No Guts, No Glory Holes

The Portland Underground Film Festival cleans itself up.

Movie Reviews & Stories In the early 2000s, former Clinton Street Theater owner Seth Sonstein founded the Portland Underground Film Festival. His mission...   More

 

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER, CHRIS STAMM

Magic Mike

Steven Soderbergh’s thong song.

Movie Reviews & Stories Odds were that Steven Soderbergh’s career of genre hopscotching would eventually land on a male stripper movie. Taking bits from Midnight Cowboy, Boogie Nights and, strangely, Coyote Ugly, the   More

 

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

The Younger Games

Pixar takes a step back with Brave.

Movie Reviews & Stories Can it really be true that through a dozen films, Pixar—the North American animation titan celebrated for its multilayered storytelling and uncommonly complex characters—declined to come up wi   More

 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Surviving Progress

Spoiler alert: We’re all screwed.

Movie Reviews & Stories Surviving Progress, Mathieu Roy and Harold Crook’s harangue against modern civilization, is Seeking a Friend for the End of the World for those who prefer their pre-apocalypse movies aggressively    More

 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Primer: The Men

Music Stories Formed: 2008 in New York City.  Sounds like: Our Band Could Be Your Life come to life, standing on a Brooklyn street corner circa 2012 and wondering aloud why everything is so goddamned quie   More

 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Summer Guide 2012: Grow Your Own

Marisha Auerbach is growing all of her own produce—in a typical yard.

Featured Stories Abundance is the spice of Marisha Auerbach’s life. As she guides me through the deliberately plotted pathways of her backyard garden on a cautiously sunny Saturday afternoon, dressed in pink o   More

 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Heavy Muddle

Rock of Ages will bash your brains in, and not in the good way.

Movie Reviews & Stories At the 2009 Tony Awards, Poison singer Bret Michaels performed his band’s 20-year-old party anthem “Nothin’ but a Good Time” in conjunction with Rock of Ages, a Broadway musical glorifying   More

 

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Whine Tasting With Adam Sandler

Parsing the not-many voices of America’s laziest comedian.

Movie Reviews & Stories At this point, it’s clear Adam Sandler is just trolling us. He’s self-aware enough to know he’s the laziest, most cash-grabbingest comic actor in the country. You can’t even hate him for    More

 

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Q&A: Nick Kroll

TV’s most diabolical genius talks characters, cretins and cavemen.

Performance Nick Kroll isn’t a spiteful, paranoid, self-centered prick, he just plays one on TV. On FX’s The League, the 34-year-old stand-up comic and actor portrays Rodney Ruxin, a Napoleonic product li   More

 

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Purple Rain

Purify yourself.

Brew Views It’s a testament to Prince’s musical genius that no one remembers Purple Rain for the horrendous acting and blatant misogyny. If he hadn’t written the greatest movie soundtrack of all time t   More

 

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER