Film

This is the time of year my mildly OCD self starts making several Best Of the Year lists: One for movies, one for shows, one for music and one for books. I know that I consume more media than the average human person, but technically, it’s my job, so I don’t really feel that bad […]

Around 30 minutes into Ridley Scott’s new historical epic, “Napoleon,” I realized the sly old genius had completely tricked the studios, audiences and producers about what kind of movie he was making, with possibly only his writer, David Scarpa, and his two lead actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, in on the joke. See, “Napoleon,” […]

November is always a weird time of the year when it comes to the movies being released in theaters. Studios don’t usually start rolling out the films they think have a good chance to win some Oscars until December and they’re saving the real dumpster fires for January, so November ends up being where they […]

When I go to the multiplex to do a double or triple feature, the movies I end up seeing are mostly based on what time everything is playing and if I can string the showings together without too much downtime in between. I’m like a conductor, but with random strangers in dark rooms. Sometimes that […]

Well, here we are, quickly sinking into another winter when it kinda feels like the last one just ended. I mean, obviously it didn’t; we had like two weeks of fall, after all. Still, I’m not sure that I’m ready for winter again already, so in my own indoor-cat sort of way, I’ll prepare for […]

There’s a moment early on in Martin Scorsese’s new film “Killers of the Flower Moon” where Leonardo DiCaprio’s dumb, lazy and mean Ernest Burkhart is given a book on the Osage people by his uncle, the rich and powerful cattle rancher William King Hale (Robert De Niro). Newly arrived to Osage territory from a failed […]

For the last few years, I’ve been writing a mock schedule in the Source Weekly for the four days of the Bend Film Festival, and how I would circumnavigate the fest if I wasn’t working at the beautiful behemoth. But I’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of writing about what I would be going to […]