★ 70mm Screenings The Hollywood’s doing another weekend-long series of 70mm screenings. This time: West Side Story, The Untouchables, and Lifeforce. Hey, two of those are good! (Hollywood Theatre, Sat June 15-Sun June 16) ERIK HENRIKSEN Big Little Lies Originally designed as a one-and-done, the huge success of Big Little Lies means we’re getting more—more […]
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With honor and distinction, Erik Henriksen served as the executive editor of the Portland Mercury from 2004 to 2020. He can now be found at henriksenactual.com.
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Fans Have Been Waiting 13 Years for Tonight’s Deadwood Movie. It Doesn’t Disappoint.
WARRICK PAGE / HBO “That left-cheek ass-blister’s a percolating son of a bitch,” mutters Calamity Jane, shifting in her saddle as she drunkenly steers her horse toward Deadwood, South Dakota. It’s been a decade since the hard-drinking, hard-punching Jane—played, phenomenally as ever, by Robin Weigert—has stumbled through the frontier town’s muddy, bloody streets and smoky, […]
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Our Trails Too Offers a Look at a Better, More Inclusive Wilderness
Our Trails Too As anyone who’s recently been on a trail in the Pacific Northwest can attest, hiking, backpacking, and camping in Oregon and Washington are more popular than ever. But as trailheads within driving distance of Portland become crammed with a very specific kind of hiker—day-trippers with selfie sticks and still-creased Patagonia gear—something else […]
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The 18 Best Movies and Shows to Watch in Portland: May 24-June 6
Aladdin Disney’s live-action remake of 1992’s Aladdin is a loud, obnoxious concoction of demographic targeting, corporation-backed nostalgia pandering, and ugly CGI. It has all the urgency of a (very expensive) piece of community theater and all the artistry of a quarterly earnings report. Yet this ungainly, garish thing is not as detestable as these ingredients […]
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Deadwood: The Movie Review: Back to the Mud, Back to the Blood
Deadwood: The Movie Review: Heading back to the mud and back to the blood.
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From Hikes to Scabies, the Best Portland Parks for Your Summer Needs
Portland’s got great parks! Okay, so we also have some creepy, super sketchy parks. But most of our parks are great! Regardless of how you want to waste your days this summer, there’s a place in or near the city that’s the perfect spot. BEST PARKS FOR HIKING There are a ton of great hiking […]
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All Three Portland-Area Cinetopia Theaters Abruptly Close
Cinetopia Progress Ridge 14 Google Maps [UPDATE 5/23: Cinetopia is being taken over by AMC Theatres. Full report here.] ORIGINAL POST: As first reported by Anthony Macuk and Allan Brettman at The Columbian, all three Portland-area locations of the high-end Cinetopia movie theater chain—which had two outposts in Vancouver, WA, and one in Beaverton—have abruptly […]
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How to Hike in and Around Portland
One of the things that’s gotten increasingly difficult to enjoy as Portland’s population swells and great swaths of Oregon catch on fire: HIKING. Luckily, there are still plenty of ways to hit the trail in and around Portland. It’s good to keep a few tricks in mind to help avoid the crowds (go early in […]
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Game of Thrones Discussion Group: Episode 6 – “The Iron Throne”
Courtesy of HBO That’s all, folks. Game of Thrones cashed in its chips last night, with the HBO show airing its final episode amid a firestorm of controversy. Some fans hated the direction the show took during its final lap, while others were satisfied with all of the explode-y things and unearned character beats. As […]
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Meeting Gorbachev Review: Werner Herzog Talks with the Former Soviet Leader, and Also Discusses How to Kill Slugs
A&E Networks “Mikhail Sergeyevich, please allow me to explain myself,” says Werner Herzog. “I am a German, and the first German that you probably met wanted to kill you.” So begins Herzog’s affecting documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev, built chiefly around three conversations with the former leader of the Soviet Union—a once-titanic figure who, at age […]
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Aniara Review: Trapped On a Spaceship, Staring Into the Abyss
Magnet Releasing “Hell is other people,” goes the Sartre quote, a thought that gets thoroughly examined in the Swedish Aniara, a bleak, gorgeous science-fiction film in which the sun-scarred residents of a climate-ravaged Earth board a massive spaceship to begin a “happy, new life on Mars.” Naturally, a collision promptly knocks the ship off course, […]
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Here’s the First Trailer for Stumptown, the Portland-Set TV Series Based on the Portland-Made Comic
Stumptown, by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth, via Oni Press A gritty-but-fun noir comic with sharp writing and gorgeous art, writer Greg Rucka and artist Matthew Southworth’s Stumptown is getting turned into a series for ABC, starring The Avengers‘ Cobie Smulders. Now we’ve got our first look at the show, via a trailer from Slate. […]