Zac Pennington, Author at Portland Mercury

Movies & TV

I’ll Be Your Mirror

Getting Under Scarlett Johansson’s Skin

Zac PenningtonApril 9, 2014 1:00 pmJuly 12, 2022 7:55 pm

Under the Skin: Jonathan Glazer gets under Scarlett Johansson’s skin.

Movies & TV

Tantric Depression

Nymphomaniac: Lars von Trier’s Long, Hard Shock

Zac PenningtonMarch 26, 2014 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 7:55 pm

Nymphomaniac: Lars von Trier’s long, hard shock.

Movies & TV

Nothing Matters

Democracy, Nihilism and 300: Rise of an Empire

Zac PenningtonMarch 5, 2014 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 7:54 pm

It’s all democracy and nihilism in 300: Rise of an Empire.

Movies & TV

Valentine’s Day Massacre

Undoing Endless Love

Zac PenningtonFebruary 12, 2014 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 7:54 pm

Undoing Endless Love.

Movie Masochist

Movie Masochist: Delivery Man

Zac PenningtonNovember 22, 2013 11:59 amJuly 12, 2022 7:53 pm

DELIVERY MAN “Hey, you got a cup I can use?” Sometimes a movie is just a movie. As a film critic, it’s easy to forget this—to read between the frames of even the most asinine and formulaic celluloid for something, anything remotely interesting enough to hang 300 words off of. But sometimes a movie is […]

Movies & TV

Children of a Lesser Vaughn

Delivery Man‘s Schlocky Identity Crisis

Zac PenningtonNovember 20, 2013 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 7:53 pm

Delivery Man‘s schlocky identity crisis.

Movie Masochist

Movie Masochist: Free Birds

Zac PenningtonNovember 1, 2013 10:14 amJuly 12, 2022 7:53 pm

I watch a lot of terrible movies at the behest of this newspaper. Shuddersome movies. Movies that no rational person—let alone a self-respecting film editor—would ever presume the circulation of this paper to have any interest in. Underdog. Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakuel. Last Vegas. In the newspaper biz, we refer to these […]