Dom Sinacola

Dom Sinacola

Dom Sinacola is a Portland-based writer and editor. He runs a blog about Werner Herzog movies, The Werner Herzblog, and he’s also on Letterboxd.

Recent Articles

Spring 2026 Movies To Put on Your Calendar

A season of films that rush in like Ryan Gosling sci-fi and out like Sheep Detectives.

Pixar Underdog Hoppers Is Undeniably Delightful 

It's also the funniest Pixar movie in forever.

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Mercury Review 

The latest entry in Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol’s high-spirited satire of their own lives is a funny big budget time travel misadventure.

Movies & TV Jan 29 4:30 PM

Gimme Shelter: Jason Statham’s Latest Thriller Warms Up a Typically Cold January

Director Ric Roman Waugh thinks this is the perfect time of year to have grizzled action stars confront their mortality.

Movies & TV Jan 15 5:50 PM

Gus Van Sant's New Film Returns to His True Crime Roots

In Dead Man's Wire nothing goes according to plan, including Van Sant's return to his true crime roots.

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Movies & TV Dec 31 5:00 PM

Bi Gan’s Resurrection Revives 100 Years of Movie-Making for One Long Dream

Dream logic takes over in the Chinese writer-director’s latest technical marvel.

Movies & TV Dec 22 3:00 PM

The Mercury’s 10 Favorite Movies of 2025

The best movies of 2025 are at war with the machine, data centers, and helplessness. What a relief.

Movies & TV Nov 24 2:00 PM

Portland and Guillermo del Toro Are Symbiotically Bound

At a Tomorrow Theater screening, the director discussed the rise of AI, the future of stop-motion animation, and who he identifies with in Frankenstein.

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Movies & TV Nov 14 5:15 AM

Edgar Wright’s The Running Man Doesn’t Really Go Anywhere

The idea of a righteously angry movie about the shitty state of 2025 had a lot of potential; it was squandered by a too-handsome Glen Powell.

Movies & TV Nov 4 3:00 PM

Train Dreams Go on When I Close My Eyes

Director Clint Bentley's ode to a small, quiet life in the Pacific Northwest is also one of the year’s most plainly beautiful films.

Movies & TV Oct 29 5:15 PM

Bugonia Is a Good Time Yorgos Lanthimos Film

The famous Greek director of strange and unsettling movies has made another strange and unsettling movie.

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Movies & TV Oct 15 1:00 PM

The Strange Sublime Cinema of Motern Media and Evil Puddle

Matt Farley and Charlie Roxburgh make micro-budget films followed by and starring their fans.

Movies & TV Sep 25 1:00 PM

One Battle After Another Captures the Relentless Overstimulation of Being Alive in 2025

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film is a funny, breathless, sometimes overwhelming spectacle of American violence.

Movies & TV Sep 19 7:00 AM

Eleven Films to Argue About in Fall 2025 

The season is stacked with the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Lynne Ramsey, Chloé Zhao, Kathryn Bigelow, Yorgos Lanthimos, a Safdie, a Tron movie, and more!

Movies & TV Sep 17 4:00 PM

Megadoc Is an Essential Portrait of Grand Delusion

We thought we were done talking about Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, but this new, making-of documentary is fascinating.

Fall Arts 2025 Sep 11 3:27 AM

Eleven Films to Argue About in Fall 2025

The season is stacked with films from the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Lynne Ramsey, Chloé Zhao, Kathryn Bigelow, Yorgos Lanthimos, a Safdie, a Tron movie, and more!

Movies & TV Aug 14 1:05 PM

Nobody 2: Twice the Carnage, but Not Enough

Bob Odenkirk's dad justice series kicks up the brutality with the help of Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto.

Movies & TV Aug 11 5:00 PM

My Eternity Evening With Francis Ford Coppola

Inside the iconic director's Portland stop on his Megalopolis Tour—but first, a few tangents!