I think maybe I’m selfish when it comes to what I choose to write about every week. I know more people would read my stuff if I wrote about whatever the most popular thing in the moment is, but, like Spider-Man said, with moderate power comes a modicum of responsibility. I have a wonderful audience, and […]
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
November Edition
Hello, all. Anything interesting happen since last we talked? That’s right—a presidential election where my wildest dreams came true. I’m trying to be chill and avoid gloating, but it’s hard to be kind toward a campaign whose advertising vacillated between “Fu** Your Feelings” and “Make Liberals Cry Again.” Wait, did Giuliani just hold a press […]
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Revolutionary Films
You say you want a revolution? Here are some films focused on
ones real and imagined
Every November 5, for Guy Fawkes day (or for, you know, an intense U.S. election) I start feeling a little wily and dream about starting a revolution. Not like a violent one or even one that involves transfers of power or me taking office of some kind, but a revolution centered around free pancakes for […]
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Spookies
Ideas For a Mellow Halloween
Not to be a downer, but a lot of people are gonna get that ‘rona on Halloween. Bars will be packed, booze will be plentiful and good choices will be few and far between, so if you don’t feel like playing around with all that, I’ve made you a list of spookies you can check […]
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The Lovely Ghosts
Grief is a spirit in "The Haunting of Bly Manor"
Ultimately, every love story is also a ghost story. At some point or another, one person loses the other and then all that’s left are memories and empty rooms; a never-ending ellipsis sprawling out into the future like an unfinished sentence. “The Haunting of Bly Manor” is a nine-hour-long mini-series that combines love, death and […]
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October Edition
This time last month I wasn’t very stoked on the world. The air was an impenetrable wall of smoke, COVID-19 was more politicized than ever and it just seemed like humans were drifting further and further away from each other into a lonelier, angrier and more solitary place. I am here to gladly announce that […]
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BendFilm: Make Your Own Schedule
Bend’s local film critic offers his choices from this year’s Fest
This might be completely selfish of me, but I’m pretty glad BendFilm Festival is virtual this year. For one, I’m happy that festival Executive Director Todd Looby and company are doing everything they can to keep us film nerds safe and, two, because I’ve been sick for the last two weeks and I’m lucky that […]
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BendFilm Festival Returns
This time, your living room is a venue
There’s something ultimately pretty amazing about the resiliency of the human spirit when it comes to what we’re capable of normalizing. If you would have told me back in March that the 17th Annual BendFilm Festival would be virtual, I wouldn’t have believed you, but that the fest is a virtual AND drive-in hybrid sounds […]
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Technocracy Now
Unpacking "The Social Dilemma"
There’s a lot to unpack in Jeff (“Chasing Ice”) Orlowski’s new documentary, “The Social Dilemma”—the least of which is whether any of its sobering and lucid information is going to reach the people that need to hear it the most. On the film’s most basic level, it focuses on different tech experts from Google, Facebook, […]
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May the Source Be With You
September Edition: Were we all raised by wolves?
For last month’s column of May the Source Be With You, I talked about my anxiety connected to the world being on fire… several weeks before the air had the quality of actually living inside of a camp fire. I was trying to be metaphorical, not to predict the future. It’s pretty disturbing because for […]
