The Portland Film Festival enters its second year.
Ben Coleman
Hello! I am a freelancer for the paper. I cover movies mostly, but sometimes video games, comic books, and whatever else comes up.
Posted inMovies & TV
Sturm und Dad
Into the Storm: A Movie That Features Fire Tornadoes
Into the Storm is a movie that features fire tornadoes.
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How to Scare People
Willow Creek: Bobcat Goldthwait Talks Bigfoot
Willow Creek: Bobcat Goldthwait talks Bigfoot.
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Bad Cop, Bad Cop
Filth: An Apocalyptic Wallow in the Taboo
Filth: an apocalyptic wallow in the taboo.
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Parallel Parkouring
Brick Mansions: Too Much Plot, Not Enough Jumping
Brick Mansions: too much plot, not enough jumping.
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Good Ol' Rummy
Donald Rumsfeld: Your Friend and Mine!
Errol Morris’ The Unknown Known interrogates Donald Rumsfeld.
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Remixed McFly
The Redo Series: Back to the Future, As You Haven’t Seen It Before
The Redo Series presents Back to the Future—as you haven’t seen it before.
Posted inGeneral
Going Home
With Gone Home, Portlanders Have Made One of the Medium’s Best—and Most Important—Video Games
With Gone Home, Portlanders have made one of the medium’s best—and most important—video games.
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Waves and Waves and Waves
Wave Hello to Storm Surfers 3D!
Wave hello to Storm Surfers 3D!
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Tyler Mane on Compound Fracture and Toxic Pee
COMPOUND FRACTURE Sabretooth! Look out! Last week, Tyler Mane, who was Sabretooth in the first X-Men movie and a bunch of other big guys in a bunch of other cool movies, asked me to meet him at Voodoo Doughnuts for an interview. Since Voodoo Doughnuts doesn’t actually have anywhere to sit down, we ducked into […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Comics Night at the Opera: Falstaff
Paul Guinan This is a thing that happens in the opera. The Portland Opera had one of their cartoonist invitationals last week, which also meant that I got to livetweet through my second consecutive opera (you can see my findings on the first one here). The production was great as usual, although due to the […]