We've got issues.
Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.
A masterpiece can be a hard thing to overcome, especially when it occurs early in an artist’s career. For my money, director Christopher Nolan’s second … Continue reading
Where to begin with The Little Hours, a new comedy written and directed by Jeff Baena and based on Boccaccio’s 1353 masterpiece The Decameron? The … Continue reading
You know the voice: a burbling purple baritone hung like a bass note plucked by the hand of God, a testosterone lullaby, a heavenly man-purr, … Continue reading
Too much has already been said about It Comes at Night, a completely insidious and utterly unsettling new horror film that continues to worm its … Continue reading
The premise is strictly film noir: Returning from a road trip to Seattle, a high school valedictorian from Oregon — an all-American kid, first-chair trumpet … Continue reading
Perhaps it’s just fate, a roll of the dice, but in all the several years I’ve been reviewing the work of community theaters, I’ve seen … Continue reading
Alongside baseball, the sport of boxing has provided a seemingly inexhaustible supply of stories for movies to tell. Brutal, lonely and intimately attuned to the … Continue reading
Ponderous, pornographic and unforgivably dull, Alien: Covenant proves once and for all that Ridley Scott is the single biggest hack in contemporary Hollywood — a … Continue reading
Even now, several days after seeing it, digesting it and churning it all over in my mind, I find I’m having a mixed response to … Continue reading
Whether aging is kind to an actor seems to be largely a matter of choice, and by extension, integrity. Often, great actors getting on in … Continue reading