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In Lady Bird, her directorial debut, Greta Gerwig looks at familiar moments of teen dramedy — parental spats, ill-chosen crushes, disagreements with friends, a chafing … Continue reading
Take just about any film — Casablanca perhaps, or Fast Times at Ridgemont High — utterly drain it of emotion and affect, and you’d end … Continue reading
In the lineup of Marvel movies, Thor: Ragnarok deserves a lot of superlatives. Best, funniest, most comic-booky; prettiest, smartest, most sincere. In the same movie, … Continue reading
There’s one scene in particular that perfectly captures the generous, heartbreaking humanity animating The Florida Project, director Sean Baker’s tragicomic ode to the tattered residents … Continue reading
“And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,” Nietzsche wrote, “the abyss also gazes into you.” This, for me, perfectly describes the face of … Continue reading
Meerah Powell’s Picks REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000) Just because Darren Aronofsky’s 2000 film, based on a novel by Hubert Selby Jr., isn’t explicitly a … Continue reading
Eugene Weekly staffers Meerah Powell and Rick Levin discuss some of their favorite horror films throughout the eras in this spooky Halloween bonus episode of What’s Happening. Don’t know what you should be watching this All Hallows’ Eve? We’ve got you covered. So get some popcorn popping, light some candles (and your jack-o’-lantern), cuddle up on the couch with a blanket and get scared. For even more Halloween-y movies, check out the Halloween issue of Eugene Weekly out in our red boxes on Oct. 26, 2017, or online always at EugeneWeekly.com.
In Ambrose Bierce’s classic story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” a plantation owner in the Civil War is hanged from a bridge. Between the … Continue reading
Will we reach a moment in time when the real world looks more science-fictional than movies? Or does it already? Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, released … Continue reading
This Flatliners remake is truly mystifying. What called for a new version of the 1990 Julia Roberts/Kiefer Sutherland/Kevin Bacon thriller now? (Or ever, for that … Continue reading