Movies & TV

OPENING BLAXPLOITATION CARTOON SPECIAL CHUCK AND BUCK CLOCKWORK ORANGE EVENING WITH CHEL WHITE: NAKED CINEMA GIRL ON THE BRIDGE LIFE IS TO WHISTLE LOGAN’S RUN NUTTY PROFESSOR II: THE KLUMPS MOVIES & EVENTS Big Momma’s House Martin Lawrence is back, and he’s got a big old prosthetic ass. Where do I sign? 82nd Avenue * […]

THE MOST FABULOUS living room in Portland belongs to Sol Burbridge and Greg Arden. It’s decorated like a crazy grandmother had her way with it: orange ashtrays, a dish of taffy, silk roses, oil portraits of people presumably long dead. It’s the sort of place that, if it already didn’t smell lightly of cigarette smoke, […]

SO DIRECTOR MIQUEL ARTETA made Chuck & Buck with a digital camera, and Chris Weitz (Chuck) is a pretty bad actor. But regardless of a little technical roughness, this film has a thematic center of solid gold. That is, Chuck & Buck does what any good piece of literature, film, or art does: it forces […]

Did you know the Catholic Church uses trained killer-priests to hunt down the Devil’s disciples and whack them? No? Then you missed these recent Vatican Hit Squad movies: Bram Stoker’s Shadowbuilder (1998)– Burly Michael Rooker stars as a pill-poppin’, pistol-packin’ padre with a haunted past who tries to stop Satan from seizing the soul of […]

OPENING THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE BLOOD SIMPLE BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER FILMS ON THE LAWN FORBIDDEN PLANET THE IN CROWD JUAN, I FORGOT, I DON’T REMEMBER LOSER OSAKA ELEGY POKEMON 2000 TRIXIE WARGAMES WHAT LIES BENEATH MOVIES & EVENTS The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Once upon a time, a badly-drawn cartoon dependent […]

WHAT PLANET is Emily Watson from? Elfin-looking, yet surprisingly tall, with a broad open face where sparkles dwell, Watson’s eyes smile but communicate nothing. She seems to be attuned to an inner music to which no one else is privy. Directors tend to use her when they want a woman-child, a naîf lost in a […]

In Blood Simple, there is a scene in which a man, nearly dead from a bullet in his heart, drags himself away from a car parked on a lone highway. The car’s driver watches him with equal parts horror and disgust. He is clearly unable to react, but knows he must do something. Suddenly, to […]

Slinky dresses, smoky voices, sweaty skin: the heat of summer brings out bare flesh and the lust for it, at least in movies. Recent DVDs hitting the streets on Tuesdays feature some great screen queens both young and old, from femme fatales to girly girls. And God Created Woman (1956)–B.B.–That’s Brigitte Bardot to you. Blond, […]

Thursday, July 20 8:00 CBS BIG BROTHER Who will be voted out of the house tonight? Big mouth (but sexy) William, or passive-aggressive stripper Jordan? 8:00 FOX POWDER–Movie (1995) Weird albino kid with telepathic powers gets persecuted because (duh!) he’s a weird albino kid with telepathic powers! Friday, July 21 9:30 ABC MAKING THE BAND […]

Thursday, July 13 8:00 FOX SUPERCOP–Movie (1992) Jackie Chan teams up with hotsy-totsy Michelle Yeoh in this chop-socky stunt-filled classic! 8:00 CBS BIG BROTHER As reality shows go, this is the most lurid piece of shit I have ever witnessed… and I LOVE IT!! Friday, July 14 8:00 FX GROSSE POINTE BLANK–Movie (1997) John Cusack […]

OPENING ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE CLOSE-UP FUCK MICKEY MOUSE HIMATSURI (THE FIRE FESTIVAL) SAVING GRACE SEVEN SAMURAI SPECIALIST TOP GUN WARGAMES X-MEN MOVIES & EVENTS The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Once upon a time, a badly-drawn cartoon dependent upon pained sarcasm was shown upon national television. This was clearly a horrible idea, appealing […]

AS ADOLF EICHMANN, the Nazi specialist in transportation and “the Jewish Question,” testifies about his role in the Holocaust, on the other side of the room a court assistant operates a reel-to-reel tape player. On the woman’s arm, caught by the camera as though by accident, is tattooed a string of numbers, a small, chilling […]