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Cartoonist John Callahan Was Offensive, Hilarious and One of Portland’s Own. Now, He’s Getting His Long-Delayed Close-Up.

The cartoonist, who was paralyzed in a car accident at age 21, made a career of pushing buttons.

Fireworks, the Waterfront Blues Festival and 12 Other Things to Do and See in Portland July 4-10

Where we’ll be catching the blues and digging deep to find something about America worth celebrating this week.

“Leave No Trace” Tells the True-ish Story of a Father and Daughter Living in Forest Park and Avoids Local Color

Leave No Trace, director Debra Granik’s adaptation of the 2007 novel My Abandonment, digs deep into the lingering questions raised by the pair’s sudden disappearance. But locals wondering about the fate of Tom (Thomasin McKenzie) and her troubled dad, Will (Ben Foster), shouldn’t anticipate any easy answers. Leave No Trace is a dreamy, nuanced reverie that’s dismissive of plot and shy on local color.

You Can See Gus Van Sant’s Upcoming Biopic on Irreverent Portland Cartoonist John Callahan a Month Before Its Wide Release

“Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot,” director Gus Van Sant’s new biopic about late Portland cartoonist John Callahan, doesn’t open nationally until July 13. But if you act quickly, you’ll get to see it a month early.

New Movie “Gemini” Is a Portland-Grown Vision of LA

“Gemini” unfolds like a languid dream. The film’s opening shot is of a row of distorted palm trees, inviting us into a neon-soaked Los Angeles. It follows Jill LeBeau (Lola Kirke) as she tries to solve a brutal murder, but the soft visual palette rejects any hard-boiled crime trappings. Pulsing beats and low-synthesized hums drift in and out of the soundscape, and LA is at the forefront of every scene.

Gorging on Pizza, Greek Easter and 12 Other Things to Do and See in Portland April 4-10

Get busy.

Lorde, Lesbian Bank Robbers and 12 Other Things to Do and See in Portland March 7-13

Where we’ll be singing about adultery and watching lesbians politely rob banks this week.

“A Fantastic Woman” Is a Moving Examination of Posthumous Rights for LGBTQ Partners

When Marina’s partner, Orlando, dies of a sudden aneurysm, she’s forced to face a gauntlet of indignities. In A Fantastic Woman, the Chilean drama from Sebastián Lelio, Marina, a transgender woman, is met at every turn with police, doctors and Orlando’s family who have probing questions and dark assumptions. It’s an affecting examination of posthumous rights and privileges for LGBTQ partners. But it never feels like a parable fashioned from headlines. Lelio aims deeper, imbuing his film with spectral hallucinations and apparitions of rage, disfigurement and grief.

Everything Is Terrible! Hopes to Build a Pyramid of Jerry Maguire VHS Tapes. In the Meantime, They’re Honoring Satan.

For their latest project, which is coming to Cinema 21 this week, Everything Is Terrible! consumed and recontextualized more than 2,000 VHS tapes into The Great Satan, a film made up of archaic videos pertaining to general religious kookery, D horror films and the satanic panic of the ’80s. That includes a gaggle of folks who once thought that Dungeons & Dragons was a gateway to child sacrifice and calling upon none other than Lucifer (whom Everything Is Terrible! lists as a “longtime collaborator”) to return to earth. The resulting work is a psychedelic mishmash of quaintly out-of-touch and out-of-context hilarity.

In Colossal, Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudekis Let Their Worst Selves Go on a Rampage

Cult director Nacho Vigalondo’s newest feature sends gigantic monsters through the friendzone.

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