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“The Grand Coulee Dam murdered my tribe’s history. Murdered the history of all the Upper Columbia and Spokane tribes. Murdered my tribe’s relationship with its deity and murdered our relationship with our futures. For us, the Grand Coulee Dam is an epic gravestone and we Salish people have been mourning the death of our wild […]
In the United States. we love our heroes almost as much as we love to watch them fall from grace. As a country, we exist in this feedback loop—a perpetual state of “What have you done for me lately,” expecting our celebrities to entertain us while also giving us plenty of fuel with which to […]
Here we are, smack dab in the middle of winter—a time when many people are snapping on their bindings and winter gear to ski, snowboard or snowshoe. Meanwhile, others look for warmer and less-physical ways to break our legs. High stakes poker with the Russian mob, perhaps? Based on the trippingly-titled memoir, “Molly’s Game: From […]
Surprisingly, last year turned out to be the best year for films in recent memory. From lovingly crafted indies such as “Lady Bird” to the challenging and eye-popping spectacle of “War for the Planet of the Apes” — 2017 gave us some all-timers. Obviously, it’s too soon to tell whether 2018 will be just as […]
This is the hardest it has ever been for me to come up with a Top 10 Films list. The year 2017 will be remembered as the finest year for cinema of the new century (alongside 2007, which brought us “There Will Be Blood,” “No Country for Old Men” and “Zodiac,” among others). This year […]
This week in a very special May the Source Be With You, we’re sharing some of our favorite things over the past year. It’s December. We make lists in December. It’s just how it goes. In Pod We Trust: There are so many podcasts now that’s it’s genuinely impossible to listen to them all. I […]
Audiences are going to hate “The Last Jedi” because of “The Force Awakens.” Even though “TFA” gave us interesting new characters including Rey, Finn, Kylo and Poe, it was still designed specifically (and expertly) around capturing an audience’s nostalgia. The story for “TFA” was so similar to “A New Hope” that it almost plays as […]
I met Nicolas Mezzanatto through a mutual friend. He had just moved to Bend and was looking for someone to write movies with. We struck up an instant partnership that’s been one of the best working relationships of my life. While we were writing together, he would periodically update me on another project he was […]
There’s this word that I love which I never use because when I do I sound like a pretentious ass. The word is schadenfreude, which basically means taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune. Unless you’re a full-blown sociopath, schadenfreude comes when witnessing someone who has either wronged you or someone you care about “getting what […]
I am not what you would call an unbiased observer when it comes to the work of Martin McDonagh. He’s responsible for my favorite play ever written, “The Pillowman,” which I’ve driven several hours to see performed live and also directed locally. I’ve seen his show “A Behanding in Spokane,” on Broadway during its original […]
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