Around 30 minutes into Ridley Scott’s new historical epic, “Napoleon,” I realized the sly old genius had completely tricked the studios, audiences and producers about what kind of movie he was making, with possibly only his writer, David Scarpa, and his two lead actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, in on the joke. See, “Napoleon,” […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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Go Ask Alice
Summit Theater Company brings Broadway to Bend
One of the finest musicals of the last few decades is the absolutely stunning “Spring Awakening” with music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics by Steven Sater. The way that show balances heartbreak and bittersweet hope with show-stopping musical numbers is unlike any mainstream Broadway production since “Rent.” I had heard Sheik and Sater’s follow-up musical, […]
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A November to Remember
Giamatti, pilgrims and Disney, oh my
November is always a weird time of the year when it comes to the movies being released in theaters. Studios don’t usually start rolling out the films they think have a good chance to win some Oscars until December and they’re saving the real dumpster fires for January, so November ends up being where they […]
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Mediocre Mercenaries, Murderers and Marvel
Three movies, no memories
When I go to the multiplex to do a double or triple feature, the movies I end up seeing are mostly based on what time everything is playing and if I can string the showings together without too much downtime in between. I’m like a conductor, but with random strangers in dark rooms. Sometimes that […]
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May the Source Be With You: November Edition
Preparing for your winter hibernation
Well, here we are, quickly sinking into another winter when it kinda feels like the last one just ended. I mean, obviously it didn’t; we had like two weeks of fall, after all. Still, I’m not sure that I’m ready for winter again already, so in my own indoor-cat sort of way, I’ll prepare for […]
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DiCaprio and De Niro Destroy a Nation
Scorsese amazes but confounds with "Killers of the Flower Moon"
There’s a moment early on in Martin Scorsese’s new film “Killers of the Flower Moon” where Leonardo DiCaprio’s dumb, lazy and mean Ernest Burkhart is given a book on the Osage people by his uncle, the rich and powerful cattle rancher William King Hale (Robert De Niro). Newly arrived to Osage territory from a failed […]
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Halloween Is A Drag!
So many spooky drag delicacies
to choose from
Options are plentiful this year if you’d like to spend a segment of the spooky season all dolled up at a drag show, because we have three (THREE!) all happening within a few nights of each other. First we have Drag Me to Hell on Friday, Oct. 27 (Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm) from […]
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Spooky Season is Upon Us
Five lesser-known horror gems to ring in the season
Look, I’m a fan of horror movies 365 days a year. The season doesn’t explode into fall overnight and then all of a sudden I want spooky movies and a steady drip of Pumpkin Spice whatever-you-got inside me. Nope. I want it all the time. Not the Pumpkin Spice (although it’s growing on me); just […]
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That’s a Wrap
A look back at the 2023 Bend Film Fest
There’s something impossible to explain about the magic of a film festival, and while watching movies with the artists who made them is part of it, it comes down to the personal moments even more. Every year I say something along the lines of, “Oh, this was by far the best year,” but I can’t […]
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Four Days/100+Movies: Bend Film Festival and You
Choose-Your-Own-Schedule
For the last few years, I’ve been writing a mock schedule in the Source Weekly for the four days of the Bend Film Festival, and how I would circumnavigate the fest if I wasn’t working at the beautiful behemoth. But I’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of writing about what I would be going to […]