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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Read the Story That Inspired Thin Skin—Screening Saturday at TBA:20
<img src="https://media2.fdncms.com/portmerc/imager/u/original/28818137/1599845758-1599773083-screen_shot_2020-09-10_at_2.22.58_pm.png" alt="Ahamefule J. Oluo stars in Thin Skin, directed and co-written by Charles Mudede.” title=”Ahamefule J. Oluo stars in Thin Skin, directed and co-written by Charles Mudede.”> Ahamefule J. Oluo stars in Thin Skin, directed and co-written by Charles Mudede. Thin Skin Back in 2011, Seattle jazz musician and comedian Ahamefule J. Oluo wrote […]
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TBA:20 Begins This Weekend to Make Note of a Time We’ll Never Forget
Complete Works, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Forced Entertainment, Courtesy of Portland Insitute for Contemporary Art [UPDATE: Two in-person, outdoor events from this festival that the Mercury recommended have been postponed, due to hazardous wildfire air. Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr.’s Grandmother(s)’s Kitchen Presents: Bring Your Own Blanket Free Community Picnic, scheduled for Sunday, September 13th, and […]
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The Best Movies and Shows to Stream in Portland This Weekend: September 10-13, 2020
Thin Skin, a new film by our sister site The Stranger‘s own Charles Mudede, is screening this Saturday as part of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time Based Art Festival. If the ongoing amalgam of bad news (helmed at the moment by wildfire smoke worsening the air quality throughout the state) has you searching […]
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The Best Movies and Shows to Watch in Portland This Weekend: Sept 3–6, 2020
Pepe, the world’s most controversial frog, is the subject of a new documentary out this weekend, Feels Good Man. Movie theaters are still closed for the most part, but you can get close to that big-screen experience with drive-in screenings of classics like The Lost Boys, or you can cue up movies at home available […]
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SUBMISSIONS DUE THIS FRIDAY—NOW Is the Time to Submit to SLAY, Our New Horror Film Festival
It’s official: The world loves HUMP!—America’s sweetest homemade-porn film festival, where entrants make short dirty movies for the chance to win impressive cash prizes! And now, the freaky minds behind HUMP! (and SPLIFF, our cannabis-themed film festival) have a brand-new and terrifyingly fun contest we know you’re going to love: SLAY—a film festival for fans […]
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Boys State Is Civility Propaganda of the Highest Order
Steven Garza for Prez 2040 Courtesy of A24 Short of watching a bald eagle burst into flames and drop into the ocean, the closest you can come to emotionally preparing yourself for the November election is streaming Boys State on Apple TV+. Co-directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, Boys State presents an allegory of […]
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Quick! Enter Your Short Horror Movie in Our Scary Film Fest, SLAY!
It’s official: The world loves HUMP!—America’s sweetest homemade-porn film festival, where entrants make short dirty movies for the chance to win impressive cash prizes! And now, the freaky minds behind HUMP! (and SPLIFF, our cannabis-themed film festival) have a brand-new and terrifyingly fun contest we know you’re going to love: SLAY—a film festival for fans […]
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Your Short Horror Movie Can Win BIG BUCKS in Our SLAY Film Fest!
It’s official: The world loves HUMP!—America’s sweetest homemade-porn film festival, where entrants make short dirty movies for the chance to win impressive cash prizes! And now, the freaky minds behind HUMP! (and SPLIFF, our cannabis-themed film festival) have a brand-new and terrifyingly fun contest we know you’re going to love: SLAY—a film festival for fans […]
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WATCH: A Beautiful Short Film Documenting a Portland Protest
Cecilia Brown Cecilia Brown is an award-winning multimedia journalist based in Portland. She recently finished producing season four of Listeners Podcast, and in 2020 was named Best Oregon Filmmaker by the McMinnville Film Festival for her short documentary Root Shocked. She’s also interested in stories related to immigration, race, and health, and in this short […]
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NOW Is the Time to Submit to SLAY, Our New Horror Film Festival
It’s official: The world loves HUMP!—America’s sweetest homemade-porn film festival, where entrants make short dirty movies for the chance to win impressive cash prizes! And now, the freaky minds behind HUMP! (and SPLIFF, our cannabis-themed film festival) have a brand-new and terrifyingly fun contest we know you’re going to love: SLAY—a film festival for fans […]
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A New, Black Batwoman Brings Out the Trolls
Javicia Leslie (a Black actress) replaces Ruby Rose (a white actress) as Batwoman… what could go wrong? Courtesy CW / Amy Sussman / Getty Images Earlier this month, Warner Bros. Television, the CW, and Berlanti Productions announced that Javicia Leslie would be the new series lead of the CW superheroine action drama Batwoman. Leslie, a […]