There’s a weird contradiction sometimes when it comes to the holiday season, especially around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Obviously, the importance of the holidays is to connect or reconnect with friends and family, and tradition says it usually involves some sort of massive home-cooked meal. Simultaneously, 2021 was a hell of a nasty year, maybe a […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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Six Reviews for the Price of One
A theatrical roundup
I want to talk about every single movie that comes out with you all, but there’s just not enough time or space to get into each one. Unless…I just go see everything I possibly can in a week and then jam them all together in one giant review like a weird cinematic chimera and just […]
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So Long and Hanks For all the Finch
“Finch” is a heartwarming sci-fi parable
We now live in a world where there are so many streaming services that even giant-ass blockbusters that a few years ago would be taking up 10 screens at the local multiplex are now unceremoniously dumped online with no fanfare. Cinema is now mostly just a never-ending trickle of content across a dozen or so […]
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May the Source Be with You
November’s edition of podcasts and shows
Ahhhh, November. The month where we stare out the window at the cold foggy mornings as we sip $16-a-pound coffee while playing Evanescence so loudly the neighbors call the police again. No? That’s just me, huh? I don’t believe you, but I accept your judgement willingly. November is the month where my Seasonal Affective Disorder […]
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Baby, You Can Drive My Car
"Titane" stuns, disturbs and warms the heart
Listen, I’m about to very briefly explain the plot of a movie, and some of you are going to immediately decide never to see it. Some are going to be stoked because it sounds exactly like your specific brand of weird, and maybe the rest will come to the conclusion that I don’t see a […]
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Regal Roundup
Four mini movie reviews for the price of one
Sometimes the movies I end up seeing at the theater are just a product of what time they’re playing over whether they’re a film I really want to see in the first place. The theater is still a bit of a spontaneous decision for me, so sometimes I will just catch whatever is showing right […]
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Still Scary After All These Years
Post-Halloween spooky recommendations
I am what you might call a daredevil. Sometimes I remove the tags from mattresses. I may have jaywalked. I wear brown all year. And, this is a thing that’s possible, I watch horror movies all year round, not just in October. A scary movie watched in October is actually just as scary if you watch […]
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The Mystery of Life isn’t a Problem to Solve, But a Reality to Experience
"Dune" is the spice of life
What is it that you actually want from movies? Do you want to be transported to places, cultures and worlds you’ve never experienced before? Do you like the simplicity of just being told a story? Are films another form of art to you that you love deconstructing and searching inside for the hidden meanings and […]
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The Boogeyman is Real
Michael Myers comes home in ‘Halloween Kills’
My older brother got me into horror movies—not as a thing we could share and enjoy with each other, but as a defense mechanism that helped harden us to the crappy childhood we were sharing together. He needed horror like a fish needs water and would spend most of his paychecks ordering accurate and limited-edition […]
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May the Source Be With You
October’s edition of podcasts, streaming and more
I have two very important questions for you all: 1) How has this last month been? and 2) Is “Squid Game” the biggest Netflix original series since “Tiger King?” I hope the answer to the first question is “Better every day,” and I’m sure the answer to the second is “Obviously, nerd. People like things with […]