2018 is the Year for Fear
Get good and scared with some of this year’s best horror
2017 churned out some great horror movies — Get Out and the remake of It, to name two — but 2018 is in no way … Continue reading
Film Archive
Manifest Destiny
Sibling rivalry gets writ large in the dark comic Western The Sisters Brothers
What, really, is this thing we call a Western? Outwardly, it’s a movie with horses and six-shooters and cacti and grizzled men and whiskey and … Continue reading
You Can Check Out But You Can Never leave
Mysterious strangers collide in Drew Goddard’s new Bad Times at the El Royale
Bad Times at the El Royale is the multi-talented Drew Goddard’s first film as a director since 2012’s horror delight The Cabin in the Woods … Continue reading
Depth Challenged
Wash Westmoreland’s pretty Colette misses the subtle charm of its complicated subject
It is always sunny in Colette. Wash Westmoreland’s new biopic of the early years of the French author exists in the kind of period-piece world … Continue reading
A Vision for Earth
The Eugene Environmental Film Festival makes its debut at numerous downtown venues
Global in scope, holistic in approach and deeply humane in its engagement with our imperiled planet, the Eugene Environmental Film Festival kicks off its inaugural … Continue reading
Two Agendas
Assassination Nation clever but has mixed messages
Assassination Nation, writer-director Sam Levinson’s bloody, messy commentary on our outrage-fatigued era, can’t commit. The story of four teen girls vilified by the mostly white-male … Continue reading
There Will Be Blood
Nicholas Cage battles the forces of crazy evil in the instant cult classic Mandy
I can’t help but feel there’s a sly political comment hiding in the “44” baseball jersey worn by a bloody Nicholas Cage as he sets … Continue reading
Being One with the Run
Documentary profiles runners in Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race
I once heard that the best way to approach marathon running is to take each mile and dedicate it to someone special in your life. … Continue reading
The Stories We Tell
Madeline’s Madeline takes an immersive, affecting plunge into the life of a confident teenager
At first, Madeline is a cat. Cats sniff things; they curl up in strange places; they pounce; they rub their faces on their people and … Continue reading
Afterbirth of a Nation
A black cop infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in Spike Lee’s powerful new film BlacKkKlansman
The call-out controversy arising between Boots Riley, director of Sorry to Bother You, and director Spike Lee — whose new film, BlacKkKlansman, Riley accuses of … Continue reading