The common refrain is that investigative journalism is a dying industry; that the time and painstakingly meticulous detective work necessary to uncover politicians’ dark secrets are rare commodities in today’s rush-rush media world as Remington typewriters. But Jeremy Scahill, the national security correspondent for The Nation, gives hope that the likes of Nellie Bly, Bob […]
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A Day in the Life
Fruitvale Station tells an eerily familiar story
Fruitvale Station starts with an ending. In cell phone footage, all shrieks and shaking, we see the final moments of Oscar Grant—a 22-year-old black man from Oakland who became, long before we mourned for a boy named Trayvon Martin, a symbol of society’s profound struggles with race, police brutality, and privilege. It is a few […]
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Swayze Summer Continues!
The Outsiders Introduces a new class of actors
In 1982, Francis Ford Coppola had just wrapped up the first—and most important—decade of his career. He bounded through the Godfather trilogy and, in 1979, earned his third Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for the era-defining Apocalypse Now, a movie in which a brooding Martin Sheen serves as the main vehicle for a […]
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Glory Days…Still
Forty years later, Springsteen and I proves The Boss is still loved by EVERYONE
Bruce Springsteen knows a thing or two about America. From a shotgun shack to the Superdome, he embodies the American Dream through cinematic lyrics that say more in one line than most musicians say, well, ever. Springsteen is a cold light beer at the end of a long day of manual labor. His music rings […]
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Great From Any Angle
Finally! A non-rom-com about a woman
Frances Ha is a perfectly simple, straightforward little film, but there's an awful lot to say about it. Whichever way you turn the movie, it catches some light: This way, the plight of millennials; that way, the stylistic nods to French New Wave. There’s a whole trend piece to be written about the young female […]
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Destroy All Monsters
Oh, Shit! It’s Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim!
“The audience needs to be invested in the difference between what you’re doing and something generic, and I would argue that most of the audience don’t know the difference between someone who I consider to be making ‘cinema’ and someone who’s not,” Steven Soderbergh recently told Empire, explaining his reasons for quitting directing. “That shit—that […]
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Swayze Summer!
Two hot months of Patrick Swayze
People‘s sexiest man alive (circa 1991), enviable dance skills, the ability to make women want him and men want to be him and, oh man, dat ass. The Source has created a summer film series to honor the work of one of our favorite late, great actors, Patrick Swayze (swoon)! Let us refresh you on […]
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Hugo, We Go, Don’t Let the Pine Go!
Switch to digital film threatens
local movie theater
There is something ironic in this fact that both Facebook and Apple, two of the largest motivators for 21st century technology, moved massive data centers into Prineville and gave a much-needed shot in the arm to the local economy, but the local movie theater, The Pine, a community hub for 75 years, is potentially shutting […]
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Behind the Mask
The Lone Ranger is a fiasco
The parallels to Superman are uncanny: The Lone Ranger was created in the 1930s as a new kind of American hero—a fighter for all that is right and just in the world. He is a bit of a square, a bit of an anachronism, and after lapsing into irrelevance for decades, he has been rebooted […]
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Punch Drunk Love
Much Ado About Nothing is better than liquid lunch
In the first season of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” in an episode called “Never Kill a Boy on the First Date,” Buffy—a 5-foot-nothing cheerleader/superhero tasked with killing the world’s scourge of vampires without chipping her nail polish—skips out of her school library to fight a horde of martial arts proficient monsters. Before she exits she […]
