Magnolia Pictures The title of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters could have just as easily been Collectors: An impoverished, three-generational family lives on top of each other in a tiny house cluttered with piles of stolen and salvaged junk. Other people’s trash is their treasure, and that idea is taken to extremes when the family […]
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Portland Literary Magazine Tin House Is Publishing Its Final Issue in 2019
In June 2019, Portland-based literary magazine Tin House will publish its 20th anniversary issue. It will also be Tin House‘s final issue, as the publisher is ending the magazine’s print run and focusing on its book division and its widely respected annual writers workshop. Although the print publication is ending, Tin House says they will […]
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A New Book Claims to Have Pinpointed the Most Effective Cure for Hangovers
Penguin Random House Humankind has outlived the plague, devised countless written and spoken languages, and flown to the moon, but there’s one thing humans still haven’t figured out: a hangover cure that actually works. Writer Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall spent years researching (that’s a fancy way of saying “drinking”) for his new book, Hungover: The Morning After […]
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The Favourite Review: Costumes, Mud, and the Indisputable Greatness of Olivia Colman
The Favourite has a little something for everyone. Palace intrigue! Double crosses! Fancy clothes! Scathing social satire! History, sort of! Gunplay! Handjobs! Mud baths! Silly dancing! Animal cruelty! A bewigged but otherwise nude man being pelted with pomegranates in slow motion! Okay, maybe The Favourite isn’t for everyone—it’s a Yorgos Lanthimos film, after all. The […]
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How We Got Through the Last Two Years, and How We’ll Get Through the Next Two
How we got through the last two years, and how we’ll get through the next two.
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Japanese Bookstore Chain Kinokuniya Announces Downtown Store in Former Guild Theatre
Kinokuniya As first reported by the Willamette Week in June, a Japanese book and stationery story is moving into downtown’s Guild Theatre space on Director Park. Today, Kinokuniya Bookstores of America made the announcement official with a press release that includes some of the details of the new store, which will open in spring 2019. […]
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America Likes to Look at Its Dead Presidents
Dogs: making the grim specter of death bearable. Drew Angerer / Getty Images Former president George H.W. Bush’s body is currently lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC. It will stay there until his state funeral at the National Cathedral tomorrow, Wednesday, December 5—a day that the Post Office and the stock […]
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A List of Holiday Foods to Avoid
AMY FRAZER It’s the time of year when we gather ’round our families, think of the less fortunate, and throw caution to the increasingly cold wind by putting some very odd things into our bodies. Seriously, what is it about the holidays that makes us think that crap like fruitcake, candy canes, and eggnog are […]
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Doesn’t Behave Like a Typical Movie (Not Even a Typical Coen Brothers Movie)
Yee-haw! Any new film from Joel and Ethan Coen is cause for celebration. So what about six new films? The Ballad of Buster Scruggs isn’t that, exactly: The Coens’ first project for Netflix was initially rumored to be an episodic series—erroneously, it turns out—but appeared last week in your Netflix account as a single anthology […]
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Six Ways to Die in the West in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Coen Brothers’ western anthology film is both confounding and profound.
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Holiday Foods Are the Weirdest Foods. Holiday Foods Are the Worst Foods.
A list of holiday foods to avoid.
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There’s a New Robin Hood Movie and It Is Incredibly Stupid
The new Robin Hood, starring Taron Egerton, is very, very bad. It is meant to be an of-the-times modernized update of a familiar story—Egerton goes by “Rob”—but feels like a movie for teens made by someone who dislikes teens and thinks they are idiots. It is a dumb and incoherent movie that provokes unintended giggling. […]