Movie Reviews & Stories
In this metafictional rom-com, Paul Dano plays a
bestselling novelist named Calvin Weir-Fields, a onetime prodigy whose
genius peaked with the epoch-defining book he published at age 19. In
the
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The host of IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! wants to know: What’s in Ben Stiller’s wallet?
Performance
In the world of comedy podcasting, Scott Aukerman is David
Letterman to Marc Maron’s Charlie Rose. Where the latter’s much-praised
WTF deconstructs the craft of comedy through sometimes painfu
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Food & DrinkWe made it! 31 ice creams in 31 days. A big thanks to all the WW writers who offered their stomachs up to the higher calling of dessert journalism, everyone who suggested ice cream vendors to try, to the scoop slingers of Portland who kept us well nourished on our travels, and to you, dear reader, for joining us. Look out for more in Wednesday'...More
Brew Views
It’s well acknowledged that the best part of Grindhouse—the
2007 Quentin Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez experiment in throwback
exploitation—were the fake trailers that buffered the actual films
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Movies & Television
A bit of context: The Dark Knight Rises, the closing chapter of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and arguably the biggest pop-culture event of the year, screened for critics at 10 am on WW's press day the week of its release, forcing us to publish a hastily written "quick hit" review in the current print edition and hold a longer review for the Web. This review was completed Friday. But in the a...
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Movies & Television
Who cares about the Emmys? Am I right, Portland? We don't even own televisions here! We're all much too busy with intellectual pursuits like reading our neighbor's unpublished autobiographical graphic novel and participating in physical activities such as unicycle jousting to devote time to things as frivolous as sitcoms, serial dramas, reality programs and whatever the hell Hemingway and Gel...
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Holy inconvenient screening time! Inexplicably, the biggest movie of the year played for critics at 10 am on WW’s
press day. We went to the screening anyway, of course, and hastily
pecked out an
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Beasts of the Southern Wild is a damp, muggy, beautiful triumph.
Movie Reviews & Stories
In the Bathtub—the fictional Louisiana bayou settlement that forms the backdrop and lifeblood of the enchanting Beasts of the Southern Wild—the price of existing off the grid is living in waterlog
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Brew Views
Horny teenagers deserve to die. It’s the basic premise of the entire slasher genre, which arguably reached its apex with 1982’s Friday the 13th Part 3.
Mind you, that’s not because it’s any
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