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Hello! I am a freelancer for the paper. I cover movies mostly, but sometimes video games, comic books, and whatever else comes up.
At Portland’s game jams, aspiring video game developers are making indie games—in less than 48 hours.
WHERE TO INVADE NEXT dealwithit.gif Michael Moore is a filmmaker I associate with high school, the same way members of the previous generation like to namedrop John Hughes and then never shut up about him. The major events of my teenage years were the Columbine shooting in 1999, and the September 11 attacks in 2001, […]
Iceland! No, wait! Norway! No, wait! Germany?
RIDE ALONG 2 “No, I sold out more.” “No, I sold out more.” “FUCK YOU—I’m the BIGGEST sellout!” The modern buddy cop action comedy requires a precise mixture of elements. You need to move the audience from heavy themes like cocaine trafficking and police brutality to sitcom-style goof-ups and pratfalls, and then repeat that process […]
Of action, slapstick, and T&A.
POINT BREAK Alternate knuckle tattoos: “FUCK” and “THIS.” When I heard there was going to be a remake of Point Break, I wasn’t worried. “Surfers rob banks in order to obtain ultimate rush” is a timeless tale that could be updated to include any number of topical sports and financial institutions, right? Not even noted […]
Thanks for nothing, shitty new Point Break.
DANGEROUS MEN “YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGHAAAAAAARRRG—” The are perfect films. The Third Man is a work of filmmaking that will last 1,000 years and define the era that made it. Then there are great films, like Mad Max: Fury Road. Then after that are the good films (Mrs. Doubtfire). Then the inoffensive (Hope Floats). Then the slightly disappointing […]
This is the fetid crevasse where filmic storytelling goes to die.
In which Bill Murray Bill Murrays it up.
BEASTS OF NO NATION Guaranteed to be better than season two of True Detective. White people only show up for about seven seconds in Beasts of No Nation. Agu (Abraham Attah), a West African child solider, is trudging down a road with the rest of the Commandant’s (Idris Elba) “battalion” of heavily armed adolescents when […]
The deft hand—and brutal efficiency—of Cory Fukunaga.
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