Movies & TV

There is something that needs to be said up front about I Am DB Cooper, a bizarre documentary by T. J. Regan (Gap Year), that loosely retells the true story of a mysterious hijacker who jumped from a plane with his ransom in 1971 and was never heard from again. If you’ve ever read, seen, […]

Portland holds a lot of love for John Waters. The cult classic film director tours through nearly every winter holiday season, like a scandalous Santa—sans presents, plus vices. However, this year’s John Waters Christmas show on December 1 is already sold out, potentially disappointing those who missed him due to widespread cancelations in 2020, or […]

So you’re going to make a film adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio and release it in 2022. How do you approach the material? If you’re Robert Zemeckis, you take the basic skeleton of the pre-existing 1940 Disney animated film and create yet another unnecessary live action remake. If you’re […]

Mother of Color, the first feature from queer, Mexican American filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone, tells a very personal and very Portland story. Jones Redstone calls it the “origin story” of its central character Noelia (Ana del Rocío), a single mother who reconnects to her past via connections with her ancestors. And those communications prepare her […]

Portland-raised director Todd Field was best known, before now, for his acclaimed “In the Bedroom,” but with Cate Blanchett as the central character in his new work “TÁR,” Field has made his most formally disciplined yet ultimately enigmatic work.

Portland is a perfect place to bring stop motion characters to life, according to animator and director Henry Selick. “You know, those long, gray, wet winters are perfect for staying inside,” he told the Mercury. Though he directed several outstanding stop motion films at Walt Disney Studios—like the 1993 Nightmare Before Christmas and 1996 James […]