Recent Blog Posts

Reviews of "Trucker" and "Amelia," opening today, Oct. 23, 2009.

Trucker (2008)Director: James MotternWith: Michelle Monaghan, Jimmy Bennett, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin BrattThe “indie” film may be identified by any of several characteristics: low budget; quirky characters; big stars working for peanuts; lame stories. Very often an ind... Read more

"The World," tonight at NWFC

DIRECTOR: JIA ZHANGKEThe Northwest Film Center's "Lens on China" series continues tonight at 7pm with The World, from 2004. It's a totally absorbing, two-hours-plus visual carnival of a movie, set in a Chinese theme park. The film is gorgeous enough to be definitely wort... Read more

Press**Watch: smash the mental handcuffs

Our minds have been tasered and handcuffed into a state of paralysis. We need to start breaking through the mental handcuffs before we can even begin to make progress against the ultra-greed class that is destroying this planet. Smash the tasers and snap the handcuffs ... Read more

2009 Fall Membership Drive Wrapup

Thanks to everyone who contributed to KBOO during our Fall Membership Drive! We stopped the Drive on schedule Saturday night, despite being short of our overall fundraising goal by roughly 22% or $28,000. If you made a pledge and didn't pay with a credit/debit card, ple... Read more

News from the Board- Important News About the Recent Election

Thank you to all of you who took the time to vote in our most recent Board of Directors election. Approximately 650 members took part in this past election. This is the results of the vote tally: ELECTED Judy Fiestal - 310 Maire Cullen-Gilmore - 299 Marty Soehrman - 273 ... Read more

Reviews of "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Law Abiding Citizen," in theaters now.

Where the Wild Things AreDirector: Spike JonzeWith: Max Records, Catherine Keener, Pepita Emmerichs. Voices of: James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Paul Dano, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Michael Berry, Jr., Chris CooperLovers of Maurice Sendak’s perfect little book... Read more

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