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Southern Discomfortnew
Phillips' atmospheric first novel is full of love and depth, as are her characters.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
03-06-2008 |
Fiction
Strange Transmissionsnew
Bleak and brutal sci-fi horror flick falls flat.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Sorry, Charlienew
Combining elements of Rushmore and Ferris Bueller's Day Off as well as the illicit-entrepreneur plot of Risky Business, Charlie Bartlett suffers greatly by comparison to these films.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Charlie Bartlett, Jon Poll
Lying Lownew
A joke-laden, quirky shoot-out, In Bruges is not.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
Eraserheadnew
Like a runaway satellite or a shaggy transvestite, Be Kind Rewind is a confusion of messages and signals, few of which hit their mark.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Michel Gondry, Be Kind Rewind
Why Aren't Oregon's Schools Protected from Pesticides?new
Parents drove up to Triangle Lake School and found it surrounded by a clearcut. Then they found out a timber company planned to spray pesticides and there's no laws to stop them.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
03-01-2008 |
Environment
A World of His Ownnew
Francis Ford Coppola's first film since The Rainmaker doesn't strike gold.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
02-15-2008 |
Reviews
Snowbirdsnew
A brief history of extreme skiing.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
02-15-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mark Obenhaus, Steep
Food, Not Fadsnew
Michael Pollan takes on food science and the Western diet in his follow-up to The Omnivore's Dilemma
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
02-07-2008 |
Nonfiction
Son of a Gunnew
An oddly soothing, if contradictory, portrait of an artist.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
02-07-2008 |
Reviews
Animated Questionsnew
Persepolis leaps beautifully from page to screen
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
01-31-2008 |
Reviews
Oil and Waternew
Capitalism, meet the Holy Spirit
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
01-31-2008 |
Reviews
Buriednew
An artist's take on locked-in syndrome.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
01-24-2008 |
Reviews
Not Stranger Than Fictionnew
A love for stories alters lives.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
01-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Atonement, Joe Wright
Immaculate Conceptionnew
Sixteen, pregnant and a gift to us all.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
01-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Juno, Jason Reitman