About

This site was built by indie theater/film enthusiast, David Beach. Among many things, Beach appears to like to write about himself in the third person. This guy has lived in Portland for over 10 years and currently resides in the Montavilla neighborhood, mere steps away from the great Academy Theater. Beach has been a product manager for companies like Yahoo, eBay, and Amazon but is currently working on Blurt.fm and Kizza Me a listening bar coming soon to SE.

Portland has one of the densest independent cinema scenes in the country. Beach built this site as a way to help people easily find a great movie to see in one of our incredible and historic theaters. It's something he's been wanting, so he finally decided to build it. He is old enough to remember when you could just look at one section of one page of the newspaper to see every movie playing that day. The ink stained your fingers and you liked it. It's in that spirit that Beach made this for you.

PDX Movie Times gathers their showtimes into a single, fast directory. Browse by day, by theater, or by movie, then buy tickets straight from the theater. We never sell tickets ourselves: every showtime links to that theater’s own box office, so your money and your business go directly to the venues that make Portland’s film culture what it is.

For you nerds out there, PDX Movie Times is built with: Next.js, React, and TypeScript, hosted on Vercel Showtimes gathered nightly by scrapers running on GitHub Actions, pulled straight from each theater's own ticketing system, and stored in a lightweight SQLite database Film details and posters from TheMovieDB, with the occasional synopsis from Wikipedia Ratings from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic, fetched via the OMDb API by matching each film to its IMDb ID — with a Fresh or Rotten tomato shown next to the Rotten Tomatoes score. Because we list showtimes weeks ahead, we re-check each still-playing film nightly, so critic scores fill in on their own once they're published. TheMovieDB's own audience score stands in as a fallback for rarer repertory titles the critics never got to, and every film links out to Letterboxd Maps by Leaflet with OpenStreetMap and CARTO tiles Cookieless analytics via PostHog; contact form delivered by Resend; newsletter by Buttondown

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

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Hugs, Beach