Avatar photo

Jared Rasic

Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.

jaredrasic@yahoo.com
Posted inCulture

Now Our Watch Begins

Winter isn’t coming… it’s already here. Here’s our weekly take on the final season of "Game of Thrones"
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

*SPOILERS AHEAD* It’s only been 595 days (or 14,280 hours if you’re counting) since we last visited Westeros, but who’s counting? We’re entering into the eighth and final season of the bleakest show ever to capture the popular zeitgeist and this premiere is bringing everything round full circle. “Winterfell” is the calm before the storm […]

Posted inCulture

Sometimes Dead is Better

Pet Sematary Digs Up Some New Terrors
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

Everyone knows horror legend and icon Stephen King can craft a tale so chilling it lingers in the collective consciousness with the staying power of urban legend. But those who write him off as nothing but a master of schlock are missing out on his equally expert grasp of character and normalcy. It isn’t the […]

Posted inCulture

May the Source Be with You

April edition
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

We’re a quarter of the way through the year already?! That doesn’t seem right. It feels like just yesterday that I made a New Year’s resolution to stop shame-eating entire DiGiorno pizzas while crying through old episodes of “Golden Girls.” Well, maybe next year. Instead, I think I’ll put my effort into finding awesome and […]

Posted inCulture

Hands Across America

Jordan Peele’s “Us” is a Social Nightmare
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

If there is an “us,” that means there’s also a “them.” No matter how close we are to our “us,” whether it’s our family, our friends or our country, there is always an “other” into which we can place our blame, fear and hate. The other race, the other culture, the other tax bracket. Muslim, […]

Posted inCulture

Panic at the Disco

“Climax” offers free anxiety with ticket price
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

How uncomfortable do you like being? Like, on a scale that starts with your exes becoming lovers, to a slow-motion car accident where everyone is making eye contact with you? That’s this movie. A 90-minute crash in which you see the accident up ahead, you know it’s coming and are absolutely powerless to stop it. […]

Posted inCulture

Marvel’s Top Gun

Popcorn movie of the year, with extra corn
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

If you’re anything like me and grew up loving cinema, movie night was the best night of the week. You’d go to the dinky little pre-IMAX theater with sticky floors and weird smells, get your buttery snacks, and for the next two hours you’d be transported to another world. And if it was a good […]

Posted inCulture

May the Source Be with You

March Edition
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

I dunno. I’ve realized (pretty quickly) since I moved to Bend in the fall of 1999 that I’m an indoor kid. Snowpocalypses are just not my thing. I like warm fires and melted cheeses and chocolates and don’t need to freeze first to enjoy them. This winter I’ve decided not to tussle with Jack Frost. Instead, […]

Posted inCulture

AcaDummy Awards

The Oscars miss the point
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

The Oscars were weird this year. I mean, they’re always baffling for at least a few minutes, but this year seemed especially frontloaded with the strangeness. There were several deserving winners, but there were also such terrible choices as to completely cheapen what came before. Here are a few of the good, the bad and […]

Posted inCulture

Welcome to the Machine

Alita prays audiences want a sequel
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

This has to stop. “Alita: Battle Angel” is the second theatrical film I’ve seen this year that does something that a decade ago would have been unthinkable. “Alita” is about a cyborg with a human brain that teams up with a doctor of cybernetics and a boy she has a crush on to make their […]

Posted inCulture

May the Source Be With You

February edition
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

Ahhh, February. The month in which folks in relationships remind me how blissfully happy they are on Instagram, while my mom reminds me that there’s still someone special out there for me by once again being the only one to send me a Valentine. I also try to celebrate February’s Black History Month by focusing […]

Sign up for newsletters

Get the best of The Source - Bend, Oregon directly in your email inbox.

Sending to:

Gift this article