“It is worse, much worse, than you think.โ So begins journalist David Wallace-Wellsโ The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, a book about climate change that reminds you, chapter after chapter, that even if you think you know how bad things are, and even if you think you know how much worse theyโre going to get, […]
Erik Henriksen
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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The Hellboy Reboot Is Bloody Awful, by Which I Mean It Is Bloody and Also It Is Awful
LIONSGATE / MARK ROGERS Well, this was a mistake. Eleven years after Guillermo del Toroโs second and final Hellboy movie comes this exhausted, exhausting reboot that’s drenched with pointless, joyless gore and scabbed over with dumb exposition and dumber jokes. Stranger Thingsโ David Harbour, taking over Hellboy’s horns from Ron Perlman, does his best to […]
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Star Wars Teaser? Star Wars Teaser!
LUCASFILM Star Wars teaser. Well, off to watch this obsessively for the next nine months! Goodbye!
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A Reading List for the End of the World: The Best, Weirdest, and Scariest Books About Climate Change
โIt is worse, much worse, than you think.โ So begins journalist David Wallace-Wellsโ The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, a book about climate change that reminds you, chapter after chapter, that even if you think you know how bad things are, and even if you think you know how much worse theyโre going to get, […]
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The 39 Best Movies and Shows to Watch in Portland: April 12-25
Airport Cinema Showcase A screening of the locally-made shorts currently playing at Hollywoodโs microcinema at the Portland airport, including Cindy Sullivanโs Stones, POW Girlsโ Great Expectations, David Van Aukenโs Carnatic Wave, and Rob Finchโs How Seamus Gets a Fish. (Sun April 14, Hollywood Theatre) โ Amazing Grace The double-platinum album Amazing Grace was recorded live, […]
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The Beach Bum Review: Garish, Gross, and Gorgeous, with McConaughey 2 the X-Treme
Neon โThat was profoundly meaninglessโ said my friend as we left the theater after Harmony Korineโs The Beach Bum, and she was profoundly correct. Whether you think โprofoundly meaninglessโ is a good thing, in this case, likely depends on how much entertainment value you derive from watching Matthew McConaughey, as titular beach bum Moondog, get […]
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He’s Baaaaaack: Steve Bannon Returns in The Brink
The Brink Magnolia Pictures Hey, remember this guy? What a piece of shit! Alison Klaymanโs fly-on-the-wall doc The Brink follows Bannon from 2017 to 2018, after Donald Trump, who lost the popular election by 2,864,974 votes, renamed him โSloppy Steveโ and booted him from the White House. Undeterred (and insisting he didnโt even like working […]
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What We’re Watching: The Guilty, Catastrophe, and A LOT of Nuns
Guilty Sundance Film Festival Hey, just what you need: More TV to watch! Here’s what we’re watching right now at Mercury HQ, which is another way of saying here’s what we think you should be watching right now. Wm. Steven Humphrey, Editor-in-ChiefHere’s a film from last year you may have missed: The Guilty, a Danish […]
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Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone Is Clever, Creepy, and Funโand Its First Episode Is Free on YouTube
CBS All Access Jordan Peele’s revival of The Twilight Zone starts tonight on CBS All Access, and, surprising no one, it is very good. At some point, Peele is going to make something that disappointsโhe is, I assume, only humanโbut even following his one-two punch of the phenomenal Get Out and the even-better Us, his […]
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What To Watch This Weekend: The POW Film Fest, Dumbo, and The Beach Bum
Tank Girl United Artists Welcome to What to Watch This Weekendโข, a weekly post in which I tell you what to watch this weekend! I will continue doing this post until you have watched everything you should watch. The POW Film Fest rolls through the weekend, with screenings at the Clinton Street Theater and the […]
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Good Morning, News: Trump Still Hates Puerto Rico, More Bad News for Boeing, and… Kenny the Gardener!
gk-6mt / Getty Images Stay up to date on Portland news and politics. Looking for fun? Here today’s best Things to Do in Portland. BOEING, BOEING, GONEโYesterday evening, a “Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft from the fleet that was grounded after two deadly crashes made an emergency landing in Florida,” reports CNN. According to Southwest […]
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RZA Is Coming to Portland to Perform a Live Score for The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
RZA / Hollywood Theatre Few kung fu movies are as rightfully revered as The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, the 1978 Shaw Brothers classic starring Gordon Liu. Even if you haven’t seen it, you’ve seen and heard the movie’s repercussions, in everything from the Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) to Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. […]