Ten Days of Action
The Eugene Environmental Film Festival starts Oct. 11 at Art House
“If you listen to nature, it will lead the way,” says tribal elder Gagai Taimanav from Rotuma Island in the movie Hidden in Plain Sight. … Continue reading
Film
‘A Public Space’
The Eugene Art House will host a free screening of A Public Space, a local documentary, August 15
The Eugene Art House hosts a free screening and discussion of A Public Space, a short documentary about what public space means in Eugene with … Continue reading
Smiling Through It
Smiling Friends mixing joy with horror and weirdness in the best way
by Ridic Ferrand This year, I’ve been streaming the Cartoon Network’s newest Adult Swim animated series, Smiling Friends. For the last decade, I have been … Continue reading
Murder Mysteries
Who doesn’t love a good story about unsolved crimes? As a longtime Law & Order: Special Victims Unit watcher and a fan of Mary Higgins … Continue reading
He’s Invincible!
Adult animated series tells a story of what imperfect superheroes look like
The adult animated series Invincible follows Mark Grayson, a seemingly ordinary teenager who discovers he has inherited incredible abilities from his father, Omni-Man, one of … Continue reading
The Fallout …
of a good video game adaptation on Amazon
Crawling out through the fallout of terrible video game adaptations, Amazon Prime Studio’s Fallout TV series is a perfect representation of the perennial video game … Continue reading
Bridgerton Obsession
Season three of Bridgerton sure has me anxiously waiting to find out what happens in part two
Steamy, sensual and sensational — my exact description of season three of the Netflix series Bridgerton. Set in England during the Regency era in the … Continue reading
Murder in Black and White
The latest, creepy, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been made into a movie twice, the more recent attempt, in 1999, featuring Matt Damon in … Continue reading
Uplifting Crime Drama from Down Under
Fascinating detective stories, minus car chases and gore
The Brokenwood Mysteries, streaming on Acorn, Amazon Prime, Roku and other services, is the best quirky murder mystery police procedural you’ve never heard of. It’s … Continue reading
2020 Realness
Stress Positions is so much more than a COVID comedy
It’s 2020 (shivers) and Terry Goon is trying and often failing to keep a strict quarantine in his ex-boyfriend’s brownstone in New York City while … Continue reading