How does anyone first discover that they’re a film lover? It has to be tied to childhood just like...
“In order to keep a woman honorable, you must break her leg and keep her at home,” says Fernando...
There’s a marked difference between films about the Gulf War and films about the Iraq War that is obvious...
I have to admit I was initially a little skeptical of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s 2010 film Biutiful just because...
A few days ago, the lineup for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival was announced. It features two films by...
History is a treasure trove of stories more amazing than any fiction writer could invent. Two of the three...
I like to think I defy most pretentious film-geek cliches, but it would be difficult to pretend that I...
There’s a certain glorification of Mexican drug cartels in film and television that is kind of fascinating. Even the...
When I was a kid, my dad practically forced me to watch Lonesome Dove. I was convinced that...
Bagdad Theater & Pub 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. A great example of Portland’s cinematic brewpubs, the Bagdad is part...
Barbara Stanwyck once famously said, “My only problem is finding a way to play my 40th fallen female in...
Like most films, Lawrence Kasdan’s 1983 film The Big Chill is a product of its time. And yet there’s...
There’s a point in Isabel Coixet’s 2005 film The Secret Life of Words when a character asserts that everything...
An accurate history of Japanese internment camps seems conspicuously absent from the U.S. education system. Many young Americans learned...
Whenever awards season rolls around, you inevitably hear the same discussion about whether awards shows, the Oscars in particular,...
This year’s Portland International Film Festival boasts an amazing 93 feature-length films from a total of 44 countries. While...
When 76-year-old Robert Redford took the stage at the Egyptian Theatre on Jan. 17 to give his opening remarks...
It’s hard to forget that all the film’s utopian philosophizing comes on the eve of the biggest war in...
One of the promos for Fox’s new show The Following, which premiered last night in the 9 p.m. time...
It’s still strange to realize that the war in Iraq has become, for the most part, a thing of...
When Quentin Tarantino appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to promote his new movie Django Unchained...
