FUN FACT! They’re related. Via Metro: Game of Thrones is currently the most popular show on television. But while fans are eagerly anticipating the finale of its seventh season, and each episode is watched by over 30 million people, George R.R. Martin isn’t among them. That’s because, despite creating the books upon which they’re based, […]
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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This Week’s Letters to the Editor Are… Really Something
ORLANDO FERGUSON, 1893 RE: “Flat Earth, Eclipsed,” part of our Eclipse Issue [Aug 16], about flat-Earthers’ attempts to explain the eclipse. “In roughly 300 BCE, Greek philosopher Aristotle changed everything by mansplaining that, actually, our planet is a rotating sphere. The flat-Earth theory was debunked,” Kathleen Marie wrote. “Except… in 2017, in the case of […]
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Win Tickets to See This Is Spinal Tap at Top Down: Rooftop Cinema!
Every summer, the NW Film Center’s Top Down: Rooftop Cinema screenings are some of the most fun events in town, with films screening outdoors, on the roof of downtown’s Hotel deLuxe parking garage. This year’s lineup is probably my favorite out of all the years of Top Down: After kicking things off with The Awful […]
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Game of Thrones: Why That Bullshit Fan Theory About Tyrion Is, in Fact, Bullshit
Macall B. Polay/courtesy of HBO As we head into the penultimate episode of this season of Game of Thrones, fan theories are kicking into overdrive—which means those watching HBO’s show are catching a glimpse of the intense, weird fan theories that George R.R. Martin’s readers have been arguing about since 1996. Let me be clear: […]
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Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky: Fast and Sort of Furious
“I just don’t think movies matter as much anymore, culturally,” infamously unpredictable filmmaker Steven Soderbergh told the Guardian in 2013—one of the many legit reasons he gave when he announced he was quitting movies forever. So naturally, four years later, the infamously unpredictable Soderbergh has a new comedy—Logan Lucky, a movie that aims to undermine […]
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Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky Is a Goddamn Delight
Fast and Sort of Furious
Fast and sort of furious.
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Win Tickets to See Army of Darkness at Top Down: Rooftop Cinema!
Every summer, the NW Film Center’s Top Down: Rooftop Cinema screenings are some of the most fun events in town, with films screening outdoors, on the roof of downtown’s Hotel deLuxe parking garage. This year’s lineup is probably my favorite out of all the years of Top Down: After kicking things off with The Awful […]
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Annabelle: Creation Review: Welcome to the Doll House.
The setting: A midcentury Andrew Wyeth landscape with an Edward Hopper house. A busload of orphans and a kindly nun move into a mansion run by the saturnine Mr. Mullins and his recluse wife. We know why the Mullinses are so gloomy: Years earlier, their daughter Annabelle was killed in a car crash, and her […]
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Win Tickets to See Shaft at Top Down: Rooftop Cinema!
Every summer, the NW Film Center’s Top Down: Rooftop Cinema screenings are some of the most fun events in town, with films screening outdoors, on the roof of downtown’s Hotel deLuxe parking garage. This year’s lineup is probably my favorite out of all the years of Top Down: After kicking things off last week with […]
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Game of Thrones Recap! Fighting Over “The Spoils of War”
Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO So far, this is Game of Thrones’ best season—and last night’s episode, “The Spoils of War,” was fantastic. Let’s get into it. Spoilers, obviously. WE BEGIN IN HIGHGARDEN…… where Jaime and Bronn are packing up the Tyrells’ gold. Bronn’s all sassy because he doesn’t have a castle yet—which seems weird, since […]
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Good Morning, News: Rally Fights, “Shadow Campaigns,” and Horrible, Horrible Heat
Courtesy of Warner Bros. PUNCHES AT THE “PATRIOT PRAYER”—”Right-wing marchers and left-wing protesters had a dumb clash on the waterfront Sunday afternoon, with pepper spray and punches flying,” reports the Mercury‘s Doug Brown. “A handful of people got bloodied up. Nearly everybody got called a Nazi.” SHADOW CAMPAIGNS—Vice President Mike Pence says a New York […]
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Better Stephen King Movies to Stream Instead of Going to See The Dark Tower
MISERY Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh After years of false starts and empty promises, Stephen King fans finally have a movie version of The Dark Tower! Just one problem: It is not good. If you’re feeling the keen sting of yet another crummy King adaptation, know this: Not only am I right there with you (hi!), but I’m here […]