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. […]
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May the Source Be With You
September Edition
The air is filled with smoke, summer is almost over and there are more people in the local hospital with COVID than ever before, but at least we’re not all still arguing about masks anymore. Wait, that’s still a thing too? OK, so maybe we’ve taken a few years’ long detour into the darkest timeline, […]
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The Sunken City
"Reminiscence" only reminds us of better movies
Is there a word for when every element of a movie on its own seems like it should work but, when taken as a whole, the elements make for an experience that is hugely underwhelming and crappy? “Craptacular” is too dismissive and “Ridumbculous” doesn’t really get the point across, so I’m going to go with […]
