Cave of Misbegotten Dreams

Thinking about God, aliens and aryan androids in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.

Movie Reviews & Stories In Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s long-anticipated return to the science-fiction genre, the director confronts a... More

Jun 6, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

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Safety Not Guaranteed

Mumbling through time.

Movie Reviews & Stories There is something heartbreakingly true in witnessing a wizened writer in his mid-30s demand of an intern, “Why are you sitting there in front of that screen? You’re a young man!” Why are ... More

Jun 6, 2012 12:01 am by SAUNDRA SORENSON

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Enemy of the State

This Is Not a Film is a stirring act of mundane defiance.

Movie Reviews & Stories This Is Not a Film opens with Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi alone at his breakfast table, spreading jam on flatbread and talking to a friend over speakerphone. “I’m stuck in a problem,” he ... More

May 30, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

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The Color Wheel

It’s the incest comedy of the year!

Movie Reviews & Stories The opening credits of Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel use the same swollen font the first edition of Portnoy’s Complaint had on its front cover. That’s no accident: Both works are young men ... More

May 30, 2012 12:01 am by AARON MESH

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Just the Twos and Us

Will Smith sequels more necessary than Men in Black III.

Movie Reviews & Stories Something is terribly wrong with the world when we’re getting a third Men in Black movie and still don’t know what happened after... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER, AP KRYZA

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It’s Bill Plympton Day!

Celebrating Portland’s master of grotesque.

Movie Reviews & Stories Even in a town known for incubating distinctive animation talents, Portland-born Bill Plympton is special. Not only is he one of the most iconic animators currently working—his work is recogniza ... More

May 23, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

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Back to the Fringe

The Experimental Film Festival reconnects Portland’s avant-cinema community.

Movie Reviews & Stories Experimental media in Portland is fractured. If that meant abstruse, mind-splattering and totally fucking bonkers, it’d be a good thing. But it’s more literal. In the last three years, the loc ... More

May 16, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW SINGER

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Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

A little bit country, a little bit glam rock.

Movie Reviews & Stories It’s fitting that the flagship offering of the sixth annual Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival is Jeffrey Schwarz’s Vito (7 pm Sunday, May 20), a eulogy for the man who documented the depi ... More

May 16, 2012 12:01 am by SAUNDRA SORENSON

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Thinking about God, aliens and aryan androids in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.

Wes Anderson’s first boner.

Mumbling through time.

We need to talk about Cyril.

This Is Not a Film is a stirring act of mundane defiance.

It’s the casually racist buddy comedy of the year!

Thinking about God, aliens and aryan androids in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.

Wes Anderson’s first boner.

We need to talk about Cyril.

Mumbling through time.

This Is Not a Film is a stirring act of mundane defiance.

It’s the casually racist buddy comedy of the year!

It’s the incest comedy of the year!

How I lived with my mother.

Will Smith sequels more necessary than Men in Black III.

Moppets in motion.

Celebrating Portland’s master of grotesque.

Put down the cellphone, squid brain.

The Experimental Film Festival reconnects Portland’s avant-cinema community.

Texas is the reason the old lady’s dead.

A little bit country, a little bit glam rock.

Man versus wild.