I‘m coming in hot to 2021 with a fat stack of movies I expected to see in a theater last year that are instead slowly and without fanfare being dribbled out to Video on Demand and streaming services. The irony is that with the brand-new VoD releases, the studios are trying to recoup as much […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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May the Source Be With You
January’s roundup of podcasts, shows and more
Hello, lovelies. How are we coming with those New Year’s resolutions? Me, neither! In fact, I didn’t make any since I ultimately realized that if I can lose 70 pounds during a pandemic, then I don’t need arbitrary dates on which to tell myself to be a better person. I’m gonna do it year-round and […]
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The Hunt For B-Movie Perfection
”Shadow in the Cloud” is a ridiculous delight
I miss the communal experience of bad movies…maybe more than the communal experience of good ones. So, because I’m me, I went on a hunt for a brand new, January 2021 release on VOD that looked so bad that I might hopefully be able to recapture that lost feeling.
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They Still Release Movies, Don’t They?
Pop culture excitement In 2021
In the first column I write for the Source Weekly every year, I always look ahead to the upcoming months and write about the movies I’m really looking forward to seeing. The problem with this concept right now is two-fold: One, half the movies I wrote about in this space last year still haven’t been […]
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Werewolves and Biscuits and Dancing, Oh My!
Your friendly Central Oregon film reviewer picks his Top 10 things to watch from 2020
This wasn’t a very good year, for humans or for life on Earth in general. There are still a lot of unknowns heading into 2021, and not just when it comes to cinema and movie-going. How did it feel for everyone else, watching movies you know were supposed to open in theaters (like “Soul” and […]
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Rest in Paradise
Celebrating Chadwick Boseman in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
It’s amazing to me that right now we’re living in a time where a movie like “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” can unceremoniously get dropped on Netflix, stay in the top 10 for a week or two and then get shuffled into a back catalogue where only the most industrious of surfers will discover it. In […]
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A Cronenbergian Christmas
I went to the Last Blockbuster to choose something weird. This is what I found.
In celebration of the worldwide DVD/Blu/VOD release of “The Last Blockbuster” this week (written, directed and produced by Bendites Taylor Morden and Zeke Kamm, and with an appearance by yours truly), I decided to make it a Blockbuster night. Nothing streaming was tickling my fancy and I’m literally two blocks away from the last Blockbuster […]
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May the Source Be With You
December Edition: Five Tree Christmas, Happiest Season, Jingle Jangle and more
Hello, lovelies. I’m partially writing this from the emergency room, as I just recently slipped on some ice and ripped open my elbow, so pardon me if I ramble because blood loss and hunger are combining to make me something of a blubbering mess. I gotta tell ya, I’m not feeling the holidays this year. […]
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Poverty Porn
Hillbilly Elegy is an embarrassment
I‘m not naturally inclined to hate a movie. I think cynicism when it comes to sequels, remakes, adaptations and all that kind of stuff is pretty short sighted and meaningless. Ultimately, we can only judge a movie based on its content, not how it’s marketed or what ridiculous board game or toy it’s based on. […]
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Misery Loves Company
Sarah Paulson portrays a sublime new monster
I‘m not sure we as a nation, let alone the entire planet, truly appreciate the utter magnificence of Sarah Paulson. We don’t deserve her, but that’s OK because we’ve never deserved her. She takes every single project she’s a part of and makes it better by grounding her performance in believable human emotions. Her newest […]
