Mom, Dad, what did you do? WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND VILLAGE ROADSHOW FILMS NORTH AMERICA INC. I spent the first ten minutes of The Matrix Resurrections grinning like a delighted madman, a feeling that barely waned for the entirety of this fantastically worthy successor to the original trilogy. The answers to your most immediate […]
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Get Stoned and See a Movie This Holiday Season
CAMPY DRAPER I can’t remember the first time I went to the movies with family members on Christmas. But I can tell you that every time I do it, I become more convinced that it’s the move for the holidays. After opening presents Christmas morning, everyone puts on the cozy socks and itchy scarves they […]
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FREE TICKETS TUESDAY: Enter to Win Tix to See HAIM, Wand, and the All-New HUMP!
It’s time to get out in the world again and see some shows! And the Mercury is here to help with FREE TICKETS TUESDAY—our way of saying thanks to our great readers and spread the word about some fantastic upcoming performances! (Psst… if you want to say thanks to the Mercury, please consider making a […]
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What If a Hallmark Christmas Movie Was Set in Portland?
Ingram Publishing / getty images It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Not Christmas season per se, but rather, Hallmark Christmas movie season. You know what I’m talking about: Those slap-dash, exposition-heavy, the-cornier-the-better, vaguely-Christian-supremacist, made-for-TV romantic comedies, all set in a world where everyone is fucking nuts about Christmas. In this world, the hottest […]
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TONIGHT! It’s Your Last Chance to Stream Our Mini-Documentary Fest, SCOOP!
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME TEENSY-TINY TRUTH BOMBS? SCOOP is a new mini-doc fest brought to you by brilliant minds behind HUMP!, SLAY, and SPLIFF Film Festivals. Earlier this year, we asked readers to go out into our chaotic world and SEND US THEIR BEST SCOOPS on the issues they care about the most. After […]
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Last Chance! Stream Our Mini-Documentary Fest, SCOOP, This Weekend!
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME TEENSY-TINY TRUTH BOMBS? SCOOP is a new mini-doc fest brought to you by brilliant minds behind HUMP!, SLAY, and SPLIFF Film Festivals. Earlier this year, we asked readers to go out into our chaotic world and SEND US THEIR BEST SCOOPS on the issues they care about the most. After […]
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The 5 Steps to Watching Televised Thanksgiving Day Parades. (Step 1: Get High)
Crazy shit popping off all over the place. JStone / Shutterstock.com [What follows is some extremely helpful advice from our sister publication, The Stranger, written in 2015… you know, before the world went to shit. The 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade runs from 9 am-noon on NBC.—eds] Step 1: Smoke weed, drink tincture, or have […]
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It Doesn’t Matter if House of Gucci Is Good or Bad—We’re Here for Gaga
Mother Monster ate. Fabio Lovino/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci is ridiculous, but it’s one helluva good time. For nearly three hours, Scott subjects viewers to a probably offensive array of “Italian” accents (e.g. “Never confuse shit with choco-lato”), sex in sweaty offices, Jared Leto chewing the absolute fuck out of the scenery while doing […]
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This Weekend, Stream Our Mini-Documentary Fest, SCOOP!
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME TEENSY-TINY TRUTH BOMBS? SCOOP is a new mini-doc fest brought to you by brilliant minds behind HUMP!, SLAY, and SPLIFF Film Festivals. Earlier this year, we asked readers to go out into our chaotic world and SEND US THEIR BEST SCOOPS on the issues they care about the most. After […]
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Now Playing: SCOOP—Our Short Documentary Film Fest!
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME TEENSY-TINY TRUTH BOMBS? SCOOP is a new mini-doc fest brought to you by brilliant minds behind HUMP!, SLAY, and SPLIFF Film Festivals. Earlier this year, we asked readers to go out into our chaotic world and SEND US THEIR BEST SCOOPS on the issues they care about the most. After […]
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Thank You for Supporting the Arts: An Intimate Documentary about the Many Lives of Portland’s Most Beloved Stripper, Viva Las Vegas
Liv Osthus, AKA Viva Las Vegas Thank You for Supporting the Arts / Cinema Libre Studio One of the intentions of art is to defy expectations. And yet there are far too many who are quick to place definitive parameters on what it is and isn’t. Liv Osthus, better known around Portland as the beloved, […]
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You SLAYed! You Voted! Here Are the Winners!
Damn, it feels like this year’s spooky October season came and went in a flash! And it’s hard to believe that SLAY, our scary, short film fest, had its in-person theater debut just last weekend! The pandemic forced us to get creative with a drive-in version last year, but it felt sooo good to be […]