The Meyer Memorial Trust has given the Southern Oregon Film Society, which operates the Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF) the $25,000 Grassroots Grant to support operating expenses associated with the Festival. The Meyer Memorial Trust has given AIFF funding twice…
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“Doctor Who” Celebrates 50 Years of Entertainment
For 50 years, Doctor Who has delighted fans, creating one of the largest television fan bases in history. At its beginning as a 5 part serial, the show was low budget and experimental, but the story of Doctor Who is…
Review: “Our Town” is Simple, Classic, Good
You can’t put on a production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town without acknowledging – or at least knowing – that it’s a theatrical classic. Director Paul Barnes certainly must be well acquainted with that fact. His production of Our Town…
Review: “12 Years a Slave” The Reality of Stolen Freedoms
12 Years follows the miraculous true story of Solomon Northup, a free man who was wrongfully sold into slavery for 12 years and then freed. From the beginning, this film makes it clear that it is about slavery. It’s about…
Review: “Killing Kennedy” is Powerful History
Based on Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s best seller comes this powerful thriller starring Rob Lowe and Ginnifer Goodwin (Once Upon A Time’s Snow White). The film follows John F. Kennedy rising to become the U.S. president, and Lee Harvey…
Review: “Ender’s Game” Isn’t a Bad Adaptation
Gavin Hood, director of the recent X-Men Origins: Wolverine does what is probably fair to say his best work so far in Ender’s Game. You can tell, watching the film, that he’s familiar with not only the simple text of…
“Our Town” Filled With Opportunities for Students
Southern Oregon University has the great pleasure of hosting Our Town in the Center Stage Theater. The play will be showing from Nov. 14 until Nov. 16 and once again on Nov. 23 and 24. This will be one of…
Review: “Thor 2” is Really Really Cool
With even more hilarious quips and eerie villains, Thor: The Dark World is a terrific follow up to the original film. There’s still enough action to intensify, enough mythology to entertain, enough romance to intrigue, and enough of the hammer-toting…
“Enemy Within” Looks to be a Breath of Fresh Air
A remake of the 1994 game UFO: Enemy Unknown/X-COM: UFO Defense , X-COM: Enemy Unknown took critics and fans by storm, receiving over 20 awards at E3 2012. With a smart mix of action and strategy, it restarted the heartbeat…
Review: “Captain Phillips” Blows Competition Out of the Water
Without a doubt this is the best movie that I have seen this year. Captain Phillips will take you through a roller coaster of emotions throughout the entire movie. Captain Phillips (directed by Paul Greengrass) focuses on merchant mariner Captain…