ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS Ah! Cinema!
  • ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS Ah! Cinema!

Tomorrow's Friday, when theaters switch over their schedules—which means tonight is the last chance you'll get to see the below movies in Portland before they leave the big screen forever. A quick rundown of what you'll need to go to tonight if you want to see it in a theater with a beer in hand:

Dope (9 pm at the Laurelhurst, 2735 E Burnside, $4)—Megan Burbank wrote...

Unlike most movies that address underground economies, Dope doesn't ever set up a false dichotomy between where Malcolm comes from and where he's headed—he sells drugs on the internet and gets into Harvard. In this sense, Famuyiwa manages the impossible: He remixes the teen movie genre into something smarter—and more political.

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (7:15 pm at the Hollywood, 4122 NE Sandy, $8)—Eric D. Snider wrote...

If you grew up watching low-budget '80s action flicks on VHS, Electric Boogaloo is an indispensably entertaining doc. True anecdotes about Mssrs. Golan and Globus, the enthusiastic but undiscerning Israeli entrepreneurs who funneled hundreds of schlocky titles like American Ninja and Bloodsport into cinemas, are better than most of the movies.

Fright Night (9:30 pm at the Laurelhurst, 2735 E Burnside, $4)—1985's vampire flick, not the remake starring Doctor Who and Ray Velcoro.

Beetlejuice (4:30 and 9:35 at the Academy, 7818 SE Stark, $4)—Look, don't go to this. I mean, yes, it's great—but you're just going to walk out all sad that Tim Burton doesn't make good movies anymore.

And it's the closing night of the Portland Queer Film Festival (Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st, Out to Win at 7 pm and Those People at 9:30 pm, $10). More on those movies at the fest's official site.

So there you go. Go see some movies, before they disappear and a bunch of new ones show up.