We've got issues.
Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.
Although roughly the contemporary of those two titans of 19th-century epic Russian literature, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov was great in the minutest of scales, … Continue reading
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