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Elinor Jones
Elinor Jones writes the gossip column, THE TRASH REPORT, as well as movie reviews, and dinosaur stuff. She likes your lipstick.
Posted inMovies & TV
Slightly Painful
Mental Illness, Fanny Packs, and Welcome to Me
Welcome to Me is the Napoleon Dynamite remake you didn’t ask for.
Posted inGeneral
Raccoons: Nature’s Monsters
… And Other Urban Demons We Should Equally Hate
Raccoons: Nature’s monsters or just the worst animal ever?
Posted inMovies & TV
Film Review: Will Smith, Focus, and the New Willennium
FOCUS is a misleading title: To enjoy this movie as much as you ought to, I recommend not paying attention to the details. If you do, you’ll find a lot of holes, and that will take away from what a treat this movie is. And take it from me, you won’t need to understand. Will […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Just the Two of Us
Will Smith, Focus, and the New Willennium
Will Smith, Focus, and the new Willennium.
Posted inMovies & TV
Her?
The DUFF: Not Ugly, Not Fat, Not Terrible
The DUFF: not ugly, not fat, not terrible.
Posted inMovies & TV
Pitch (Mostly) Perfect
Singing About Divorce in The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years: Surprising no one, I enjoyed an Anna Kendrick musical!
Posted inMovies & TV
Blech
Fifty Shades of Grey: It’s No Discount Vibrator!
Fifty Shades of Grey: It’s no discount vibrator!
Posted inMovies & TV
Guns, Girls, and Feelz
Zero Motivation: The Israeli Army Is… Kinda Fun?
Zero Motivation makes compulsory service in the Israeli Army look… kinda fun?
Posted inMovies & TV
Bros Before Hos
The Wedding Ringer: Finally, A Movie for Men!
The Wedding Ringer: Finally, a movie for men!
Posted inMovies & TV
Witches Can Be Good
Get Into the Woods! All the Way! There Ya Go.
Into the Woods: Get into them! All the way! There ya go.
Posted inPortland
The Wild Red Carpet Event of Our Lives!
Last night, Cinema 21 hosted a red carpet premiere of the new movie Wild, based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir and starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern. I met Laura Dern! And other things happened. OMG I wasn’t in town during the press screening for Wild, but the Mercury still sent me out to cover this […]