The documentary filmed at dog-level is available to stream through PMA Films and Frontier.
Leslie Bridgers
Columnist
Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.
Run & Eat: There’s much to like about extended menu at Maiz
You can build your own rice bowl and contribute to groceries for local families.
Bar Guide: Ironside is a whiskey lover’s paradise
The Portland Regency’s new lobby bar features flights and hard-to-find bottles.
Art review: Eyeglasses provide the medium for Tad Beck’s visionary portraits
The Vinalhaven photographer, driven to abstraction, challenges the preconceptions of his art form in his series ‘Eyes of,’ showing in Portland.
‘The Courier’ is a throwback to the kind of solid yet fun spy thriller they don’t make anymore
Benedict Cumberbatch delivers an appealing, technically tricky performance in “The Courier,” in which he plays Greville Wynne, a British salesman who in the 1960s became an improbable player in Cold War tradecraft at its most high-stakes. Wynne really did exist, a fact that bears noting because his story is often too wildly dramatic to believe. […]
Deep Water: ‘The Eyes of Love,’ by Michael Tarabilda
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
How to watch the 2021 Oscar nominees
While “Parasite” winning best picture marked one of the final widely celebrated moments before we all went into lockdown, award season chatter has been (rightfully) overshadowed this year. And with inconsistent theatrical releases, the Oscar nominees announced Monday largely consist of titles that managed to emerge as front-runners from the glut of films on streaming […]
‘The Father’ is a meticulously constructed story in which very little is what it seems
In the intricate, exquisitely crafted movie “The Father,” Anthony Hopkins plays Anthony, an elderly gentleman living in a well-appointed flat in London, which he’s been sharing with his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) until she informs him that she’s moving to Paris to be with a man she’s recently met. Such is the inciting incident in […]
Society Notebook: Portland Museum of Art holds first virtual fundraiser
The Contemporaries Winter Bash featured artist interviews, a film screening, a music performance and more.
Nico Walker’s life story made for a gripping novel. The movie version is less effective.
Tom Holland goes to impressive lengths to become unrecognizable in “Cherry,” an ambitious adaptation of Nico Walker’s semi-autobiographical novel. In that highly regarded book, the author recounted his descent from middle-class security and a promising education to his service as an Army medic in the Iraq War; when he returned home he was wracked with […]