It’s that time of the week again – where you start to ask yourself, “what am I going to do this weekend?” Sometimes our brains don’t have enough power left to even begin to think about making plans. Well, that’s where we come in. Here’s a bit of what’s going on the next few days […]
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Weekend Warrior – Feb 15-17
A little theater, film and music action
It’s that time again – where you start to ask yourself “what am I going to do this weekend?” Sometimes our brains don’t have enough power left to even begin to think about making plans. Well, that’s where we come in. Here’s a bit of what’s going on the next few days that can help […]
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Almost Practically Perfect in Every Way
In a world where new movies are just sequels and book adaptations, Mary Poppins Returns is… both?
In a world where new movies are just sequels and book adaptations, Mary Poppins Returns is… both? The fun loving, magical somewhat of a narcissistic nanny, Mary Poppins, takes flight again in “Mary Poppins Returns.” Mary, played by Emily Blunt, yet again comes to the Banks house to help an overworked father find the importance […]
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Tonight! The First Oregon-only Backcountry Snowboarding Film
Tower Theatre hosts “Low Pressure,” featuring stellar local athletes
It’s no secret that Central Oregon has more than its fair share of stellar athletes in many sporting categories—including a host of awesome snowboarders who live for nothing more than a steady diet of fresh powder in the backcountry. Some of those athletes will be on display in the new all-Oregon backcountry snowboard film—the first […]
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Limitless
“You Were Never Really Here” is a towering achievement
“You Were Never Really Here” exists in several states of oxymoronic extremes. Quiet brutality. Serene frenzy. Intense peace. Personal enigmas. Joe is a combat veteran suffering from PTSD and a sense of duty to missing and trafficked children—a hired gun rescuing missing kids and dispatching the slavers in a brutal and unflinching fashion. Joe doesn’t […]
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Stupid Troopers
Hope you like Canada jokes, eh?
Watching “Super Troopers 2” made me feel crazy—as if everything I’d ever thought about film was thrown under the bus and proven to be nothing more than the insane fecal scribblings of a madman layering the walls of his padded cell. As the sold-out auditorium laughed at almost everything, I looked at my best friend […]
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Hush
“A Quiet Place” will get you
I wasn’t really looking forward to seeing “A Quiet Place” in the theater. Don’t get me wrong, I was hyped for it, but it seems like for half the movies, the theaters are half-full with people treating the experience like they’re in their living rooms… answering a ringing phone, carrying on conversations or loudly reacting to […]
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Game On
“Ready Player One” is a burst of pop culture nostalgia
My name is Jared Rasic and I’ve been collecting comic books and movies since 1986. I was beaten up in Catholic school and relentlessly mocked in public school for being a fat geek who should put down the books and pick up a basketball. Over the last decade, geek culture left the basement and became […]
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Political Animals
Sometimes all you can do is laugh
“The Death of Stalin” may well be the hardest you will ever laugh at mass murder. I know that sounds wrong, but go with me for a minute. By taking the death of the brutal autocrat and then crafting a timely political satire around it, filmmaker Armando Iannucci once again manages to create belly laughs […]
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PewPewPew
Robots vs. monsters means we all win
I‘m a simple man, but I take pleasure in some very specific cinematic delights. I love giant, Godzilla-esque kaiju monsters. I also love several-hundred-feet-tall, mech-suited robots. So back when visionary director Guillermo del Toro announced he was making a movie about huge alien sea monsters entering our world through an inter-dimensional portal on the bottom […]
