Don’t let COVID scare away your Halloween fun! Join us for a TERRIFYINGLY good time at the SLAY Drive-In movie event on October 28 through October 31st! The Mercury is proudly partnering with our pals, the Rose City Rollers, to bring you our homegrown horror movie festival SLAY on the BIG SCREEN for four nights […]
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Film Review: Holding Out for Ryûhei Kitamura’s The Doorman
Ruby Rose in The Doorman Lionsgate I discovered Ryûhei Kitamura’s Versus flipping through DVDs in the back of Just Be Toys, an Old Town import boutique that used to be in the Compound PDX gallery space. It was 2003 and on the second level above the giant Gundams and $500 sneakers there was this aisle […]
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Win Free Passes to the SLAY Horror Film Fest—and a Free Pizza, Too!
As you know, the SLAY horror film fest asked artists, filmmakers, and generally bored people to make short, eight-minute-or-less scary flicks—and wow! Did they deliver! We received hundreds of submissions from all over the Northwest and the world, and have picked the best 30 of these entries for the debut of TWO volumes of the […]
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The Best Movies to Watch in Portland This Weekend: October 8-11, 2020
The Halloweentime classic Hocus Pocus will screen with its spooky mutual, Beetlejuice, all weekend long at the 99W Drive-In. Walt Disney Spooky season sinks its teeth into outdoor screens this weekend with a Hocus Pocus and Beetlejuice double-feature at 99W and the new sci-fi thriller Possessor at Cinema Unbound. Aside from that, you’ve got options […]
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Need a Good Scare? Get Your Tickets for SLAY—Our Horror Film Fest!
SLAY Film Festival Looking for some terrifying fun this Halloween season? Then check out SLAY—the horror film festival featuring short, deliciously TERRIFYING flicks from the makers of HUMP! and SPLIFF! We asked talented amateurs like you to submit short, eight-minute-or-less horror flicks that were creepy, funny, sexy, or flat-out terrifying—and wow! Did you deliver! In […]
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Get Your Tickets Now for SLAY—the Homemade HORROR Film Fest!
SLAY Film Festival Looking for some terrifying fun this Halloween season? Then check out SLAY—the horror film festival featuring short, deliciously TERRIFYING flicks from the makers of HUMP! and SPLIFF! We asked talented amateurs like you to submit short, eight-minute-or-less horror flicks that were creepy, funny, sexy, or flat-out terrifying—and wow! Did you deliver! In […]
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The Best Movies to Watch in Portland This Weekend: October 1-4, 2020
David Cross plays real-life butterfly expert and nature writer Robert Pyle on his journey through Washington’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest in The Dark Divide, screening online this weekend as part of the Portland International Film Festival. Film festival season gears up this weekend with the Northwest Film Center’s Portland International Film Festival, the one-day Portland […]
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The Best Movies to Stream in Portland This Weekend: September 24-27, 2020
Do what Brad and Janet didn’t do and stay in your car for double-feature screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Monty Python and the Holy Grail this Friday and Sunday at the 99 Drive-In. Fall has officially fallen, but there are still a couple of drive-in theaters catering to car-havers! We’ve rounded up […]
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What the World Needs Now Is a New Nancy Meyers Film
Pictured: The Father of the Bride cast, and one beautiful kitchen. screenshot Even if you’ve never heard director Nancy Meyers’ name, you are probably familiar with her oeuvre. She’s the genius auteur behind such white-women-with-mild-personal-dilemmas flicks like Baby Boom, Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated (it really wasn’t that complicated!), and The Intern. Meyers is responsible […]
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Your Guide to Fall 2020 Film Festivals in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond
Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) stars as a housewife on the run in Julia Hart’s I’m Your Woman, screening online via the Chicago International Film Festival and LA’s AFI Fest. Courtesy of Amazon Studios Movie theaters will sadly miss out on this year’s film festival season, but organizers in the Northwest and around the […]
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Don’t Miss SLAY—Our New Horror-Themed Short Film Fest!
SLAY Film Festival We’re living through horrifying times… correct? Then what better time for SLAY—the horror film festival featuring short, deliciously TERRIFYING flicks? SLAY comes to you from the makers of HUMP! and SPLIFF, who asked artists, filmmakers, and generally bored people to make short, eight-minute-or-less horror flicks—and wow! Did you deliver! We received hundreds […]
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The Best Movies to Stream in Portland This Weekend: September 17-20, 2020
You might not be able to breathe in fresh PNW air right now, but you can watch Alone, a woodsy survival story about a road trip to rural Oregon gone awry. Magnet Releasing Another weekend of smoggy isolation is met with some good news in the form of sexy short films (an encore of the […]