Die Hard 20th Century Fox / Walt Disney Studios It’s getting harder to see certain movies in Portland. Last March, Walt Disney Studios spent $71.3 billion to acquire 20th Century Fox, one of its few remaining competitors in the movie business. With one move, Disney—which already owns Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and ABC, has a controlling […]
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 34 Best Movies and Shows to Watch in Portland: Fri Aug 30-Thurs Sept 12
The 34 best movies and shows to watch in Portland: Fri Aug 30-Thurs Sept 12.
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Back to School: Check Out the Mercury’s September Shelf at Movie Madness!
Go back to school with the Mercury’s September video picks! (And Rodney Dangerfield.)
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Coming Down the Stream: A Fall TV Preview
Previews of Wu-Tang: An American Saga, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and Carnival Row.
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Mike Wallace Is Here: A Clear-Eyed Look at a No-Bullshit Reporter
Magnolia Pictures “A nation’s press is a good yardstick of a nation’s health,” a young Mike Wallace says in old black-and-white footage early in Mike Wallace Is Here. “Take a look at the history of any nation which has lost its freedoms, and you will find that the men who grabbed the power also had […]
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The 2020 Presidential Race Just Lost the Only Candidate Appropriately Concerned About Climate Change
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee KAREN DUCEY/GETTY Washington State Governor Jay Inslee was remarkably one-note in his recently euthanized campaign to be 2020’s Democratic nominee. Climate, climate, climate, he’d say. Climate, climate, climate! And—occasionally, if he really wanted to shake things up—he’d add: Climate! Climate! Climate! Inslee never managed to get much support in the […]
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Police to Shut Down Hawthorne Bridge Saturday in Anticipation of Planned Protests
stockstudioX / Getty In advance of planned protests in downtown Portland on Saturday, August 17—which will include both protestors from the national far-right organization the Proud Boys and progressive counter-protestors, including local anti-fascists known as “antifa”—the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) has announced they’ll be shutting down both the Hawthorne Bridge and a stretch of SW […]
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The 33 Best Movies and TV Shows to See in Portland: Aug 16-29
After the Wedding A gender-flipped American remake of Susanne Bier’s 2006 overwrought melodrama, trading up from Mads Mikkelsen and Rolf Lassgård to Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore. (Opens Fri Aug 23, Regal Fox Tower 10) Angel Has Fallen Olympus Has Fallen was a forgettable Gerard Butler action movie vehicle best known for being the worse […]
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Them That Follow Review: We Don’t Deserve Olivia Colman
1091 Media Olivia Colman isn’t in Them That Follow a whole lot, but whenever she’s onscreen—as Sister Slaughter, the dour, hardened matriarch of a small, isolated Appalachian community of snake-handling Pentecostals—she’s all but unrecognizable from all of her other remarkable turns in everything from The Favourite to Broadchurch to Peep Show to The Night Manager […]
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Because YOU Demanded It: THE Authoritative, Updated Ranking of ALL Fast & Furious Movies
This is the one where the Rock and Jason Statham fall in love. Frank Masi/Universal Thanks to the long-awaited release of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, I have been inundated with requests—nay, demands—that I update my authoritative, undisputed ranking of the major motion pictures in the ever-growing Fast & Furious saga. There have […]
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Good Morning, News: China Threatens Hong Kong, the Rock Pulls a Helicopter Out of the Sky, and Joe Biden Is “Fine”
Stay up to date on Portland news and politics. Looking for fun? Here are the best Things to Do in Portland today. MARK WILSON / GETTY IMAGES MALARKEY!—”Joe Biden Did Fine, and That Might Have Been Enough” reads a not particularly inspiring headline at the New York Times about last night’s Democratic debate. Sen. Kamala […]
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Check Out the Mercury’s Climate Change Video Picks at Movie Madness! (They’re More Fun Than They Sound, Promise)
Nobody likes thinking about climate change, but as 2019’s summer temps shatter records, it’s harder to pretend it isn’t happening—and harder to justify not doing anything about it. If David Wallace Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth and Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate don’t sound like relaxing beach reads, stay inside and watch […]