The Dog Stars

2026 · 2h · R

The Dog Stars (2026) is playing this week at 4 independent theaters in Portland — Bagdad Theater & Pub, Empirical Theater at OMSI, Laurelhurst Theater and 1 more. Next showtime: Today, 5:00 PM at Empirical Theater at OMSI.

Featured in Week of August 27 – September 2, 2026

After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.