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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.
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Fact: The Laws of God and Man Are Suspended During an Eclipse.
Plan Accordingly.
Plan accordingly.
Posted inMovies & TV
Ana Lily Amirpour Strikes Out with Her Latest
The Guns, Cannibals, and Revenge of The Bad Batch
The guns, cannibals, and revenge of The Bad Batch
Posted inMovies & TV
It Comes at Night Balances Hope and Despair in a Dying World
Trey Edward Shults Illustrates a Soft Apocalypse
Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes at Night illustrates a soft apocalypse.
Posted inMovies & TV
A Very Sophisticated Review of Wakefield
“Wow, this feels like the movie version of a New Yorker short story,” I thought while watching Wakefield and feeling extremely sophisticated. “I should work that into my review!” I thought. “Something along the lines of, ‘If you enjoy wealthy middle-aged suburbanites in search of authenticity,’ and so on.” This was going to be a […]
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Wakefield Is Like The New Yorker! But a Movie!
How Very Sophisticated!
How very sophisticated!
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A Report From the Overlook Film Festival: Tension and Drama (And Some Monsters and Entrails)
No one got murdered, but we were all pretty much asking for it. Ben Coleman This past weekend, the first-ever Overlook Film Festival took place at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood. Mercury writer Ben Coleman was there, checking out the scene and the movies—when he wasn’t being all scared. The first question I bet you […]
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This Weekend on Mt. Hood, the Overlook Film Fest Offers Horror, Games, and Cannibals
The Overlook Film Festival is four days of contemporary horror cinema contained entirely in the frosty confines of Mt. Hood’s Timberline Lodge. “Oh, ‘Overlook!’” you say. “Like the hotel in The Shining, right?” Please don’t interrupt, but yes. “And Timberline is where they shot The Shining, right?” Well actually, only the exteriors. The interiors were […]
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The Overlook Film Festival Shines
Horror Movies in the Woods? WHAT COULD GO WRONG
Horror movies in the woods? WHAT COULD GO WRONG
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Donald Cried and the Comedy of Humiliation
Donald Cried traffics in the comedy of humiliation, and full disclosure: I can barely make it through an episode of the American The Office. So a movie like this, where grown men socially eviscerate themselves in very grounded scenarios… to me, it’s like eating handfuls of bullion cubes. But if you’re a fan of the […]
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Schadenfreude Espresso
Donald Cried and the Comedy of Humiliation
Donald Cried and the comedy of humiliation.
Posted inArts
Laura E. Hall, Escape Artist
Get Trapped With Portland’s Leading Escape Room Designer
Get trapped with Portland’s leading escape room designer.