This week at the movies: an existential Stephen King adaptation, Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal in a romcom from "Past Lives" director Celine Song, plus the Western "The Unholy Trinity" and the Portland Horror Film Festival.
June 5, 2025Marc Mohan
Plus: The Ozploitation flick "Dangerous Animals," and "Bleak Week" comes to Portland with a roster of depressing films on 35mm.
May 29, 2025Marc Mohan
Plus: Samurai action in "Tornado," Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep" restored in 4K, and more.
May 22, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: the Korean drama "A Normal Family," "Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted," and "The Cinema Within," a documentary about the psychology of film editing.
May 15, 2025Marc Mohan
Plus: the documentary "Deaf President Now!" on Apple TV+, Portland's 22nd annual Filmed by Bike festival, and battling Bigfeet in "The Siege of Ape Canyon" at the Kiggins Theatre.
May 8, 2025Marc Mohan
Two modest releases from Vertical Entertainment offer a welcome break from the standard big-budget studio fare.
May 1, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: the 1960 B-movie "College Confidential" on Blu-ray, bloody folk horror, trippy animation, and more.
April 24, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: the Sirkian melodrama "On Swift Horses," the Korean crime thriller "Yadang: The Snitch," plus documentaries, a tribute to David Lynch at the Hollywood Theatre, and more.
April 17, 2025Marc Mohan
This week at the movies: a reimagining of Ang Lee's 1993 comedy "The Wedding Banquet", a microbudget indie triumph, plus some thoughts on the latest Marvel slop.
April 10, 2025Marc Mohan
This week at the movies: in two noirish dramas, dangerous secrets lurk behind the French countryside's picturesque facade. Plus: the buddy comedy "Sacramento," "The World Will Tremble," and more.
April 3, 2025Marc Mohan
The Tarantinoesque "Freaky Tales" from directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck tells four interconnected stories set on a single day in 1987 Oakland, California.
March 27, 2025Marc Mohan
Four decades after his (presumed) death, Andy Kaufman at last gets the feature-length documentary treatment. Plus: the feel-good "Bob Trevino Likes It," and a new Blu-ray release of the 1999 sharksploitation flick "Deep Blue Sea."
March 20, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: a strange dystopia in "The Assessment," plus the sci-fi flick "Ash" and the baseball film "Eephus."
March 13, 2025Marc Mohan
An uneventful week for new releases is led by two star-studded but pointless comedies, but a Blu-ray collection of unheralded films noir from Kino Lorber offers a silver lining.
March 6, 2025Marc Mohan
The "Parasite" director follows his 2019 Best Picture win with a big-budget sci-fi satire starring Robert Pattinson.
February 27, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: the star-studded "Riff Raff," Italian filmmaker Maura Delpero's Alpine drama "Vermiglio," and the crypto-thriller "Cold Wallet."
February 20, 2025Marc Mohan
Horror meets slapstick comedy in a new adaptation of a story by Stephen King about a homicidal toy monkey.
February 13, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: Senegalese director Moussa Sène Absa at the Cascade Festival of African Films, the underwhelming "You, Me & Her," and the straight-to-streaming embarrassment "The Gorge."
February 6, 2025Marc Mohan
This year's Best Picture contenders return to theaters this month, while most other nominees are available to stream or rent on demand.
January 30, 2025Marc Mohan
Three newly released international features grapple with themes of corruption and the rule of law. Also this week: the sci-fi fable "Love Me," the 35th Cascade Festival of African Films, and more.
January 23, 2025Marc Mohan
Director RaMell Ross's adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel is ambitious and effective; plus, Portland documentarian Jan Haaken's "The Palestine Exception," the anime film "The Colors Within," and more.
January 16, 2025Marc Mohan
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof's "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" is Germany's submission for Best International Feature Film. Also this week: Mike Leigh's first film in six years, a singing simian, and more.
January 8, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: The Sonics get the documentary treatment, plus Godardian musings in "It's Not Me," and Pablo Escobar's hippos roam the Colombian jungles in "Pepe."
January 2, 2025Marc Mohan
This week at the movies: a new, three-hour adaptation of the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas, plus supernatural hauntings in "The Damned," and Palestine's submission for Best International Feature Film.
December 19, 2024Marc Mohan
Also this week: this year's Grand Prix winner "All We Imagine as Light," plus Barry Jenkins's "The Fire Inside," and Clint Eastwood's "Juror #2" streaming on Max.
December 12, 2024Marc Mohan
"The Act of Killing" director Joshua Oppenheimer follows a pair of award-winning documentaries with a post-apocalyptic musical allegory set in an underground bunker.
December 5, 2024Marc Mohan
Also this week: Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche as Odysseus and Penelope in "The Return," plus the animated animal adventure "Flow," and much more.
November 27, 2024Marc Mohan
Angelina Jolie brings majesty and gravitas to the role of Maria Callas in director Pablo Larraín's biopic about the legendary soprano.
November 21, 2024Marc Mohan
Ridley Scott's sequel to his 2000 sword-and-sandal epic doesn't tread any new ground, but it still delivers a lavishly gory spectacle worthy of the big screen.
November 13, 2024Marc Mohan
Plus: a tour through the films of the Master of Suspense in "My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock," and the Daisy Ridley thriller "Magpie."
