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Friday, February 15, 2008

Film DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS: It’s a Good News/Bad News Sort of Deal.

Posted by Erik Henriksen on Fri, Feb 15 at 6:14 PM

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Like ripping off a Band-Aid, it’s always best to get the bad news out of the way first. Here it is: The peeps who got us the movie times for the Academy Theater gave us the wrong times this week. So those Academy times that’re in the paper this week? Uh, yeah. They’re wrong. That fucking sucks, I know, because everyone and their mom (and especially your mom) knows that the Mercury’s movie times are easily the most thorough and reliable in town. So even though mistakes like this only happen in the Mercury every once in a great while, we still regret the error.

The good news, however, is this: Via Found It!, we’ve got the current Academy times all updated and reliable.

And! Now also seems like a good opportunity to brag about our constantly-updated coverage of the Portland International Film Festival—we’ve got a ton of reviews of stuff that’s playing at PIFF this year (even more online than in the paper), and all of it’s easily accessible via (you guessed it) Found It! and our listings for the Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium and Broadway Metroplex. Check out our web-exclusive reviews of films like Operation Filmmaker, Silent Light, Shotgun Stories, Snow Angels, Romulus, My Father, and more.

Again, sorry for the fuck up. As a certain Cloud City administrator would say, “It’s not my fault!” Which it isn’t. But hey, at least this movie times business is just kind of inconvenient and annoying—it’s not like we’re, you know, pretending to be your friend while surreptitiously tricking you into getting tortured by Darth Vader or anything. Man! Lando Calrissian! What a jerk!

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