Thanks, @wweek.com, for the ink about our "Hidden Fortress" screening—May 4 at the @hollywoodtheatre.org! We're excited to announce PSU film prof @patrickterry.bsky.social will join us for a post-film discussion! www.wweek.com/arts/movies/...

Weird roster, lots of injuries, limited scoring options—this team is a 7-seed because they play their assess off. Pay the man!

Michael Jackson will return in Groomsday

Guy designing the Nostromo: However many chains you think we need on the ship, double--then triple that number and that's what we'll put in the ship's chain room. Assistant: Yes, sir. And the chains are dry, of course? Designer: You're fired

We want Wemby. We are not scared of him. Deni ceaslessly driving for right-handed layups against him is going to work.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Every year, May the 4th is celebrated across the galaxy as Star Wars Day. This year, we invite you to explore Star Wars' biggest cinematic influence: Akira Kurosawa's 1958 epic THE HIDDEN FORTRESS. Tickets on sale now! hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-hid...

Friends, if you haven't read this one, do yourself a favor

i keep thinking about an iranian girl who was featured in the new york times a few months ago. she said she didn’t know how she would be able to evacuate because she couldn’t carry her cats.

one of the things I treasure most about writing is it is one of the vanishingly few remaining pursuits that involves sitting quietly with your own thoughts—something the entire tech industry has mobilized to ensure we never do again

Hey, if you’d like to support employees who were laid off today, we have a GoFundMe going: gofund.me/4eb30bba8

Oregon's media landscape continues its rapid decline. Brooke is an excellent journalist and has helped freshen up Portland Monthly in notable ways since becoming editor there. The truth is that being good at journalism means little to nothing to people who sign the checks.

NEIGHBOR [peering out window]: looks like WaPo is interviewing that unfuckable tent guy

A total year-maker to interview Bruce Campbell. At 67 and playing grief-stricken, he still knows no way but slapstick. "You have to punch yourself in the face a little bit. You don’t always know where the camera is, so you’d better overdo it." @wweek.com www.wweek.com/arts/movies/...

A total year-maker to interview Bruce Campbell. At 67 and playing grief-stricken, he still knows no way but slapstick. "You have to punch yourself in the face a little bit. You don’t always know where the camera is, so you’d better overdo it." @wweek.com www.wweek.com/arts/movies/...

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

If we can somehow become the biggest cinema in the world on Bluesky, then we'll do something stupid like give every Bluesky user who comes to a screening a free popcorn* or some shit. *Terms and conditions apply.

Bro-ed down to subterranean levels at the Goodwill in Longview, Washington. (Canadian disc of Long Good Friday???)

Any given night in Portland, there are 6 to 10 theaters showing old movies. So what happens if the deepest studio library in Hollywood history becomes restricted or neglected? I explored for @wweek.com: www.wweek.com/arts/movies/...

This is amazing from a city that doesn't even rank in the top 25 in population.

Anyway speaking of the state of cinema! Paramount now has the keys to a vault of thousands of classic films. @chancesp.bsky.social spoke to local theater owners about what that might mean for Portland's repertory scene:

Watching Politico get told they're sanewashing shit by the guy they're sanewashing is just excellent. Media cooked. Getting dunked on by the people they're protecting. We are in the post-dignity era of the press.

Chris Dudley is a brave man to run for any political office when this clip exists.

I will never forgive Trae Young for surpassing Kobe Bryant’s career high for assists in a game eight times: defector.com/i-will-never...

Aunt Gladys promised she would unfreeze my family if I picked Amy Madigan for Best Supporting Actress. (Before SAG, mind you!) A blast with BCF!

Really sick of everyone calling Rotta a nepo baby just because he was born into a slug crime family. That wasn't his choice, and he's made himself into every bit the Hutt that some of the other main Hutts are. (Durga the Hutt, His Mama the Hutt, etc.)

A romping weekend read from @thewesternedge.bsky.social. In the small town of St. Helens, Oregon, where the news media is on life support, corruption thrived. 2,500 pages of new documents have finally revealed the clear story of what happened when Brian Greenway came for Halloweentown.

Friday at the @hollywoodtheatre.org in 35mm!

I got to interview Bruce last week—a dream. Generous with his time and stories. Sincere and kind right up until the moment he was doing some goofy bit, which was in itself another form of kindness. Heal up, Bruce. The world needs you.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Extremely bummed to see Andrew go. Obviously a top-tier writer but also a skilled and supportive editor in my experience. Any arts/culture publication would be lucky to have him! Make that happen!

Ah, we've reached nostalgia for events that were roundly disappointing and annoying when they happened.

He could absolutely win the presidency of Orange County.

My favorite Chuck analysis of the 2025-26 season.

Five years ago, I published my first book! It’s about feminism & theology & the Alien movies. I’ve since seen Alien Romulus, which I’m both delighted and horrified to say lives up to my grand unified thesis about the films. I wrote a second edition in response. Signed copies can be preordered here.

Next you'll tell me they wanna move The Bone Temple to France.

Sarah and I joke fairly often about the "Curb" bit where Ted Danson takes a stab at Oscar bait. Then, the other day, we pulled up Danson's filmography to see if maybe Larry was more pointedly making fun of him for starring in fake-looking movies. The answer? My god.

On the virtues of taking as much damn time as you want. There are no rules.

Because the ... numbers got too small to measure?

Among the best directorial debuts of all time. Feb. 14 @cstpdx.bsky.social

Oregon Public Broadcasting is one of the crown jewels of public media in the US. This is a shot across its bow.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

I am of course hoping for the best for this Portland institution but I was pretty excited to have an excuse to link to @stevenhyden.bsky.social’s wonderful review of the Garth Brooks Box Set You Could Only Buy At Bass Pro Shops: www.wweek.com/music/2026/0...

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

if Martin Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz agree that you seem like you could've owned an ice cream truck, you've done something right

What's funnier than Catherine doing the harmony part 10x louder than the melody line?

Driving crooner ass newsroom

take a second to really wrap your head around this.