Dom
@sinacolad.bsky.social
film critic: @portlandmercury.com, other stuff; Werner Herzog blog: wernerherzblog.substack.com; lb: https://boxd.it/9sMh; member: @portlandcritics.bsky.social and @cascadiacritics.bsky.social
For all the love our mayor Keith Wilson showers on cops, I can attest to the fact that he was at an early screening of BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE to talk to people before the show and he DID NOT stay for the movie.
September 26, 2026 at 2:19 AM
For all the love our mayor Keith Wilson showers on cops, I can attest to the fact that he was at an early screening of BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE to talk to people before the show and he DID NOT stay for the movie.
WOW, finally getting a release music.apple.com/us/album/dre...
Dream of Flight by Popol Vuh on Apple Music
Song · 2026 · Duration 2:40
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September 26, 2026 at 12:39 AM
WOW, finally getting a release music.apple.com/us/album/dre...
#LastFourWatched haven’t watched a movie since Monday actually
September 25, 2026 at 2:06 PM
#LastFourWatched haven’t watched a movie since Monday actually
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“Inhabited by Robert Pattinson, Hansen is possessed,” writes Mercury critic Dom Sinacola. “Primetime strikes a uniquely audacious tone. Both heightened and haughty, somber and zany, it’s a film about terrible ends—and the means to those terrible ends—that is also absolutely thrilling entertainment.”
Biding His Primetime: Robert Pattinson Attains Peak Weird Guy Form - Portland Mercury
Inhabited by Robert Pattinson, Chris Hansen is possessed.
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September 25, 2026 at 2:11 AM
“Inhabited by Robert Pattinson, Hansen is possessed,” writes Mercury critic Dom Sinacola. “Primetime strikes a uniquely audacious tone. Both heightened and haughty, somber and zany, it’s a film about terrible ends—and the means to those terrible ends—that is also absolutely thrilling entertainment.”
“What would have happened if I wasn’t here?” I reviewed PRIMETIME for the @portlandmercury.com. It’s very good.
Inhabited by Robert Pattinson, Chris Hansen is possessed. It’s nothing and everything like Hansen, as if Pattinson’s playing to a memory of watching Hansen on a small cathode ray tube TV. @sinacolad.bsky.social is on 🔥
Biding His Primetime: Robert Pattinson Attains Peak Weird Guy Form - Portland Mercury
Inhabited by Robert Pattinson, Chris Hansen is possessed.
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September 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
“What would have happened if I wasn’t here?” I reviewed PRIMETIME for the @portlandmercury.com. It’s very good.
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In honor of Patricio Guzmán, all of his available filmography is streaming for free on Ovid, Docuseek, and Icarus Films until the end of tomorrow. www.ovid.tv/patricio-guz...
Patricio Guzmán - OVID.tv
Patricio Guzmán (1941-2026) was born in Santiago, Chile. As an adolescent in the late 1950's he became drawn to documentary filmmaking when he had the opportunity to see some of the films of Chris Mar...
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September 24, 2026 at 7:57 PM
In honor of Patricio Guzmán, all of his available filmography is streaming for free on Ovid, Docuseek, and Icarus Films until the end of tomorrow. www.ovid.tv/patricio-guz...
The Palm Springs Art Museum just finished up a small but really lovely exhibition of a bunch of Bob Mackie’s sketches/designs, what an incredible talent
September 14, 2026 at 6:33 PM
The Palm Springs Art Museum just finished up a small but really lovely exhibition of a bunch of Bob Mackie’s sketches/designs, what an incredible talent
Thanks to @portlandmercury.com for continuing to allow me to make jokes about movies in the pages of an actual print magazine.
September 12, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Thanks to @portlandmercury.com for continuing to allow me to make jokes about movies in the pages of an actual print magazine.
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Twelve movies to see in theaters this fall, including Practical Magic 2, the Portland-based stop-motion film Wildwood, Primetime, and Resident Evil.
Twelve Movies To Put on Your Calendar for Fall 2026 - Portland Mercury
This season Robert Pattinson gets to do his most favorite thing in the world: talk in a weird voice.
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September 10, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Twelve movies to see in theaters this fall, including Practical Magic 2, the Portland-based stop-motion film Wildwood, Primetime, and Resident Evil.
Sunday, December 20th is the 30th anniversary of BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA… any local theaters looking for rep screening ideas?
25 Years Later, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Still Bears Witness to a Country Going Down
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September 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Sunday, December 20th is the 30th anniversary of BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA… any local theaters looking for rep screening ideas?
Really lovely, and beautifully vulnerable, intro to the issue she edited by @suzettesmith.bsky.social, putting the impossible into words
The Mercury's Fall Arts Issue has arrived, and the theme is "Clowns." Here's why.
The Mercury's 2026 Fall Arts Issue: Why Is the Theme Clowns? - Portland Mercury
This spring I took my partner to the hospital, and then essentially lived there at his bedside for the next two months, sucking up to doctors and sleeping in recliner chairs. He lost. I lost. We lost. I am a person who communicates for a living, but I doubt I’ll ever be able to understand […]
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September 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Really lovely, and beautifully vulnerable, intro to the issue she edited by @suzettesmith.bsky.social, putting the impossible into words
For @portlandmercury.com’s Fall Arts Issue, I preview all the new movies you’ll be going to see this autumn, including multiple video game adaptations, the Stallone biopic, beloved Portland propaganda Wildwood, and a movie-length goon-sesh for vore fetishists. The latest in my quarterly film column:
Twelve Movies To Put on Your Calendar for Fall 2026 - Portland Mercury
This season Robert Pattinson gets to do his most favorite thing in the world: talk in a weird voice.
www.portlandmercury.com
September 10, 2026 at 5:52 PM
For @portlandmercury.com’s Fall Arts Issue, I preview all the new movies you’ll be going to see this autumn, including multiple video game adaptations, the Stallone biopic, beloved Portland propaganda Wildwood, and a movie-length goon-sesh for vore fetishists. The latest in my quarterly film column:
I’ve been thinking a lot about AI, because outside of art and art criticism circles—where it’s openly derided by even someone like Travis Knight—AI has become all-consuming. At my job, every single person uses it, and is encouraged to use it, and must constantly hear about its benefits.
I’m sorry to share this AI slop—truly just ugly garbage—but I’m actually a bit surprised by how many boomer-coded accounts are loving this on Bsky. At least on Threads, you can’t post anything AI without everyone telling you that you are a stupid asshole fake artist, as it should be.
September 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I’ve been thinking a lot about AI, because outside of art and art criticism circles—where it’s openly derided by even someone like Travis Knight—AI has become all-consuming. At my job, every single person uses it, and is encouraged to use it, and must constantly hear about its benefits.
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You’ve just gotta laugh: Portland Metro Chamber, weirdly under their former name Portland Business Alliance, got awarded one of Portland Business Journal’s “Best Places to Work.”
A reminder that Portland taxpayers pay PMC executive salaries, and that PMC gave the PBJ’s publisher an award last year.
A reminder that Portland taxpayers pay PMC executive salaries, and that PMC gave the PBJ’s publisher an award last year.
September 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
You’ve just gotta laugh: Portland Metro Chamber, weirdly under their former name Portland Business Alliance, got awarded one of Portland Business Journal’s “Best Places to Work.”
A reminder that Portland taxpayers pay PMC executive salaries, and that PMC gave the PBJ’s publisher an award last year.
A reminder that Portland taxpayers pay PMC executive salaries, and that PMC gave the PBJ’s publisher an award last year.
Disgusting. I’m ashamed Loretta Smith represents my district as well.
ICYM here are some of Eric Zimmerman's insults to the dozens of people testifying in favor of a universal human & enviro rights screen on the city investment policy, which a) doesn't name countries b) the council already voted to develop. These are outright lies about our (public record) testimony.
September 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Disgusting. I’m ashamed Loretta Smith represents my district as well.
Hi I’m Dom Sinacola, a writer/critic living in Portland, OR with my wife and two small dogs.
I think every second of Bonnie Prince Billy’s “I See a Darkness” constitutes the most moving song ever made, but especially when he asks a friend, “But can you see / what’s inside of me?”
I think every second of Bonnie Prince Billy’s “I See a Darkness” constitutes the most moving song ever made, but especially when he asks a friend, “But can you see / what’s inside of me?”
September 6, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Hi I’m Dom Sinacola, a writer/critic living in Portland, OR with my wife and two small dogs.
I think every second of Bonnie Prince Billy’s “I See a Darkness” constitutes the most moving song ever made, but especially when he asks a friend, “But can you see / what’s inside of me?”
I think every second of Bonnie Prince Billy’s “I See a Darkness” constitutes the most moving song ever made, but especially when he asks a friend, “But can you see / what’s inside of me?”
I’m sorry to share this AI slop—truly just ugly garbage—but I’m actually a bit surprised by how many boomer-coded accounts are loving this on Bsky. At least on Threads, you can’t post anything AI without everyone telling you that you are a stupid asshole fake artist, as it should be.
September 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I’m sorry to share this AI slop—truly just ugly garbage—but I’m actually a bit surprised by how many boomer-coded accounts are loving this on Bsky. At least on Threads, you can’t post anything AI without everyone telling you that you are a stupid asshole fake artist, as it should be.
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“One person on Go Portland Go’s steering committee, Vikki Payne, made news earlier this year when the Mercury reported on a series of images showing a group chat between local real estate broker Brian Owendoff and other local political activists using racist and homophobic slurs[.]”
lol jfc
lol jfc
A new coalition, Go Portland Go, which filed as a political action committee (PAC) with the state in April, says it is pooling resources behind “leaders who can actually run a progressive city.”
Grassroots or Astroturf? “Go Portland Go” Campaign Backed By Conservative Donors - Portland Mercury
“Portland doesn’t have a money problem. It has a leadership problem. The next election is our chance to change that.” That’s a statement on the homepage of a new coalition, Go Portland Go, which filed...
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August 30, 2026 at 12:51 AM
“One person on Go Portland Go’s steering committee, Vikki Payne, made news earlier this year when the Mercury reported on a series of images showing a group chat between local real estate broker Brian Owendoff and other local political activists using racist and homophobic slurs[.]”
lol jfc
lol jfc
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Pretty disappointed to see a handful of notable Portland restaurants lend their name to the latest “Portland business chamber in sheep’s clothing” PAC. props for how breathlessly they repeat the word “progressive” in their rhetoric to justify their plan of tax cuts and more cops www.goportlandgo.org
Go Portland Go! | Pragmatic Progressive Leadership for Portland, OR
We're building a grassroots coalition to elect pragmatic Portland leaders who pair compassion with accountability. Join us to make Portland work again.
www.goportlandgo.org
August 28, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Pretty disappointed to see a handful of notable Portland restaurants lend their name to the latest “Portland business chamber in sheep’s clothing” PAC. props for how breathlessly they repeat the word “progressive” in their rhetoric to justify their plan of tax cuts and more cops www.goportlandgo.org
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The Oregonian doing free advertising for mass surveillance during the rise of fascism. These tools in the wrong hands, or any hands, are dangerous. Please research how police have used Flock and license plate readers to stalk and abuse women.
Detectives believed Benjamin C. Parker had stolen one of the victim’s vehicles - a Toyota 4Runner SUV - and traced his phone to Enumclaw, a 5.2-square-mile city of about 13,000 located roughly 190 miles north of the crime scene, police said.
https://mrf.lu/2C0Pt
https://mrf.lu/2C0Pt
August 26, 2026 at 5:45 PM
The Oregonian doing free advertising for mass surveillance during the rise of fascism. These tools in the wrong hands, or any hands, are dangerous. Please research how police have used Flock and license plate readers to stalk and abuse women.
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Oregonians have a lot to say about who we are, and who we aren't, but we have no document to guide us. So I figured I would write one.
Here is my manifesto for Oregon. I'm proud to have written it for @oregonhumanities.bsky.social "Revolution" issue.
oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine...
Here is my manifesto for Oregon. I'm proud to have written it for @oregonhumanities.bsky.social "Revolution" issue.
oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine...
Together Is All We've Got
A manifesto for Oregon by Leah Sottile
oregonhumanities.org
August 25, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Oregonians have a lot to say about who we are, and who we aren't, but we have no document to guide us. So I figured I would write one.
Here is my manifesto for Oregon. I'm proud to have written it for @oregonhumanities.bsky.social "Revolution" issue.
oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine...
Here is my manifesto for Oregon. I'm proud to have written it for @oregonhumanities.bsky.social "Revolution" issue.
oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine...
Portland: TONY starts this weekend at @cinema21-portland.bsky.social, Laurelhurst Theater, St. John’s Twin Cinemas, and Regal Fox Tower, among others. My review at the @portlandmercury.com
Tony Serves Up a Feast of Fresh, Simple Ingredients - Portland Mercury
Just watching Antonio Banderas make ketchup can be so intimate.
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August 22, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Portland: TONY starts this weekend at @cinema21-portland.bsky.social, Laurelhurst Theater, St. John’s Twin Cinemas, and Regal Fox Tower, among others. My review at the @portlandmercury.com