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WTO/99 is a reminder of people power and how the state's response shocked the community. Only the most cynical activists expected to be gassed. When it happened, it brought a huge coalition into the streets. Today, that level of police violence occurs weekly without triggering similar solidarity.

The Mercury’s Top 10 Portland Albums of 2025 Nolan Parker

Portland music is on fire right now.

Nolan Parker pulled together the Top 10 Portland Albums of 2025, spanning hardcore, hip-hop, ambient, slowcore, and everything in between.

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Really, really hoping Netflix doesn't limit repertory screenings from the vast Warner Bros catalog, as has happened with other studio acquisitions and mergers.

Still have a couple days open in March if anyone wants to sneak one in before the end of the year.

The Best Movies of 2025, According to John Waters John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’

John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’

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Grandpa Simpson sitting on a tree stump telling stories to Bart and friends.

"And to 'cyber' meant sex."

Poster with John Carpenter's face glowing green and a list of films and dates at the bottom.

Last chance to get a discount pass to see all the films in our John Carpenter series. cstpdxtickets.square.site/product/john...

Send us an email at info@cstpdx.com, but we better come in second!

Sheryl Lee from the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me saying "Gobble-gobble."

Unironically one of the best line reads in the history of cinema. She should have won an Oscar.

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Poster for the film WTO/99 which shows someone wearing a gas mask and crying with the Seattle Needle in the reflection of the googles.

Em smashes it again.

THE HARDER THEY COME (1972) was the first film we chose to start our annual Color & Sound series; it's a foundational work of global cinema. Worth searching out, if you haven't seen it.

Black and white photo of Udo Kier in a suit

Udo Kier has passed away at 81. A singular screen presence, Kier had a long history in the horror genre, starring in films including Mark of the Devil, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Blade, Feardotcom, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Dario Argento's Mother of Tears.

Thinking of blowing this whole thing up and turning it into a restaurant critic page with a running leaderboard titled THOSE WHO FELL OFF.

There would be a cryptocurrency gambling component.

Accountant: So, it looks like you had a close for about a week here?

Me: How much do you know about Val Kilmer's divorce?

Accountant: ...

Me: ...

Accountant: I've asked you many times to stop coming to my home.

Quick word of advice to all the aspiring cinema operators out there: running a series of bad movies "as a bit" is something a future accountant may define as "neither prudent nor profitable." 🤨

Meme of Roddy Piper from the movie They Live with his sunglasses on in one panel seeing Mamdani and Trump together as having alien faces and in another panel with his glasses off seeing them as normal people.

Made this for people to get mad at. You're welcome.

Unceasing fresh hell.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is coming to theaters. But this post is pure posturing. Can't miss seeing those piggies wiggle on the big screen!

Picture of Timothee Chalamet frowning and considering something, taken from an interview with Nardwuar.

Trying to decide if it's worth sitting through a five hour film surrounded by hundreds of foot fetishists.

Oh hell yeah, looks like we're gonna have a normal one here in the US of A today.

Val Kilmer, shirtless, in 1996's The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Marlon Brando, wearing a sun hat and covered in white makeup, in 1996's The Island of Dr. Moreau.

"Y'all wanna hear a story about why me and this bitch here fell out?!"

Yes. Historically, acquisitions like this have limited the availability of hundreds if not thousands of titles, increased licensing fees for venues, and stymied production of future films. Despite its flaws, Warner Bros. has been a decent studio distributor to work with on repertory screenings.

Paramount Skydance Denies That Its Warner Bros. Discovery Bid Involves Arab Sovereign Wealth Funds Paramount has formed an investment consortium with the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi to submit a $71 billion bid for WBD.

Hahaha, OK. Cool. Cool.... ☹️

If you think about it, it's actually quite brave of us to be showing three absolute dog shit movies in a row this week. No other movie theater is as committed to the bit as we are.

Cloudflare is down, so our website is down. It'll probably be back up later. Or it won't, and we'll go live in the woods.

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine of Rosa showing off her dog Arlo, but there's a whale over the dog and text has been altered to read: I've only had whale for a day and a half. But if anything happened to her, I would kill everyone in this state and then myself.

Oregonians right now.

Poster announcing a John Carpenter film series with color pencil drawings from characters in the films.

Em really killed it with this poster. You can hire them for other art projects: emaldehyde.univer.se