Doom Sin-acola

Got a gift certificate from my in-laws to a game store, so here is me trying to get back into Magic after almost 30 years.

With Wildwood, Laika has transcended what a stop-motion animation film can be and proven the form once more. Believe the hype!

I saw this in a dream

It’s everyone’s favorite Friday obligation: #LastFourWatched! This includes the first time I’ve seen “Psycho” by director Alfred Hitchcock.

A handful of registered Democrats vying for seats in local government are backed by donors who have also supported Republicans and Portland conservatives. That’s according to state data collected and presented in a new web project called Who’s Buying PDX.

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I’m very critical of Tina Kotek and people need to vote for her anyway. There’s no ranked choice in this race. The governor has the power to call in the national guard, or affect voting. That alone is too important. Christine Drazan is too dangerous. Hold your nose and do it.

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Napoleon said his favorite generals were the lucky ones. Well, books can be lucky and unlucky too, and you never know which you're working on. This one, launching in paperback tomorrow, has been lucky. Which caught me by (happy) surprise. In the words of Ed Grimley, "You never can always know!"

With so many people finally exposed to the Fielder Method via YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, I revisited a piece i wrote a year ago on reenactment and truth in documentary via THE REHEARSAL, LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY, and PAVEMENTS wernerherzblog.substack.com/p/little-die...

I almost never care about spoilers, and ask to have most movies spoiled for me, but not knowing much about You Can See Everything, and especially where it goes in its second half, feels essential to its success

The Devils in 35 mm round two tonight at @hollywoodtheatre.org …9:30 showing still has tickets! I recommended you go this week in the @portlandmercury.com

New career high for Billy Corgan

#LastFourWatched

For the Mercury, I reviewed the excellent YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING. (Full disclosure, I originally titled the review “You Can See Every Pore” and my editor suggested something different, which I’m glad she did, but in the spirit of the film, I’m just practicing radical transparency here.)

I have some regrets about not working a Next "Too Close" reference into this headline but it's honestly not always about what I want. It's about another wonderful review from @sinacolad.bsky.social for @portlandmercury.com

Do This, Do That gets Halloweeny with a horror-fueled drive-in, candy and wine pairings, Ken Russell's The Devils, and a miniature show with exhibits like “Calico Critter Murder Mystery.” Plus, the Portland Zine Symposium is back, and costumed paddlers navigate pumpkins at an unmissable regatta.

In this week’s DO THIS, DO THAT over at @portlandmercury.com, I recommend not missing THE DEVILS Director’s Cut, restored and in 35mm, at @hollywoodtheatre.org (tickets still available!)

#LastFourWatched spooky time

“Say what?”

A new complaint filed Monday alleges a web of new committees funded by the Metro Chamber's United for Portland PAC violated local and state elections laws by obscuring the true funding source of political billboards and filing false campaign-finance statements.

Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!

Good vinyl haul in bday gifts

Daffy Duck shoots himself in the face with a hunting rifle:

Saw Chat Pile last night, and the whole of their stage banter was about movies filmed in and/or taking place in Oregon, including: - Brainsmasher - Night Moves - Prefontaine - My Own Private Idaho and Drugstore Cowboy - Permanent Record Anyway, incredible show.

For all the love our mayor Keith Wilson showers on cops, I can attest to the fact that he was at an early screening of BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE to talk to people before the show and he DID NOT stay for the movie.

“Inhabited by Robert Pattinson, Hansen is possessed,” writes Mercury critic Dom Sinacola. “Primetime strikes a uniquely audacious tone. Both heightened and haughty, somber and zany, it’s a film about terrible ends—and the means to those terrible ends—that is also absolutely thrilling entertainment.”

“What would have happened if I wasn’t here?” I reviewed PRIMETIME for the @portlandmercury.com. It’s very good.

In honor of Patricio Guzmán, all of his available filmography is streaming for free on Ovid, Docuseek, and Icarus Films until the end of tomorrow. www.ovid.tv/patricio-guz...

good morning #LastFourWatched

The Palm Springs Art Museum just finished up a small but really lovely exhibition of a bunch of Bob Mackie’s sketches/designs, what an incredible talent

Thanks to @portlandmercury.com for continuing to allow me to make jokes about movies in the pages of an actual print magazine.

Twelve movies to see in theaters this fall, including Practical Magic 2, the Portland-based stop-motion film Wildwood, Primetime, and Resident Evil.