Also this week: the charmless "Now You See Me: Now You Don't," Edgar Wright's "The Running Man," and Nicolas Cage in the Gnostic horror film "The Carpenter's Son."
November 6, 2025Marc Mohan
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and LaKeith Stanfield, Lynne Ramsay's first feature film since 2017 depicts a woman's frenzied descent into psychosis.
November 4, 2025Marc Mohan
Oregon's most prominent film festival returned for its 22nd year with panel discussions, social events, and more than 100 movies from around the globe.
October 31, 2025Marc Mohan
The Portland author's 560-page biography of the Hollywood icon has received rave reviews in The New York Times and The New Yorker.
October 30, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: the Australian animated film "Lesbian Space Princess," Colin Farrell in "Ballad of a Small Player" on Netflix, and "Mr. Scorsese" on Apple TV.
October 30, 2025Sydney Seymour
In the OPB documentary "Uncovering Boarding Schools" premiering Nov. 3, members of the Klamath Tribes of Southern Oregon uncover hidden stories and a legacy of resistance and resilience.
October 26, 2025Marc Mohan
Bostwick, who starred as Brad, will be at a pre-Halloween screening of the enduring cult movie Oct. 27 at Portland's Schnitzer Hall, along with the Clinton Street Cabaret.
October 23, 2025Marc Mohan
Plus: Portland's QDoc Film Festival, "Last Days," and the horror comedy "Queens of the Dead."
October 16, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: Coming of age in '70s and '80s San Francisco in "Fairyland," plus the documentaries "The Man Who Saves the World?" and "American Skyjacker," the madcap tale of a D. B. Cooper copycat.
October 9, 2025Marc Mohan
Filmmaker Raoul Peck's portrait of the author of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm" draws comparisons between Orwell's prescient social criticism and today's political climate.
October 2, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: a dog's-eye view in "Good Boy," June Squibb in "Eleanor the Great," plus "Plainclothes" and the Venezuelan "Zafari."
September 25, 2025Marc Mohan
Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel "Vineland," stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a freedom-fighting stoner trying to rescue his daughter from a Christofascist colonel played by Sean Penn.
The Emmy-winning filmmaker's portrait of an early-20th-century icon of Okanogan, WA screens Sunday, September 28 at Vancouver's Kiggins Theatre.
September 18, 2025Marc Mohan
A busy movie week includes four Portland film fests, including the 30th annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, plus documentaries spotlighting Kanye West, the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis," and more.
September 13, 2025Jim Flint
Aura Johnson, a festival staffer since 2012 with previous roles at Skywalker Sound, Zoetrope, and other major movie companies, takes over as the festival's programming chief.
September 11, 2025Marc Mohan
Also: "Democracy Noir" chronicles the rise of Hungary's far-right Fidesz Party, plus Jack Lemmon's Oscar-winning performance in "Save the Tiger" in a new Blu-ray release.
Originally scheduled to accompany a performance by the Oregon Symphony in 2020, the 10-minute VR animation finally debuted this summer under a geodesic sound dome.
September 4, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman duke it out in "The Roses," plus the Seattle-set "Know Your Place" and more.
August 21, 2025Marc Mohan
Ron Howard's latest film tells the true story of European settlers in the Galápagos in the 1930s. Plus: a restoration and re-release of 1980's "Night of the Juggler" and Riz Ahmed in "Relay."
August 14, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: Vanessa Kirby in the Portland-filmed "Night Always Comes," Jack and Jill and supernatural thrills in "Went Up the Hill," and the life of Donn Beach, inventor of tiki bar culture, in "The Donn of Tiki."
August 13, 2025Charles Rose
HoS brought the local legend – a rescored, live-foleyed, live-dubbed production of the infamous Turkish remake – to Hollywood Theatre in June.
August 12, 2025Marc Mohan
After a screening of "Megalopolis" at the Tomorrow Theater, the legendary filmmaker discussed education reform and the precarious state of modern American society, among many other topics.
August 10, 2025Brian Libby
Two decades after his first book, and following several acclaimed movies with director Kelly Reichardt, the Portland writer probes fundamental motivations and questions in his new novel "God and Sex."
August 5, 2025Marc Mohan
The horror film "Weapons," a Jeff Buckley documentary, and the bizarre comedy "Ebony & Ivory" also screen.
July 31, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: Francis Ford Coppola comes to town, plus the Clinton Street Theater's Queer Screams Festival and more.
July 24, 2025Marc Mohan
Eager to reach a superhero-fatigued audience, the latest installment in the MCU skips the self-seriousness of recent entries, opting instead for the naïve altruism of its Silver Age comic roots.
July 17, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: memories of the Rhodesian Bush War in "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," the struggles of Palestinian refugees in "To a Land Unknown," and a hot spring shark attack in "Hot Spring Shark Attack."
July 10, 2025Marc Mohan
Plus: John Malkovich in "Mr. Blake at Your Service!," life after Dracula in "Abraham's Boys," and a weekend of noir at the Hollywood Theatre.
July 8, 2025Marc Mohan
The three-day event at Lakewood Center for the Arts featured characters and objects from Portland-made films "Pinnochio" and "Wendell & Wild" and presentations by Oregon City native Bill Plympton and others.
July 3, 2025Marc Mohan
The half-hearted seventh installment in the "Jurassic Park" franchise heads a trio of new movies featuring all manner of bloodthirsty enemies, from dinosaurs and cannibals to a corrupt for-profit health care company.
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