuillards are getting together for the holidays, which, as per the holiday film genre, creates a terrible nexus of dysfunction, constructed family member by family member, like a malignant Voltron ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories If the Harmony Korine-scripted Kids notoriously lacked a moral compass, his first film as a director, Gummo, had no compass at all. It seemed to invent a dizzying new language of cinema, like French N ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Long before Be Kind Rewind sparked a legion of fan films on YouTube, three Mississippi kids crafted what is now known as Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, an amazing homemade replica of their f ...   More