My Sister’s Keeper unabashedly kicks the crap out of your tearducts.
Courtney Ferguson
Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!
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Happy Birthday, PUFF!
Buy the Portland Underground Film Fest a Drink
Buy the Portland Underground Film Fest a drink.
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The Only Non-Biking Portlander
The Dirty Secret of a Portland Native
How does someone grow up in Portland and never ride a bike?
Cycle Secrets
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Marital Meets Martial Arts
Jane Austen Returns from the Dead in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Jane Austen returns from the dead in Pride and Prejudice and
Zombies.
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There’s an Eel in Her WHAT?!
I’m pretty stoked for some rare ’80s grindhouse from the ever-steady Grindhouse Film Fest this weekend—they mostly favor ’70s films. On the double-bill docket: Lady Terminator and The Slumber Party Massacre. What Grindhouse has to say about Lady Terminator: A beautiful woman is possessed by an ancient mystical queen out for vengeance, turning her into […]
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Dark Aspects
Get All Moody with Portland Noir
Portland’s noir mixes literary with gore.
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When Gypsies Attack
Sam Raimi Returns to Form with Drag Me to Hell
Yay! Drag Me to Hell is a great return to form for Sam Raimi.
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The Lovely Hurt
Empathy, Pain, and Atom Egoyan’s Adoration
Director Atom Egoyan’s got oodles of empathy in Adoration.
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Stuck in a Room
With Angry Men and Their Emotional Baggage in 12
Chill with a dozen angry men and their emotional baggage in 12.
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All Heart, No Soul
George Pelecanos’ The Way Home Is Not Quite a Grand Slam
George Pelecanos’ The Way Home is not quite a grand slam.
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Perpetual Loop
Jim Jarmusch’s Take on ’60s Crime Flicks
Jim Jarmusch takes on ’60s crime flicks with The Limits of
Control.