Movies & TV

Canadian writer-director Sophy Romvari’s debut feature, the luminous Blue Heron, is revelatory—even as it intentionally offers no revelations. If you saw Romvari’s 2020 short film Still Processing (all her shorts are on the Criterion Channel), you’ve observed the director’s careful application of context, bringing the audience to understand the extent of her family’s grief without […]

“There are not many filmmakers for whom you could create a six-day, round-the-clock marathon,” said Brendan Nagle, who’s one-half of the avant-garde screening duo Spectrum Between. “The sheer volume of Frederick Wiseman’s body of work really sets him apart.” An upcoming marathon from April 29 to May 4 at Belmont’s Sunnyside Community Center will screen […]

The late ’90s and early 2000s were a hard time to be a Trail Blazers fan. While the team was borderline incredible and might even have won a championship—had it not been for those pesky LA Lakers—it was also an era when the team and Portland didn’t seem to like each other very much. At […]

Steven Soderbergh has directed 11 features since 2017—which was the year blue collar caper Logan Lucky sprung the director from a self-imposed retirement.  This bountiful run includes shot-in-secret-on-an-iPhone thriller Unsane (2018), thoughtful exotic dancer threequel Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023), bone-shaking ghost story Presence (2024), bone-dry spy story Black Bag (2025), and now The Christophers, […]

At the beginning of A Useful Ghost, the debut film from Thai screenwriter-turned-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, a man has a problem. And that problem is dust. He buys a vacuum cleaner, but the appliance has some issues. At night, the man wakes up to the sound of it coughing dust back up all over the apartment […]

To Barbara Hammer superfans, Barbara Forever may seem lacking. Where are the jump cuts, the weird overlays, the extended shots of a woman masturbating, superimposed over rock formations?  Brydie O’Connor’s documentary about the experimental filmmaker’s life is more aimed at someone with an extremely finite attention span for experimental film, even the queer kind. Composed […]

Portland Panorama’s schedule of movies, showcases, and virtual reality immersions feels like falling down a wiki rabbit hole. You came to see who’s playing live at the screening of music videos from the Pacific Northwest at Mississippi Studios, and now you’re getting excited about a bunch of shorts by Black animators at Cinema 21.  There’s […]

In 2023’s The Super Mario Bros Movie, audiences followed two Brooklyn plumber-brothers through a big green pipe to another dimension where anthropomorphic toadstool citizenry lived under the benevolent rule of a once-orphaned woman named Peach (voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy). Now in 2026, with the general conceit of the Mushroom Kingdom established, the sequel, The Super […]