Our Bodies, Our Doctors The NW Film Center’s Portland International Film Festival (PIFF), which kicked off last week, rolls along through this week and into next. Here’s a quick peek at some of the films screening over the next few days (the best ones are starred), and we’ll have more of these brief reviews as […]
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If You Like Westerns and Ethan Hawke, You’ll Like The Kid
Lionsgate Remember that crummy remake of The Magnificent Seven from a couple of years ago? Three of its titular septet—Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, and Vincent D’Onofrio—have reteamed for another western, perhaps to make up for the shortcomings of their previous attempt. While The Kid isn’t exactly good enough to right past wrongs, it’s a mildly […]
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PIFF Takes! Quick Film Reviews for Thursday, March 7 to Sunday, March 10
Amateurs The NW Film Center’s Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) kicks off today and continues through March 21, and over the next two weeks it’ll show more than 140 feature-length and short films from around the world. Don’t know where to dive in? You can check out our overview of the festival here, and what […]
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Our Picks for the 2019 Portland International Film Festival
Valley of Shadows Don’t expect much in the way of glitzy premieres or red-carpet photo ops, but the Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) is probably the closest thing to a high holiday on the local film calendar. A bursting-at-the-seams, two-week catchall of globally produced films screening at five local theaters, this year’s PIFF has more […]
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A New Box Set Proves Everything the Zombies Recorded Is Worth Listening To
Making sense of the Zombies’ 1960s catalog can be difficult business. The English group launched their career at the height of the British Invasion, scored two big hits, “She’s Not There” and “Tell Her No,” then spent the rest of the decade struggling to match those early successes. Even their classic psychedelic-pop album, Odessey and […]
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This March, Check Out the Mercury‘s Picks at Movie Madness!
Green Room Had he not tragically died in a 2016 freak accident, Anton Yelchin would’ve turned 30 on March 11. The son of Russian figure skaters who defected to the US, Yelchin was one of the most versatile and prolific actors of his generation—and we only got a hint of what he could’ve been capable […]
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Sandwich Shop Shut Up and Eat Has Shut for Good
Shut Up and Eat, the sandwich shop at the corner of Southeast Gladstone and César E. Chávez (39th) announced that it has closed up shop in a Facebook message today. “Regretfully, after nearly ten wonderful years, Shut Up and Eat has served its last sandwich,” the message reads. “As of 6pm on Sunday, March 3rd […]
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Luke Perry Is Dead at Age 52
Luke Perry in 1994. Fox Television/Courtesy of Getty Images Luke Perry died this morning, reports TMZ and Entertainment Weekly. The actor suffered a massive stroke on Wednesday, February 27, and never recovered. He was 52. Perry is best known for his role as the sideburn-sporting Dylan McKay in the ’90s teen soap Beverly Hills, 90210. […]
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Yes, Michael Jackson Was a Monster. Does That Mean You Have to Watch All Four Hours of Leaving Neverland?
HBO The two-part documentary Leaving Neverland airs on HBO this Sunday and Monday, March 3 and 4, examining the stories of two men who claim they were abused by pop star Michael Jackson when they were children. This does not sound like a fun watch. Its four-hour length would make it grueling enough, and its […]
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Here’s Your Shopping List for 2019’s Record Store Day
Jackpot Records Ah, Record Store Day—that ever-controversial “holiday” that not only helps keep independent record stores afloat but also sustains cooler-than-thou record-store types by providing them with their favorite pastime: complaining loudly about capitalism and people with inferior taste. RSD is coming, again, this time on Saturday, April 13, and today all the record labels […]
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Remembering Anton Yelchin: Check Out the Mercury’s March Video Picks at Movie Madness!
Remembering the talented actor on what would have been his 30th birthday.
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The Portland International Film Festival Is Back for 2019. Here Are Our Picks.
Your guide to a bursting-at-the-seams, two-week catchall of globally produced films.