Portland EcoFilm Festival It’s starting to feel like people might be paying attention. Maybe that’s wishful thinking. While the possibility of climate change was raised as early as 1896, scientists’ concerns didn’t start burgeoning until the late 1960s. That’s when the warnings began, each year growing increasingly dire; that’s when the evidence started mounting, becoming […]
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 Best Movies & TV Shows to Watch in Portland: Fri Sept 27-Thurs Oct 10
“Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!”
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Happy Herzog-tober! Check out the Mercury’s October Picks at Movie Madness!
What? “Herzog-tober” is totally a thing.
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The Portland EcoFilm Fest Offers a Wide-Ranging, Affecting Look at Climate
Featuring whales, trees, and dead people!
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The Best, Weirdest, and Scariest Books About Climate Change
“It is worse, much worse, than you think.” So begins journalist David Wallace-Wells’ 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 they’re going to get, […]
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This Year’s Lineup for OMSI’s Sci-Fi Film Fest Is GREAT
Warner Bros. Every year, OMSI turns over its the Empirical Theater—and it’s ginormous screen—to their Sci-Fi Film Fest, showcasing a slew of sci-fi movies. This year, the offerings are particularly excellent. Things kick off tonight with the throughly shrug-worthy Godzilla: King of the Monsters, but starting tomorrow, you’ve got John Carpenter’s all-time classic The Thing, […]
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Zeroville Review: James Franco’s Trip Through Hollywood Doesn’t Add Up to Much
myCinema Beloved by cinephiles and bibliophiles alike, Steve Erickson’s 2007 novel Zeroville tracks Vikar, a glowering, borderline autistic former seminarian who’s so obsessed with movies that he’s slathered his shaved head with a tattoo of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. (“Who’s Montgomery Clift?” people keep asking.) Arriving in LA in 1969, Vikar finds himself at […]
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Ad Astra Review: In Space, No One Can Hear You Complain About Your Daddy Issues
Twentieth Century Fox In Ad Astra‘s near future, going to the Moon is so pedestrian—you can fly there commercial—that once you arrive at the spaceport, you’re greeted by a Hudson News and an Applebee’s. It’s when you venture further out—into the sprawling no-man’s land of disputed lunar territory—that the moon buggies full of space pirates […]
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Portland’s Best Bagels
We ate a lot of bagels so that you… can also eat a lot of bagels.
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The 39 Best Movies & TV Shows to Watch in Portland: Fri Sept 13-Thurs Sept 26
Wait. That headline says “the best.” What’s Star Trek III doing on here?
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So What’cha Watching? Our Current TV and Streaming Obsessions
This Way Up, Hyperdrive, Gallery Girls, and More
This Way Up Channel 4 To steal a line from the current-best show on TV, HBO’s Succession: Here at the Mercury, we work hard, but we play soft. (Why would you play hard?) And all that soft play comes in the form of winding down in front of the tube. So what are we watching […]
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The Hollywood Theatre Is Getting Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood on 70mm
Andrew Cooper Starting Fri Sept 13, the Hollywood Theatre’s getting one of the few 70mm prints of Quentin Tarantino’s latest, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. When the film opened last month, the Hollywood—along with CineMagic—had it on 35mm, and it looked great. (The CineMagic still has it on 35mm, if you want to see […]