Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
I was born in 1980 at the Feather River Hospital in Paradise, California. My family had lived there since 1964 when my contractor grandfather built the Foster’s Freeze and many other businesses across town. When I was eight, my grandma had me carve my name in wet cement in Paradise’s beautiful Bille Park, a transgression I […]
The most meta moment of my life happened this past weekend, and it was amazing. I went to the world premiere of “The Last Blockbuster,” a movie that I’m in, about a dying form of entertainment, shown at a pop-up drive-in movie theater, which is in itself a dead form of entertainment, during a global […]
Some of the most defining moments of my life took place at the local drive-in near where I went to high school in Grants Pass, Oregon. Sitting in the bed of a filthy pick-up truck watching Jodie Foster’s “Contact” is where I had my first beer and kiss, within about five minutes of each other. […]
As we pass the halfway point of any given year, it’s always nice to look back at all the pop-cultural shenanigans from the first few months just to see how the year is shaping up artistically. With movie theaters closing, new books going straight to digital and all television shows halting production months ago, 2020 […]
Hey everybody! Remember that time we were in the middle of a pandemic and it got politicized but instead of our president trying to bridge the gap between us, he gave a speech at Mt. Rushmore comparing Black Lives Matter protesters to fascists and Nazis? Me, too. I’m super ready to wake up now. Once […]
A few weeks ago, I was afraid the magic of the theatrical experience had died for me. I went to the lovely Odem Theater Pub to see a movie and I completely failed to get caught up and swept away by the experience like I normally do. Odem is a wonderful space, so I thought just […]
The older I get, the more I need to feel something from the movies I watch. Don’t get me wrong, I still love a good disposable comedy or an almost instantly forgettable horror flick, but it’s comforting to feel like the two hours you gave a movie was reciprocated somehow. Like your time was taken […]
At 156 minutes, “Da 5 Bloods” is messy, frenzied, vital and astoundingly timely. He draws a perfectly straight line from the Vietnam of the 1970s to the Black Lives Matter movement of today and releases a howl of frustration, pain and rage throughout every second of the film’s runtime.
Hello you magnificent Oregonians and welcome to another entry into the May the Source Be With You canon, where I share some of the pop cultural things that are keeping me going as of late. We seem to be stuck in the middle of an episode of “Black Mirror” where everyone on Earth is trapped […]
In January, I made plans with a lady friend to go on a little mini-vacation. We reserved three nights in May at McMenamin’s Crystal Hotel in Downtown Portland and got tickets to see Girl Talk at the Crystal Ballroom. We would have checked out the Rose Festival, spent an entire day in record stores and […]
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