ANDREAS TERLAAK RE: “Things To Do” [July 26], in which Senior Editor Ned Lannamann encouraged Mercury readers to see Neil Diamond at the Moda Center. “No one’s taken more knocks than the perennially uncool Neil Diamond,” Lannamann wrote, “and yet here he stands, more than 50 years after his first hit, ‘Solitary Man,’ still packing […]
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 Hollywood’s Next “Celluloid Spotlight” Series Features the Work of Stanley Kubrick
Earlier this summer, the Hollywood Theatre presented Spielberg on Film—an excellent lineup of some of Steven Spielberg’s best movies, all presented on 35 or 16mm. The next director who’ll be part of the theater’s “Celluloid Spotlight” series? None other than Stanley Kubrick. The Hollywood’s just-announced Kubrick on Film series will feature 2001: A Space Odyssey […]
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The Best Movies in Portland Theaters! (Or, The Best Excuses to Sit in a Dark Room With Air Conditioning)
It’s going to be 105° today. I’m going to Valerian and probably never leaving the theater. I don’t know what you’re seeing, but if you go to Valerian, don’t sit next to me. Your body heat disgusts me. Baby DriverEdgar Wright’s latest is wall-to-wall music, and it might take you a track or two to […]
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The Trailer for David Fincher’s Netflix Series, Mindhunter, Is Great and Creepy
Courtesy Netflix Zodiac is on currently streaming on Netflix, and if you haven’t seen it in a while—or if you’re one of the many who missed it when it first came out—it’s well worth a watch. One of the most underrated movies of the 2000s (so far), David Fincher’s true-crime thriller boasts fantastic turns from […]
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Well, At Least Blade Runner 2049 Is Going to Sound Great
It’s a given that the Blade Runner sequel nobody asked for is going to look great—it’s shot by Roger Deakins, probably the best cinematographer working today, and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who has a stunning ability to tell visual stories. But today comes news that Blade Runner 2049 is also going to sound great, with […]
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Win Tickets to The Awful Truth at Top Down: Rooftop Cinema!
UPDATE, TUESDAY AUGUST 1: Due to the high temperatures being predicted for Thursday, August 3, the NW Film Center has decided to move this screening indoors, to the NW Film Center’s Whitwell Auditorium. Every summer, the NW Film Center’s Top Down: Rooftop Cinema screenings are some of the most fun events in town, with films […]
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Good Morning, News: Trump’s Mental Health, TriMet Bans, and The Great British Bake Off!
Getty Images / puchan GAH! IS A GIANT ASTEROID GOING TO HIT EARTH TODAY?? Nope! But now that I’ve mentioned the possibility of planetary annihilation, this morning’s actual news, which would otherwise send you into a horrible depression spiral, won’t seem so bad! CRUISIN’ FOR A COLLUSION—”I did not collude,” Jared Kushner mewled to Senate […]
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From Stranger Things 2 to Ready Player One, Here Are All the Comic-Con Trailers You Missed
Courtesy Netflix A few years ago, San Diego’s Comic-Con International was a comic book convention. How quaint! These days, it rivals the Super Bowl as an annual consumerism orgy where giant soulless multimedia corporations relentlessly sell movies, TV shows, and video games—and this past weekend was no exception. A few mew major trailers dropped at […]
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Remembering George Romero with Night of the Living Dead
Legendary horror director George Romero died over the weekend, leaving behind a remarkable body of work—one that kickstarted this entire zombie thing, for starters, but one that also paved the way for countless independent filmmakers. Today, the internet is full of remembrances, but I’m inclined to point you toward this piece by Sean of the […]
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The Mercury‘s Sister Paper, Seattle’s The Stranger, to Publish Biweekly
Readers of the Portland Mercury‘s sister paper in Seattle, The Stranger, got some big news this afternoon: Starting this fall, The Stranger, which for the past 25 years has been published every week, will be published every other week. This new, biweekly Stranger will be bigger, with a higher page count, and fancier, with heavier […]
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It’s a Good Day to Watch Comcast Lie About Net Neutrality
Huh. You don’t say. Twitter Today finds many of the internet’s biggest companies and sites advocating for net neutrality—Google, Amazon, Reddit, Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Twitch, OkCupid, Kickstarter, and more are all speaking out against the FCC’s plans to break the internet. (Yo Apple, where you at?) Make no mistake: It can sound wonky and techy […]
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Chasing Ice Director Jeff Orlowski Heads Underwater with Netflix’s Chasing Coral
“Back in the ’80s, we started looking at this weird phenomenon: Large sections of coral reefs were turning white, literally over a couple of weeks. And no one really knew why this was,” says University of Queensland Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg in Chasing Coral. “As we did more and more experiments, it turned out that it […]