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Rick Levin

Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.

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This Is Not My Beautiful Wife

A body swap leads to love’s reckoning in VLT’s Prelude to a Kiss

Theater 2 months ago

I believe it was the great Irish playwright and staunch socialist George Bernard Shaw who, late in the game and long in the tooth, suggested that … Continue reading →

This Ain’t No Picnic

A big stash of gack leads to bloody mayhem in Cocaine Bear

Film 3 months ago

What makes a movie a cult movie? Certainly, the modern tendency to hail a film’s “cult” status immediately upon release belies one of the essential … Continue reading →

We Love Short Shorts

Taking a look at this year’s Oscar-nominated short films

Film 3 months ago

Let us now praise the short attention span — and, more specifically, those movies that not only cater to but celebrate our desire for a … Continue reading →

When Worse Comes to Worst

Two friends fall out in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin

Film 7 months ago

It was Hegel who famously quipped that all we really learn from history is that people learn nothing from history. Yowza, right? And so here … Continue reading →

The Trouble with Alek

Oregon congressional candidate presents the smiling face of Republican fascism

Viewpoint 7 months ago

The coming midterm elections are trending toward a nightmare that could take many of us by surprise. Nationally, a slew of candidates energized and emboldened … Continue reading →

The Tragedy of Ustad

An alleged man-eater becomes a national controversy in director Warren Pereira’s Tiger 24

Film 9 months ago

Before I talk about director Warren Pereira’s superbly crafted and deeply moving documentary Tiger 24 — which tells the tragic true-life story of a protected … Continue reading →

Don’t Look Up

Outer space is a real issue in Jordan Peele’s sci-fi thriller Nope

Film 10 months ago

Among the many qualities I might attribute to writer/director/producer Jordan Peele — expert auteur, biting satirist, modern horror maven — the only one that really … Continue reading →

Along Came a Spider

Director Chloe Okumo subverts the voyeur thriller in Watcher

Film 12 months ago

Director Chloe Okuno’s debut film, Watcher, is not an overtly feminist take on the voyeur/stalker sub-category of the thriller genre. Working with a screenplay by … Continue reading →

Down and Out 

A young homeless couple in Eugene and Springfield is portrayed with grace and honesty in local director Jarrett Bryant’s new movie Maxie

Film 1 year ago

One of my favorite films of this past year was Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, an endearing vision of young, star-crossed love that is so … Continue reading →

Don’t Sell These Short

EW’s movie critic looks at five short films nominated for the Oscars

Film 1 year ago

Short films, like short stories, are an exercise in economy and punch. They are measured in minutes, not hours, stripping away all the excelsior and … Continue reading →

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