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There have been a bunch of popular movies that were filmed in Oregon that you may not have known about. It’s pretty cool to find out that a movie you’ve

Highlights: Poteet Strawberry Festival, Oleta Adams, Ghoulish Book Festival, “Chicago”

‘A producer said: “Great – but can he dance?” So we got him to move like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever’

Short Circuit actor Fisher Stevens regrets playing an Indian character May 13, 2021 by: SHORT CIRCUIT is probably one of the most memorable films of the 80s, thanks mostly to the likable talking robot, Johnny 5. Released on May 9, 1986, Johnny 5 still feels like a next-level movie star, brought to life via a combination of then-cutting-edge special effects, as well as old-fashioned puppeteering and a solid vocal performance from Tim Blaney. While Johnny 5 has continued to age well for most f...

Joey Cramer, aged 12, in Flight of the Navigator Credit: Alamy In May 2016, headlines surfaced online that rightly shocked film fans of a certain age – former child actor Joey Cramer, star of Flight of the Navigator, had been charged with bank robbery in Canada. Seeing the headlines – accompanied by a gaunt mug shot – it was easy to write off Cramer, then 42 years old, as just another child star gone off the rails and onto the scrapheap. I was guilty of having that exact thought, and hove...

Some sequels continue a story. Others repeat it. Men in Black II creates a new threat for the MIB, but recycles the same premise, which is that mankind can defeat an alien invasion by assigning agents in Ray-Bans to shoot them into goo. This is a movie that fans of the original might enjoy in a diluted sort of way, but there is no need for it--except, of course, to take another haul at the box office, where the 1997 movie grossed nearly $600 million. The astonishing success of the original "MiB...