Listed as #8 on Time magazine’s list of aspiring nations, the Republic of Cascadia has a legitimate shot at seceding. Three local filmmakers are using their artistic abilities to support the cause and spread the message of the Cascadian revolution. The Cascadia movement officially campaigns for the autonomy of the bioregion commonly referred to as […]
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America, F***, Yeah!
But Zero Dark Thirty Does Inspire My Patriotism
Too soon? Too soon for a kickass political action movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden? It’s been less than two years since a black-ops team of elite American soldiers executed the purported mastermind of 9/11, without any sort of due process, on the sovereign soil of another nation. Or maybe it’s not too […]
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Backcountry, Baby
Film fest shows off the best of the out of bounds
The Bend Backcountry Alliance is hosting the eighth annual Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival at McMenamins this week and you should go. Erik Johnson, who has been a part of the BBA for the past four years, said the seven short films that make up this one-night fest will give audience members the thrill […]
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The Essence of Misery
New Les Mis is Raw
There is no possible way I can even pretend to be objective about this movie. Not that I ever do so, but this is an especially bad case of me being hopelessly—and as far as I’m concerned—wonderfully biased. I love Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s rock opera. And by love I mean adore. I’ve memorized it. I can sing it […]
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The Filmgoers Guide to the 2013 Movie Galaxy
There are heaps of new movies out there. Here’s help.
As we travel into the frontier that is 2013, Hollywood will be riding last year’s wave of excellent films (Lincoln, The Master, Zero Dark Thirty) into the unknown. While a litany of sequels threatens to overwhelm the reels (Anchorman: The Legend Continues anyone?) there are a number of notables beyond the basic piggyback films. Here […]
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The Dude Strikes Again
Tower Theatre to host Coen brothers film festival
If you love The Dude, Marge Gunderson and Harry Pfarrer, pour yourself a white Russian and mark your iCal—three great films from the award-winning Coen brothers are coming the Tower. The Tower Theatre is showing the trio of favorites on three consecutive Fridays starting Jan. 11 as part of its first-ever, Coen Brothers Film Festival. […]
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Identity Theft
Holy Motors‘ dreamlike excursion messes with our minds
Holy Motors is the reason I go to movies. Once in a while I see something this extraordinary that captures everything I want from a flick: surrealism, dreamlike sequences, a “what’s next” attitude, conflict, pathos, smatterings of violence, supremely dark humor, a ton of images to make one ponder the universe along with insanely great […]
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Box Set Bliss
Give them your permission to veg out this Christmas
Bond 50 on Blu-Ray This 50th-anniversary collection comes with 22 of the 23 major Bond films that will keep you “shaken, not stirred.” Relive the glory days of suave Sean Connery and Roger Moore while feeling lustful for Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder and Jane Seymour as Solitaire. Including over 120 hours of bonus features, […]
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Legends Revised
Rise of the Guardians fills
the theater with holiday bliss
Remember the nights when you waited in your bed for the Tooth Fairy to bring you money for your tiny tooth or on the couch by the Christmas tree for Santa Claus to give you awesome presents after stuffing his belly full of cookies and milk. Ah, to be a kid again. Those memories are […]
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Super Text – Killing Them Softly
Killing Them Softly hammers its thematic ideas into the ground
Killing Them Softly—the new crime caper thriller from writer/director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford)—is set in 2008, during the height of the panic over the U.S. financial collapse and the run-up to Barack Obama’s election. I mention this because you might miss that crucial bit of subtext if […]
