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The first time I walked into the new Broadway Metro expansion a few months back, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It felt as though I’d … Continue reading
All art is global and universal, but cinema — with its full dimensions of sound, image, language, worlds within worlds — is particularly so. The … Continue reading
It’s a mess out there, Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) tells his social worker at the start of Joker. She agrees, saying there’s a lot of … Continue reading
A few weeks following the worldwide Climate Strike, Eugene is hosting its (well-timed) second annual Environmental Film Festival downtown. EEFF kicks off on Friday with … Continue reading
When I heard there was going to be a movie adaptation of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, the first thing I thought was, “Well, that’s going … Continue reading
Leaving — it’s the true American pastime. Only squares stay put. Every free spirit, every renegade comes of age by getting the hell out of … Continue reading
Naomi Watts and Tim Roth might want to call it quits. The last time those two talented actors played a married couple on screen, in … Continue reading
Boots Riley’s debut movie is an outrageous and glorious mess. Its sympathies are intrinsically Marxist, but the aesthetics of Sorry to Bother You are a … Continue reading
The super-duper rich aren’t like you or me. They just aren’t. The lives of those who enjoy the protections and privileges of enormous wealth are, … Continue reading
If you took mid-career George Romero, the late, great godfather of the zombie flick, and injected him with a wayward dose of DNA from Alex … Continue reading
I grew up on the water. My grandfather, like his father before him, owned and skippered a commercial fishing boat, the Defiance, a purse-seiner, which … Continue reading
Clocking in at nearly three hours, and restrained to the point of relative monkishness, the new Quentin Tarantino film is leaving many moviegoers scratching their … Continue reading
Director Jordan Peele recently suggested that Ari Aster’s new film Midsommar raises the bar on horror in such an unprecedented and frankly terrifying way that … Continue reading
This is the stuff of legend, or should be: On March 22, 1895, a French camera manufacturer named Léon Gaumont attended a private screening of … Continue reading