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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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 […]
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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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Zed’s Dead, Baby
The World War Z that could've been
Books and film are different mediums; what works in one rarely works in the other. Still, it’s hard to read "World War Z" by Max Brooks—Chronicler of the Undead, Son of Mel—and not see how a film version could’ve worked. Subtitled “An Oral History of the Zombie War,” Brooks’ post-apocalyptic survey profiles the war-weary survivors […]
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What Do We Want? Brains!
When do we want them? Brains!
On the coattails of the release of what could be the biggest budget Hollywood-saturated zombie flick of all time (who better than a scruffy Brad Pitt to solve the world’s infectious crisis?), and the unbridled success of AMC’s zombie-centric drama-filled “The Walking Dead,” here are a few lighter love letters to zombies, each equally filled […]
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Movies You Could Eat!
Not your popcorn’s average film
Minnie Driver has hovered at the edges of fame, never quite an A-lister and only rarely earning the dubious distinction of a movie star with enough power to grace the tabloid covers. She did win a few awards for a British TV series (“The Deep”) recently, but really, why even talk about recent projects? Had […]
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More Human than Human
With Monsters University,
Pixar goes to college
“Where’s the girl?” I’d taken my 5-year-old with me to see Monsters University—this year’s winsome prequel to Pixar’s 2001 Monsters, Inc.—and though he claimed he “liked all of it,” clearly he did not, in fact, like “all of it.” He missed the character every kid watching the first Monsters movie was supposed to identify with: […]
