Theater and Movies

Details: Written by Dwight Brown film critic; Published: 21 August 2023

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Vroom. Vroom. Zoom. In his bedroom, he’s a helluva a race car driver. On the racetrack, he’s even better. That’s according to this very engaging bio/spo/dra.

Details: Written by Dwight Brown film critic; Published: 25 July 2023

Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie in Barbie

Do blondes have more fun? She does. He doesn’t.

Details: Written by Dwight Brown film critic; Published: 19 July 2023

Sarah Nurse in Black Ice

Hard to imagine that in the late 1800s men of African descent played hockey in Canada. That’s a major surprise considering the demographics of today’s National Hockey League. But there’s a backstory, an evolution and lots of it is quite sobering.

Details: Written by by BOTWC Staff; Published: 12 July 2023

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The film stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as the reggae icon, focusing on Marley’s humble beginnings in Jamaica to his rise as an international superstar.

Portland Center Stage

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 08 June 2023

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Play opens June 9 and runs through July 2. BIPOC affinity night, a.k.a. The People’s Party, will be held on Friday, June 30.

Details: Written by by BOTWC Staff; Published: 26 May 2023

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Last February, Oprah Winfrey announced the revival of “The Color Purple,” a 1985 film produced by Steven Spielberg starring Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Laurence Fishburne based on Alice Walker’s 1982 book of the same name.

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 02 May 2023

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There is something for everyone at the movies this summer, both in theaters and streaming at home.

Details: Written by Aurora Hernandez; Published: 21 April 2023

Little Richard in Little Richard I Am Everything

Before Elvis, David Bowie, Prince, Harry Styles and Lil Nas X there was Little Richard. The bright, shiny North star of rock and roll.

Details: Written by Dwight Brown film critic; Published: 11 April 2023

Everett Osborne in Sweetwater

This b-ball, biofilm dribbles but can’t shoot. The direction, acting, script and tech team are all in play, but nothing scores.

Details: Written by JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer; Published: 10 April 2023

This image released by A24 shows Michelle Williams in a scene from "Showing Up." (Allyson Riggs/A24 via AP)

In Reichardt’s latest film, Michelle Williams plays a Portland, Oregon, ceramics artist of little renown but quiet devotion, trying to prepare a gallery show among distractions