We are aware we could have said furever.
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Pixar Underdog Hoppers Is Undeniably Delightful
It’s also the funniest Pixar movie in forever.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s New Frankenstein-Inspired Film Doesn’t Always Make Sense, but It’s a Helluva Movie!
Say yes to the mess: The Bride! is gory and glorious.
Sometimes there’s a rave under the overpass and Fever Ray is playing.
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Second Run Portland: Films for Literary Types
This month, a bevy of options beyond Wuthering Heights.
Film adaptations of novels tend to get a bad rap, and with Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights landing last month, suddenly everyone holds a strong stance for or against them. Take a breath, dear reader. Perhaps within the tranquil confines of your local cinema…? Because this month, indie screens zero in on film-literature crossovers that hit, actually. […]
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Bruce Campbell on Death, Dying, and the Evil Dead
The legend talks about DIYing his new movie Ernie & Emma.
I can’t be the guy lugging around a chainsaw anymore.
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Emerald Fennell Has Made the Least Fucked-up Version of Wuthering Heights
This film seems destined for a long and vibrant afterlife of teenage slumber parties.
No amount of blood and puke can cover this romance.
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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.
For nearly 20 years, Torontonian best friends Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol have chronicled the everyday existences of Torontonian best friends Matt (Johnson) and Jay (McCarrol) as they attempt to book a show for their band, Nirvanna the Band, at local venue the Rivoli. Granted, they’ve never acknowledged that their band name might be a […]
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Second Run Portland: In Picnic at Hanging Rock, Valentine’s Day Turns Mysterious
This month, nine films on love, desire, and human psychology.
I’m certain I don’t need to tell you this, but: Shit sucks. Are you taking care of yourself right now? One reliable method is through the poetry and dissociative capacity of good cinema. This month, options abound with screenings of Picnic at Hanging Rock (romance is cryptic), You’ve Got Mail (romance is online), and In the […]
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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.
Is that you Jason? I mean, Mason?
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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.
Al Pacino does not appear to ever stand up in this film.
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Swimming Through Trauma in The Chronology of Water
Kristen Stewart’s first feature film interprets Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir through fragmentation and aquatic metaphor.
“I remember things in retinal flashes. Without order. Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order… It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common,” the Oregon-based author Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her 2011 memoir, The Chronology of Water. It follows, then, that director Kristin Stewart’s […]
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Second Run Portland: Rich People Behaving Badly
Peter Greenaway’s gourmet art film and Frederick Wiseman’s snowy documentary show vastly different approaches to class critique.
Some claim that January is a cultural dead zone for events, and on days when the sun seems to clock out at noon, it’s hard to argue. But while much of the city hibernates, one institution keeps the lights on. Thanks, independent movie theaters!! This month’s screenings come through with interesting takes on class critique […]
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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.
Chinese writer-director Bi Gan believes that filmmaking can capture his wildest dreams. Resurrection is his attempt to convince you that it can capture yours too. It’s ambitious to make a movie about how making movies is like harvesting dreams, projecting viewers’ inner lives back at them, often to visceral, abstract, and sometimes tummy-hurting ends. This is […]