The Art of Self-Defense The cultural discourse has, of late, become filled with stories of aimless, lonely young men who, feeling they’re being ignored and left behind, find direction and a kind of community through toxic and bizarre means. For Casey (Jesse Eisenberg), the weedy accountant shuffling through his beige existence in writer/director Riley Stearns’ […]
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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Democratic Debate Recap: Despite Solid Performances, Warren and Sanders Can’t Compete with Hobbs and Shaw
Photo credits, clockwise from left: Bill Pugliano/Getty; Frank Masi/Universal; Frank Masi/Universal; Scott Eisen/Getty On Tuesday July 30 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, 10 candidates—most notably, frenemies Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders—faced off to determine the Democratic nominee in the 2020 presidential election. That same evening, at Regal Lloyd Cinemas & IMAX […]
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Regal Cinemas Announces Movie Subscription Service
MediaProduction / Getty Regal Cinemas has announced “Regal Unlimited,” a movie subscription service that, for between $18 and $24 a month, will allow moviegoers to see “as many movies as you want, as many times as you want, whenever you want, wherever you want,” along with offering a few additional perks. The move follows the […]
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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Review: This Might Be Quentin Tarantino’s Best Movie Since Jackie Brown
ANDREW COOPER Actually, now that I think about it, maybe it’s even better than Jackie Brown? I know. Crazy! Jackie Brown is 22 years old; Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction came out… however many years before that. And now Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is here, and it’s right up there with Quentin Tarantino’s […]
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Where Portlanders Can See Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood on 35mm (Updated)
Columbia Pictures Update, Mon July 22, 10:13 am:Looks like the Cinemagic on SE Hawthorne will also be playing Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood on 35mm. Tickets for those shows are available here; we’ll update this post if we hear about any other Portland theaters showing the film in 35. Orignal post, Wed July 10, […]
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Celebrate the Anniversary of the Moon Landing with the Mercury’s Picks at Movie Madness
BACKGROUND ART BY NASA/AMES RESEARCH CENTER/LUNAR ORBITER IMAGE RECOVERY PROJECT Fifty years ago this month, on July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon. The moment remains one of humankind’s greatest accomplishments—and its anniversary is an excellent excuse to visit the Space Age via film, experiencing both vicarious thrills and a time when Americans […]
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The 17 Best Movies & TV Shows to Watch in Portland: July 19-Aug 1
The Art of Self-Defense The current cultural discourse has, of late, become filled with stories of aimless, lonely young men who, feeling they’re being ignored and left behind, find direction and a kind of community through toxic and bizarre means. It’s part of what has fed the growth of hypermasculine extremist groups like the Proud […]
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God Bless David Harbour, and God Bless David Harbour’s Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein
Allyson Riggs / Netflix David Harbour had a long run as a character actor before he showed up in Stranger Things, at which point he immediately became the best thing about Stranger Things*, and then everyone fell in love with him on Twitter (twice), and now, he is the best. In general. He was even […]
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All Fascists in Chuck Wendig’s Apocalyptic Wanderers Are Coincidental
DEL REY / AUTHOR PHOTO BY EDWIN TSE “Wanderers is a work of fiction,” reads the edition notice at the start of Chuck Wendig’s new novel. “Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely […]
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What to Watch This Weekend: The Very Finest in Cinema from Hitchcock, DePalma, and Beavis and Butt-Head
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Paramount Crawl—This wasn’t screened for critics, but it is a movie about killer alligators eating people in a flooded Florida town, and therefore has the Mercury‘s highest endorsement. Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché—Suzette wasn’t too keen on this documentary about the first woman filmmaker: “I doubt that […]
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Rep. Earl Blumenauer on Climate Change: “Congress Needs to Understand This Is an Emergency and Act Like It”
Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer Chip Somodevilla / Getty On Tuesday, Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer, along with New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, discussed plans to introduce a resolution to Congress that would declare a climate emergency in the United States—urging lawmakers to, as Blumenaer tweeted, address “the truth about the climate […]
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The 28 Best Movies & TV Shows to Watch: July 4-18
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