“MEEK’S CUTOFF,” directed by Kelly Reichardt. The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain […]
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Indie Film: Stephen King inspires creators of horror spoof made in Maine
“You Can’t Kill Stephen King” premieres Saturday at the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival.
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Slap happy
Their many fans can rejoice: There’s a new Three Stooges movie opening.
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Gods are kept to a minimum, but 3-D saves ‘Titans’ sequel
What’s the old saying — “3-D fool me once, shame on you, 3-D fool me twice, shame on me?” “Clash of the Titans” was a nearly humorless, overly digitized remake of a piece of sword-and-sorcery cheese from the 1980s, an inoffensive big-budget trifle whose biggest sin was a post-production conversion to 3-D. The “Titans” sequel […]
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Raising ‘Titanic’
James Cameron’s epic hankiefest is back in all its cheesy glory, exactly as you remember it – only this time in exquisitely rendered 3-D.
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Indie Film: Once they see Portland, they’ll want to film it
Nate Meyer’s second feature, “See Girl Run,” was filmed at various locations in Portland last summer.
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DVD releases
“Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked,” “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” and “In the Land of Blood and Honey.”
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At the Movies
OPENING THS WEEK “MIRROR MIRROR” (PG) (1:46) Stars Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer and Nathan Lane. Directed by Tarsem Singh. An evil queen steals control of a kingdom and an exiled princess enlists the help of seven resourceful rebels to win back her birthright. Opening at: Nickelodeon (Portland) Fri-Wed 1, 4, 6:45, 9:10; Windham […]
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Princess power
There’s nothing Hollywood likes better than a story with legs, even very short legs, and when the new live-action fairy tale “Mirror Mirror” opens Friday, it will be telling a tale that’s been around for about 500 years — namely, “Snow White,” the story of a girl, some bad produce and love triumphant. Naturally, there […]