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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
I’ve argued here and elsewhere that, for my money, one of the most authentically feminist films of the past 25 years is Winter’s Bone, Debra … Continue reading
There are few modern television series I admire more than Netflix’s Ozark, an urban-to-rural family crime drama whose deep dive into moral decay would make … Continue reading
I spent March on the sofa with The Magicians (Netflix and Syfy). I was anxious, sleeping too much, barely functional — but watching the show let … Continue reading
Local live music returns to Eugene this weekend, in a way, with WOW! What a Stream!, a free two-day live streaming music festival and fundraiser … Continue reading
A ghastly emptiness lies at the center of Deerskin, the latest film by French director Quentin Dupieux. That emptiness signals not fillable blank space but a … Continue reading
It has been a precious commodity for Eugene the past 16 years. Now the Archaeology Channel International Film Festival, Lane County’s longest running film festival, … 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
For weeks, if you’d asked me what I’ve seen and recommended recently, I would’ve had just two answers: the Netflix series Lost in Space, because … Continue reading
We’ve been seeing a lot of this in cinema lately: A young or at least youngish woman, a millennial or cusping thereabouts, intelligent but adrift, … Continue reading
Skateboarding has changed a lot since I was trying to land kickflips and running away from security guards in junior high school. The scene is … Continue reading
Irish humor strikes my ingrained American sensibilities in a strange way, and I like it. Whereas British comedy is mannered even in its absurdity (see … Continue reading
The first few seconds of the Netflix show Tiger King was the first time I had ever heard the name Joe Exotic — which baffled me. … Continue reading
Here we were, a quarantined America more than ready for some form of entertainment. Then, boom! Blindsided by Tiger King — or perhaps it was … Continue reading