Dan Savage’s 2023 HUMP! Film Festival
To boldly explore kinks and fetishes, to cross into unknown space and revel in orgasmic fantasies, Dan Savage’s 2023 HUMP! Film Festival comes to Eugene … Continue reading
Film
To Carve A Future From Your Inheritance
The three-day DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon opens March 10
The question is posed: What is it that we inherit from our respective families through the generations? Is it habits, rituals and dreams, or battles, … Continue reading
This Ain’t No Picnic
A big stash of gack leads to bloody mayhem in Cocaine Bear
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
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
Oh, Us Crazy Cat Dads
The documentary 'Cat Daddies' is playing now at Art House
Three things helped get me through the dark early days of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. The first was beer — more of … Continue reading
When Bad Gets Good
The worst movie in the world — The Room — to be screened, featuring in-person Q&A with leading actor at Corvallis’ Whiteside Theater
The first time I watched The Room, it was on the late-night network Adult Swim sometime in the late ’00s. As the credits rolled, my … Continue reading
When Worse Comes to Worst
Two friends fall out in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin
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
Witch’s Brooms, Kitchen Brooms, Oh My
How Thurman Scheumack got his brooms in Hocus Pocus 2 and more
The brooms at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter movies? That’s a Scheumack broom. The walking sticks Gandalf uses in The Lord of the Rings movies? … Continue reading
The Tragedy of Ustad
An alleged man-eater becomes a national controversy in director Warren Pereira’s Tiger 24
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
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