Movies & TV

OPENING ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE– Century Eastport 16 AMERICAN FRIEND-Northwest Film Center at Whitsell Auditorium BETTER LIVING THROUGH CIRCUITRY– Northwest Film Center at The Guild Theater DISTANCE FORMULA TRAVELLING CINEMA— Lola’s at the Crystal Ballroom FOREIGNER– Northwest Film Center at The Guild Theater GRASS– Cinema 21 HAMLET– Koin Center PERFECT STORM– Broadway Metroplex SHOWER– […]

BE SURE YOU TOKE UP before seeing Grass, Ron Mann’s hilarious but ultimately superficial look at the government’s 65-plus year crusade against marijuana. Stoned is the best way to appreciate the film’s fast-paced cavalcade of clips from Hollywood movies, educational movies, TV shows, presidential press conferences, and staged police drug raids, all designed to convince […]

RAVERS, especially glow-stick toting candy ravers, really get a bad rap, and after seeing rave documentary Better Living Through Circuitry, I can see why. It was most likely not director John Reiss’ intention to paint rave culture as a long-running surface study in vapidity (and later, a spooky, dogmatic pseudo-spiritual cult), but that’s exactly what […]

Celebrate your independence by sitting on your fat can and watching these red, white, and blue flicks on the tube! • Fantastic Voyage (1966)–Itty-bitty scientists take the scenic route though a dying man’s blood stream with hubba-hubba Raquel Welch! (Sat July 1, 11 am, AMC) • Rocky (1976)–Sylvester Stallone represents a white America who can’t […]

Do me a favor: Don’t buy a DVD player. You’ll only fuck it up for the rest of us. The fewer the people who own players, the less likely studios are to dumb down DVDs by reducing extras like commentary tracks and languages. If, however, you are a fellow elitist snob, here are some of […]

Thursday, June 22 8:00 FOX BRITNEY IN HAWAII Britney Spears and pals tempt the ire of the volcano gods by performing live in Hawaii. 9:00 A&E MURDER ONE This terrific and short-lived series returns, starring the bald and beautiful Daniel Benzali. Friday, June 23 9:00 FX TOUGHMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Washed-up pro football players and wrestlers […]

  OPENING AMERICAN GYPSY– Northwest Film Center @Whitsell Auditorium CHICKEN RUN– Century Eastport 16 GROOVE– Northwest Film Center @Whitsell Auditorium KADOSH– Movie House KIKUJIRO– Cinema 21 L’ETRANGER VENU D’AFRIQUE– Northwest Film Center @The Guild Theater LAST ANGRY MAN: OREGON’S SENATOR WAYNE MORSE– Northwest Film Center @Whitsell Auditorium LIFESTYLE: GROUP SEX IN THE SUBURBS– Clinton Street […]

CHICKEN RUN is about chickens trying to escape. It is very funny and exciting. Each chicken has a great sense of humor and is weird. Rocky is a lazy liar, and Ginger is a determined and nice chicken. There is another chicken who loves to knit; if you look at her, she’ll definitely be knitting. […]

THERE’S A LOT OF HUMANITY in the film The Lifestyle–human tragedy revealed in the longing for fantasy levels of sexual pleasure alongside the inevitable fate of aging and physical decay. The Lifestyle is a documentary about organized “sport fucking,” group recreational sex among middle class suburban Americans. The subtext is corporeal: cellulite, scars, smoker’s wrinkles, […]

KIKUJIRO IS WORLD-RENOWNED Japanese actor/filmmaker “Beat” Takeshi Kitano’s attempt to try his hand at something other than his usual fare of violent gangster pictures, films whose popularity and undeniable artistry have won him tremendous international prestige and a growing following in this country. Following 1997’s surprise art-house hit Fireworks–undoubtedly his most assured blend of the […]

Thursday, June 15 8:00 WB POPULAR Sam and Brooke’s latest catfight involves (wouldn’t ya know it) boys. 9:00 USA SUDDEN DEATH–Movie (1995) Jean-Claude “Wham-Bam” Van Damme stars as a hockey-playing fire marshal who likes beating the puck out of everybody. Friday, June 16 5:00 AMC HITCHCOCK MARATHON The films of Alfred Hitchcock are celebrated, starting […]

OPENING 24th ANNUAL YOUNG PEOPLE’S FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL– Northwest Film Center @ Whitsell Auditorium BOYS AND GIRLS– 82nd Avenue DREAM OF LIGHT– Northwest Film Center @ Whitsell Auditorium EXPERIMENTAL FILMS @ CINEMA NEXT DOOR– Cinema Next Door FANTASIA 2000– Division Street FIRST MAN INTO SPACE– Hollywood Theatre HAIRSPRAY– Hollywood Theatre MORTU NEGA – Northwest […]