Wilhelm’s Mausoleum Courtney Ferguson It’s almost here! Memorial Day is the one day of the year that the Wilhelm Mausoleum (6705 SE 14th) opens to the public. Monday’s open house is from 11 am-6 pm (may close earlier depending on crowds). There’s usually popcorn, and more urns, miles of memorials, and shag carpet than you’ve […]
Courtney Ferguson
Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!
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Full of Secrets
Revisiting The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
Revisiting The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.
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M. Night Shyamalan’s Bananas Split
The Twist Is That It’s Okay!
The twist is that it’s okay!
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PDXtreme Film Fest Is Therapy for Your Existential Dread
How’s everyone doing out there? I don’t know about y’all, but I feel a little numb. A little dead inside. A little lost. And when I get that feeling, I like to turn to the revitalizing powers of horror to guide me back to the light—even if that light involves eviscerated teenager guts and fleeing […]
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Embrace the Blood and Guts of the PDXtreme Film Fest
In These Dark, Dark Days
In these dark, dark days.
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H-E-R-E-S-O-U-R-R-E-V-I-E-W-O-F-O-U-I-J-A-O-R-I-G-I-N-O-F-E-V-I-L
I mined the joke depths of using a board game as the inspiration for a horror movie back when the original Ouija came out [“Spirit Bored,” Film, Oct 22, 2014], but fortunately, it’s a rich tapestry. With the sequel, Ouija: Origin of Evil, the stage is now set for a veritable bonanza of BOARD GAME […]
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Calling the Spirits of Ouija
What Is the Origin of Evil? (Hint: It’s Made by Hasbro)
What is the Origin of Evil? (Hint: It’s made by Hasbro.)
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Blair Witch: 2016 Edition Is A Tired Retread From Talented Filmmakers
Sure, there was nothing technically wrong with Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of Psycho, but it sure did lack a certain something. The shot-by-shot remake of Hitchcock’s classic suffered from a slavish devotion to its source material—and Blair Witch, the sequel to 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, suffers from the same flat-line syndrome. There’s nothing […]
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In Which We Revisit the Woods of the Blair Witch
And Get Sad Because They’re Exactly the Same
And get sad because they’re exactly the same.
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And I’m Out!
A Lady Who Worked at a Place cat & beard Hey guys, It’s my last day as the Mercury‘s copy chief. SO MANY FEELINGS, but it’s been a great 11 years (!?) filled with the best coworkers and experiences ever. I’m off to a new editor job at CMD, a creative agency in Northwest Portland. […]
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Behold Multiple Maniacs, John Waters’ Disgusting, Wonderful Piece of Juvenilia
Mink Stole has bloodlust after seeing Divine stab Mary Vivian Pearce to death. Stole plays a religious whore—a woman who puts churchgoers through the Stations of the Cross, you know, erotically—and she’s decked out in Gloria Swanson glamour. “Isn’t there anybody else we could do it on?” she asks, her caterpillar-thick eyelashes fluttering as she […]
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A Thing of Wonder and Revulsion: John Waters’ Multiple Maniacs
John Waters’ Long Lost Classic Is Simply Divine.
It’s simply Divine.