Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Chance Solem-Pfeifer

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer is a film critic and arts journalist. He hosts "The Kick" movie podcast on the Now Playing Network and is a founding member of the Portland Critics Association.

Get Your Reps In: “The Heartbreak Kid” and Charles Grodin’s Irrational Irritation

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Get Your Reps In: The Wachowskis Were “Bound” for Greatness Since Their Debut Feature

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Get Your Reps In: “Trainspotting” Has Its Heroin Cake and Eats It Too

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Get Your Reps In: “Twister” Destroys Everything But True Love

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Get Your Reps In: “Paper Moon” and the Youngest Winner in Oscars History

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Get Your Reps In: “Moneyball” Plays Like a Period Piece

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

In “Why Dig When You Can Pluck,” Filmmaker Cambria Matlow Examines the Perils of Artistic Inspiration

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Oregon Film Museum

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Elizabeth Teets’ New Book and Hollywood Theatre Series “Isn’t She Great” Amplify the Voices of Women in Comedy

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Get Your Reps In: “Run Lola Run” Remains a Timeless Arthouse Adrenaline Hit

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Get Your Reps In: “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension” Plays With Multiple Dimensions and Non Sequiturs

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Get Your Reps In: “The Red Shoes” Reminds Us of the Real Price of Art

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Get Your Reps In: “The Wicker Man” May Be Cinema’s Most Iconic Pagan Horror Film

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Oregon Filmmaker Gary Lundgren Takes On the Inherent Biases of the Criminal Justice System in “Above the Trees”

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Get Your Reps In: Coen Brothers’ Debut “Blood Simple” Holds One of the Late M. Emmet Walsh’s Strongest Performances

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer