Listen, I’m about to very briefly explain the plot of a movie, and some of you are going to immediately decide never to see it. Some are going to be stoked because it sounds exactly like your specific brand of weird, and maybe the rest will come to the conclusion that I don’t see a […]
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Regal Roundup
Four mini movie reviews for the price of one
Sometimes the movies I end up seeing at the theater are just a product of what time they’re playing over whether they’re a film I really want to see in the first place. The theater is still a bit of a spontaneous decision for me, so sometimes I will just catch whatever is showing right […]
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Still Scary After All These Years
Post-Halloween spooky recommendations
I am what you might call a daredevil. Sometimes I remove the tags from mattresses. I may have jaywalked. I wear brown all year. And, this is a thing that’s possible, I watch horror movies all year round, not just in October. A scary movie watched in October is actually just as scary if you watch […]
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The Mystery of Life isn’t a Problem to Solve, But a Reality to Experience
"Dune" is the spice of life
What is it that you actually want from movies? Do you want to be transported to places, cultures and worlds you’ve never experienced before? Do you like the simplicity of just being told a story? Are films another form of art to you that you love deconstructing and searching inside for the hidden meanings and […]
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The Boogeyman is Real
Michael Myers comes home in ‘Halloween Kills’
My older brother got me into horror movies—not as a thing we could share and enjoy with each other, but as a defense mechanism that helped harden us to the crappy childhood we were sharing together. He needed horror like a fish needs water and would spend most of his paychecks ordering accurate and limited-edition […]
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May the Source Be With You
October’s edition of podcasts, streaming and more
I have two very important questions for you all: 1) How has this last month been? and 2) Is “Squid Game” the biggest Netflix original series since “Tiger King?” I hope the answer to the first question is “Better every day,” and I’m sure the answer to the second is “Obviously, nerd. People like things with […]
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So Many Movies, So Much Time
BendFilm goes in-person and virtual
Normally, for the issue of the Source Weekly right before BendFilm Festival starts, I make a mock schedule of how to catch all of my personal favorite things playing across the days so you can maximize your time there. This year, however, since the festival is a hybrid of in-person and virtual, this article won’t […]
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Three in the Spotlight
BendFilm returns stronger than ever
It’s amazing to me that another year has passed and we’re already on the cusp of BendFilm festival again. For a year of such hardship and difficulty, it went by alarmingly fast. In the interest of keeping people safe, this year’s fest will be a hybrid of in-person and virtual, so there are several options […]
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Cowboy Up
Eastwood cries macho
What does masculinity even mean anymore in 2021? I think the term “be a man” means something much different to our sons than it did to our fathers and grandfathers, who lived in a society much more preoccupied with the appearance of manliness and attempting to desperately fulfill gender constructs than we are in this […]
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Insane in the Membrane
"Malignant" will grow on you
I shouldn’t recommend this movie to you, but I have to do it. It’s too insane not to be a part of your life. Co-writer/director James Wan has made a movie so completely bonkers that I’m not sure there’s ever been anything like it before and there certainly won’t be anyone trying to rip it off. […]