Sunday, September 6, 2026

Movies for October: Tony and Marty Supreme

     Nic Bentley will host our noon, Oct. 7 meeting at his home with a Zoom option, and we will be discussing:

Tony (2026)

     The 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
     
Director:  Matt Johnson
Writers: Todd Bartels, Lou Howe and Matt Johnson
Stars: Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas and Emilia Jones

Marty Supreme (2025)

     Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

Director: Josh Safdie
Writers: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow and Odessa A'zion

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Scores for September 2026 movies:


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Monday, August 17, 2026

Movies for September: The Odyssey and Memento

     Bill Triest will host our noon September  2 meeting at his home with a Zoom option, and we will be discussing:

The Odyssey (2026)

     After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens and Calypso along the way.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Christopher Nolan and Homer
Stars: Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Anne Hathaway     


Memento (2000)


     A former insurance investigator who now suffers from anterograde amnesia uses notes and tattoos to hunt down his wife's murderer. 

Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano


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Scores for August 2026 movies:

Absolute Power (1997): 6.125 (8 votes)


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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Movies for August: The Company You Keep and Absolute Power

      Dean Hiser will host our noon August 5 meeting at his home with a Zoom option, and we will be discussing: 

The Company You Keep (2012)

     After a journalist discovers the identity of a former Weather Underground activist, the anti-war radical goes on the run. 

Director: Robert Redford
Writers: Lem Dobbs and Neil Gordon
Stars: Robert Redford, Brit Marling and Stanley Tucci


Absolute Power (1997)

    Career thief Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) witnesses a horrific crime involving U.S. President Alan Richmond (Gene Hackman).

Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: David Baldacci and William Goldman
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Ed Harris



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Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Movies for July: Sentimental Value and Michael Clayton

     Carl Carlson will host our noon July 1 meeting at his home with a Zoom option. We will be discussing:


Sentimental Value (2025)

    An intimate exploration of family, memories and the reconciliatory power of art. 

     Director: Joachim Trier
     Writers: Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
     Stars: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas


Michael Clayton (2007)

     A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.

     Director: Tony Gilroy
     Writer: Tony Gilroy
     Stars: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson



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Scores for June 2026 movies:

The  Promised Land (2023) 7.9 (eight voting)


Films of Merit

Come from Away (2026), a musical featuring Reed Bentley at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR.




         

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Saturday, May 9, 2026

Movies for June: The Promised Land and Triangle of Sadness

      Joe Robinson will host our June 3 meeting at 12:30 p.m. in Cedar Hills Park at 2300 Cedar Hills Blvd. in Beaverton. Those drinking alcohol should decant in a discreet container. We will discuss the following two films


The Promised Land (2023)

     The story of Danish soldier and explorer Captain Ludvig Kahlen, who explored and cultivated Denmark's wild Jutland, which now comprises the vast majority of the country, in the mid-18th Century. The area is under the rule of Frederik De Schinkel, a crooked, merciless nobleman who realized the threat this new farm represents to his corrupt dealings.

     Director: Nikolaj Arcel
     Writers: Nikolaj Arcel, Anders Thomas Jensen and Ida Jessen
     Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin and Simon Bennebjerg

     

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

     A satirical dark comedy about a celebrity supermodel couple who decide to take a Mediterranean cruise with the ultra rich to try on their new elevated social status. 

     Director: Ruben Ostlund
     Writer: Ruben Ostlund
      Stars: Thobias Thorwid, Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean

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Scores for May 2026 movies:


The Way We Speak (2024)  6.7 (9 votes)
Little Wing (2024)   6.9 (9 votes)



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Friday, April 3, 2026

Movies for May: The Way we Speak and Little Wing

      Bill Graves will host our May 6 meeting at noon at his home with a zoom option. We will have Scott Bernard Nelson, a Portland actor, join us to describe his work on the local film scene. And we will discuss two independent feature films made in Portland:


The Way We Speak (2024)

     An up-and-coming writer refuses to leave the spotlight when his best friend and debate opponent suffers cardiac arrest, leading to a rift between the writer and his ailing wife, and to the writer's obsession over his new opponent -- a bestselling author.

     Director: Ian Ebright
     Writer: Ian Ebright
     Stars: Patrick Fabian, Diana Coconubo and Kailey Rhodes

Little Wing (2024)

     A 13-year-old girl is dragged into the world of pigeon racing as she deals with her parents' divorce and the impending loss of her home.

     Director: Dean Israelite
     Writers: John Gatins and Susan Orlean
     Stars: Brooklynn Prince, Che Tafari and Brian Cox


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Scores for April 2026 movies:

Alien (1979) 7.9 (8 vjotes)


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Thursday, March 5, 2026

Movies for April: Project Hail Mary and Alien

       Don Nugent will host our April 1 meeting at noon at Bethany's Table, and we will discuss two science fiction movies: 


Project Hail Mary (2026)

     Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spaceship light years from Earth. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing the sun and thus save Earth. 

     Directors: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
     Writers: Drew Goddard and Andy Weir
     Stars: Ryan Gosling, Milana Vayntrub and Ken Leung


Alien (1979)

      After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.

     Director: Ridley Scott
     Writers: Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett
     Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt and John Hurt


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