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No question Steven Spielberg is a great director. Several times during The Post, Spielberg’s new movie about The Washington Post’s decision in 1971 to publish … Continue reading
I, Tonya is a strange beast. Craig Gillespie’s new film is often painfully accurate in its visual depiction of poverty, but apt to put a … Continue reading
In this week’s episode of What’s Happening, host Meerah Powell talks with Eugene Weekly staffers and freelancers about their favorite music, movies, theater and news events from the last year. We catch up with EW freelancer Will Kennedy who muses about local bands like VCR, Nudie Mags and Pancho + The Factory. We hear EW news reporters Corinne Boyer and Kelly Kenoyer chat about their favorite stories they got to report on ranging from a long-term investigation on retirement homes in the state to visiting a chimp sanctuary and finally, EW senior staff writer Rick Levin talks about his favorite 2017 films and plays, as well as some of his Oscar nomination predictions. Make sure to grab a print issue of Eugene Weekly in its little red boxes every Thursday or check us out online at EugeneWeekly.com.
In what has already proven something of a banner year for movies, writer/director Guillermo del Toro plunges in just under the wire with what is … Continue reading
Within hours of The Last Jedi’s release, a lot of internet discourse about the film turned hostile. If you loved the movie, you were a … Continue reading
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