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!
Happy Birthday, PUFF!
Buy the Portland Underground Film Fest a drink.
The Only Non-Biking Portlander
How does someone grow up in Portland and never ride a bike?
Cycle Secrets
Marital Meets Martial Arts
Jane Austen returns from the dead in Pride and Prejudice and
Zombies.
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 […]
Dark Aspects
Portland’s noir mixes literary with gore.
When Gypsies Attack
Yay! Drag Me to Hell is a great return to form for Sam Raimi.
The Lovely Hurt
Director Atom Egoyan’s got oodles of empathy in Adoration.
Stuck in a Room
Chill with a dozen angry men and their emotional baggage in 12.
All Heart, No Soul
George Pelecanos’ The Way Home is not quite a grand slam.
Perpetual Loop
Jim Jarmusch takes on ’60s crime flicks with The Limits of
Control.
