Look, I went into this weekend fully intending to go see “Red One,” that new movie where The Rock, Chris Evans and a polar bear have to rescue a kidnapped (and completely jacked) Santa Claus, but then I realized that, ultimately, that movie is probably as critic proof as it possibly gets. You don’t need […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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Robots, Smiles, Heretics and Last Dances
A November theatrical roundup
This weekend I caught four movies in a row at the theater and now my entire brain feels funny. Here’s what I saw: The Wild Robot: At the bookstore I work at, we’re constantly selling copies of the 2016 novel by Peter Brown to kids so excited to read it that they’re bursting to get […]
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May the Source Be With You: November Edition
Fighting SAD with cozy vibes
For one such as me, who doesn’t partake in any winter activities other than drinking hot toddies and making the occasional snow angel, I mostly spend the cold months binging podcasts, movies and shows I missed in the summer. I know, I’m boring as hell, but ending up headfirst in a tree well is a […]
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Bend, By Way of Belgium
Monkless Brasserie is a singular experience
I feel like I’m always sleeping on Monkless. From the panoramic view to the consistently fantastic beer and the deep bench of flavors on a food menu filled with dishes that are rare to find in Bend, Monkless has always followed its own muse, still innovating at a time when a lot of breweries are content […]
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Creepshows
Ten underrated horror flicks for the spooky season
A majority of the movies that get made are horror movies for two main reasons: 1) With some imagination and a solid team you can make one on a very limited budget and 2) There’s such a large built-in fanbase starving for new horror that even hot garbage usually makes a little money. They’re the safest […]
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No Matter Where You Go
Saoirse Ronan stuns in “The Outrun”
I think most of us know the feeling of either loving an alcoholic or being one. I’ve been in a relationship with someone struggling with alcoholism and will never forget the gut-churning fear of watching the person that put fire to my blood, subtly shift into an unrecognizable other that made being in public a nerve-wracking […]
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The Joke’s On Us
"Joker: Folie à Deux" is a half-formed idea in search of a movie
Look, from the jump I’m going to say that “Joker: Folie à Deux” is both a little better than most people say, while somehow being worse in a lot of ways I wasn’t prepared for. But, and this might be a hot take, so I guess you can take my opinion with a bucket of […]
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The Bend Film Festival Primer
How to build a schedule, one movie at a time
The hardest thing about attending a film festival is building the schedule. It’s a terrible feeling spending all that time and money to catch a bunch of films across three or four days of a fest and then find out that you missed all the ones garnering the most buzz. FOMO hits hard when everyone […]
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Birria, Boba, Bowls, Burgers and More
Redmond boasts a booming food cart scene
So many food carts in Central Oregon and so little time to try them all. We at the Source Weekly spend so much time writing about the Bend food scene that we sometimes forget to check in on what is a thriving and vibrant culinary town filled with a robust depth of regional and cultural […]
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Comfort. Food.
What’s your perfect local dish?
The perfect dish. Not a dish that is flawlessly constructed or stunningly plated (although that can be part of it), but the meal that your mind instantly goes to when you decide you don’t wanna cook dinner and need your favorite comfort meal. In that moment, nothing else will do. Someone else might not care […]