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...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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