Happy New Year from The Shadow Over Portland!

 

I hope everyone has a fun, festive and safe New Years Eve, whatever your plans are.  And I do hope 2022 is better than the past two years.

Oh.  Oh, that's not good.  Not at all.

Regardless of what the New Year has in store for us, you'll find lots of great movies and stage events within this edition of the Weekly Update to help keep your mind off the idea that green crackers might become a major part of a healthy diet soon.

And if you're hopeful enough to plan a bit further into the future, check out the Horror/Sci Fi/Fantasy Calendar, with all the film festivals, conventions and stage events I've compiled for the coming year.  But keep checking back, as I updated the site every few days.

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Happy New Year, and I'll be back on the first Friday of 2022! 

 

Playing This Week   

 

The current exhibit at Wyrd War Gallery (3505 NE Broadway St in Portland, OR) is No Future by Nathan McKee.  Drawing from classic genre films, McKee re-creates scenes utilizing layers of cut paper in a distinctive variation of the Japanese art of kirie.  The gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays from  3 to 7 pm, or you can schedule an appointment to tour the gallery.  The event runs through the holidays.   

 

Guillermo del Toro's latest film, Nightmare Alley, continues at the Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy Blvd in Portland, OR), the Broadway Metro (888 Willamette St in Eugene, OR), Salem Cinema (1127 Broadway NE in Salem, OR), The Grand Cinema (606 Fawcett Ave in Tacoma, WA) and Cinema 21 (616 NW 21st Ave in Portland, OR) through Thursday, January 6. 

 

The Central Cinema (1411 21st Ave in Seattle, WA) will show David Lynch's attempt to film the sci fi classic Dune through Friday, December 31.

 

The Academy Theatre (7818 SE Stark St in Portland, OR) will show John Carpenter's sci fi classic Escape from New York through Thursday, January 6.

Also at the Academy Theatre (7818 SE Stark St in Portland, OR) is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, playing through Thursday, January 6.

 

The Broadway Metro (888 Willamette St in Eugene, OR) and the Academy Theatre (7818 SE Stark St in Portland, OR) will continue to show the new version of Dune through Thursday, January 6.

 

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (15 S Pioneer St in Ashland, OR) presents the World Premiere of It's Christmas, Carol! on the Angus Bowmer stage through Sunday, January 2, 2022.  This "Play with Lots of Songs" skewers Dickens, holidays and Shakespeare with a dose of the Marx Brothers, fractured carols and DINOSAURS!  'Cause everything is better with DINOSAURS!!  

 

Sure, you'll have no problem watching Spider-Man: No Way Home at some big corperate multiplex.  But why not support local and independent theaters like the Joy Cinema and Pub (11959 SW Pacific Highway in Tigard, OR), the Granada 3 Theatre (1311 Adams Ave in La Grande, OR), St Johns Twin Cinema (8704 N Lombard St in Portland, OR), the Kelso Theater Pub (214 S Pacific Ave in Kelso, WA), the Blue Mouse Theatre (2611 N Proctor St in Tacoma, WA), the Darkside Cinema (215 SW 4th St in Corvallis, OR), the Laurelhurst Theater and Pub (2735 East Burnside St in Portland, OR) and the Cameo Theatre (304 E 1st St in Newberg, OR).

 

The film is also showing at the following McMenamins locations: the McMenamins Anderson School (18607 Bothell Way NE in Bothell, WA), McMenamins Bagdad (3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd in Portland, OR), McMenamins Olympic Club Theater (112 N Tower Ave in Centralia, WA), McMenamins Old St. Francis Theater (700 NW Bond St in Bend, OR), McMenamins Grand Lodge (3505 Pacific Ave in Forest Grove, OR) McMenamins St Johns (8203 N Ivanhoe St in Portland, OR) and McMenamins Power Station Theater at Edgefield (2126 SW Halsey St in Troutdale, OR).

 

Woah!  The Matrix: Resurrections continues at the Granada 3 Theatre (1311 Adams Ave in La Grande, OR) and the Laurelhurst Theater and Pub (2735 East Burnside St in Portland, OR) through Thursday, January 6.
       

December, 2021 

Friday, December 31

The Roseburg Fright Club will host a New Year's Eve Costume Ball from 8 pm to 1 pm tonight at the Roseburg Elks Lodge (749 SE Jackson St in Roseburg, OR).  This is a fundraiser for the club's Haunted House next year.  Ticket are on sale now.  You must be 21 or older to attend.

 

The Coffin Club (421 SE Grand in Portland, OR) is having a New Years Eve Ball, featuring the Post Punk Industrial Goth band Fading Signals, Portland's Siouxsie and the Banshees tribute act Bad Juju and more!  Doors open at 8 pm, showtime is 9 pm.  You must be 21 or older to attend.  

The Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) will show Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey today at 1:20 pm.

 

The Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) gives you a chance to do the Time Warp Again before 2022 with screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show tonight at 10 pm.  The screening is hosted by the Geekenders.

 

January, 2022

Saturday, January 1

Given how bad everything was in 2021, it might help to start the New Year with a laugh.  And the Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) has you covered with a screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail today at 2 pm.

The Clinton Street Theater (2522 SE Clinton St in Portland, OR) will show The Rocky Horror Picture Show tonight, with the Clinton Street Cabaret.  Doors open at 11 pm. 

 

Sunday, January 2

 

The Central Cinema (1411 21st Ave in Seattle, WA) is showing Stanley Kubrick's The Shining through Thursday, January 6.  Guess it's still winter if someone's showing that film.

 

If you think the walk to Mordor wasn't long enough, head over to the Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) for The Lord of the Rings: One Trilogy Marathon to Rule Them All.  This all day event, starting at 11 am, will screen all three films in their Extended Version.  The Rio says you can come in costume, or stay cozy in your PJs.

Monday, January 3

The Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) will screen the 2020 restoration of Akira tonight at 9:30 pm.

Tuesday, January 4

Emily Connor and the riffing robots from The Satellite of Love land at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (1037 SW Broadway in Portland, OR) tonight at 7 pm to crack wise at Making Contact (AKA Joey), the 1985 German fantasy/horror film by Roland Emmerich.

 

Wednesday, January 5

 

The Whiteside Theatre (361 SW Madison Ave in Corvallis, OR) will show the mystery comedy Clue, starring Tim Curry and Christopher Llyod, tonight at 7 pm. 

Thursday, January 6

Night Flight's Attic of Wondrous Things invites you to follow Handsome Hank, demon of the underworld, as he visits his grandmother's attic at the Portland Playhouse (602 NE Prescott St in Portland, OR).  The show will run through Sunday, January 9, and will have two different, unique shows each day (except Thursday); the early Sensual and Sultry performance, and the later Dark and Demonic one.  Tickets are on sale now.

The Central Cinema (1411 21st Ave in Seattle, WA) invites to laugh at the train-wreck of Maximum Overdrive, presented in Hecklevision, tonight at 8 pm.  Yes, Stephen King directed this while doing coke, so you know what to expect.

The post-apocalyptic black comedy Delicatessen plays at the Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) tonight at 6:30 pm.  Bon appetit!

Friday, January 7

The Grand Illusion Cinema (1403 NE 50th St in Seattle, WA) will screen See for Me, a Canadian thriller about a blind woman house sitting a secluded mansion when thieves seeking a safe haven invade the house.  She is forced to rely on an app called "See For Me," where a volunteer, who is an army veteran, helps her survive by seeing on her behalf.  It sounds brilliant and, at 93 minutes, won't outstay it's welcome.  Showtimes are Friday, January 7, at 7:30 pm, Sunday, January 9, at 4 pm, and Tuesday, January 11, at 7:30 pm.

The Central Cinema (1411 21st Ave in Seattle, WA) is showing the dark fantasy Labyrinth through Wednesday, January 12.

 

The film also plays at the Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) at 10:30 pm tonight.

The Central Cinema (1411 21st Ave in Seattle, WA) is showing dark sci fi/fantasy film The City of Lost Children through Wednesday, January 12.

 

Saturday, January 8

 

Saturday Secret Matinees return to the Grand Illusion Cinema (1403 NE 50th St in Seattle, WA) with Daredevils of the Red Circle, featuring Charles Middleton (Ming the Merciless) as the villain in this 1939 serial, with a new chapter shown each week in GLORIOUS 16mm!  Of course, what's a serial without a feature, and each week, the episode will be paired with a secret feature film.  Bi-weekly themes will provide clues, but you have to show up to find out what's being shown!  The fun starts at 1 pm.

 

The Clinton Street Theater (2522 SE Clinton St in Portland, OR) will presents a "Be It Yourself" screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show tonight.  Doors open at 11 pm.