Your Weekly Roundup of New Movies: “Opera” is the Pinnacle of 2020’s Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts

Get Your Reps In: Here Are Our Top Five Films That Honor National Library Week

A Local High-Tech Magician Dials Up a Trick to Fool Penn and Teller

Loneliness Becomes Liveliness in Hand2Mouth and Moriviví’s “Distancias”

The New “Space Jam” Trailer Is Here, and So Is Our First Look at Damian Lillard as a Robot or Something

Back in 2019, it was reported that Lillard would play a “key role” in the film, along with fellow ballers Anthony Davis, Klay Thompson and Diana Taurasi, among others.

Portland-Area Regal Cinemas Will Begin Reopening This Month

In other states, Regal locations opened today for the first time in over a year. The newly opened theaters are all screening Godzilla vs. Kong, the dumb movie of the moment that has already spawned countless think pieces about how it needs to be seen on the big screen in order to full appreciate its dumbness.

Beverly Cleary’s Portland

I suspect I’m one of thousands of transplants whose first meaningful exposure to Portland was through Cleary’s books. It felt like a place where one could happily lead an ordinary life, with ordinary joys and ordinary difficulties. And she made it available to everyone, everywhere.

Portland Opera Has Released Its 2021-22 Schedule, Which Includes More Contemporary and Diverse Productions

The Portland Opera 2021-22 schedule will begin on Oct. 29 with the grand opening of Tosca at the Keller Auditorium, a show that was originally slated to be held last season. In all, audiences can expect four performances of the Puccini opera through Nov. 6. However, if COVID-19 reopening guidelines prevent the company from launching this fall, it will slide Tosca to mid-May, 2022.