The Wandering Reel Traveling Film Festival returns to Manzanita Friday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m., with a collection of seven short international and U.S. films at the Hoffman Center for the Arts….
Category: Movie Reviews
Drew’s Reviews: JOKER
By Andrew Jenck I guess I’m supposed to start out this review by commenting on how oversaturated the Hollywood landscape is by comic book adaptions, and lead into how Joker is a…
Drew’s Reviews- Spider-Tember: Justifying the Medium
By Andrew Jenck This is Part 1 of a miniseries discussing different elements of the 2018 film Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse. Spider-Verse’s animation has been talked about to death. There are multiple…
Drew’s Reviews: IT CHAPTER TWO
By Andrew Jenck Expectations were not high for It, as most Stephen King adaptions, at that point, were generally not well received, and Pennywise’s new design seemed to be a turnoff. Proving…
Drew’s Editorials: SPIDER-TEMBER: SPIDER-MCU NO MORE
By Andrew Jenck Spider-Man is no longer a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, maybe. It’s not official but at the same time it sounds official? The point is, Spider-Man’s future as…
Drew’s Reviews: Best of Summer 2019 (Part 1)
By Andrew Jenck This wasn’t the best season for blockbusters. Most of the heavy hitters were bombs and looked so uninteresting that I skipped most of them. However, there were still plenty…
Drew’s Reviews: CULPA (Episodes 1-3)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Arch Cape Studios’ CULPA episodes feature familiar coastal scenes, and many local actors, filmed in 2014 by Drew Reid, we thought it would be fun for the Pioneer’s Drew to…
Drew’s Reviews: MY SKIP LIST
EDITOR’S NOTE: So many movies, so little time … and a lot of suggestions from readers. Just like the Pioneer, Drew aims to provide readers with valuable reviews and information, not just…
DREW’S OP/ED: A LESS THAN MARVELOUS FUTURE
By Andrew Jenck Over the past two years, my interest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has dwindled. Not just because Avengers: Endgame just wrapped up an entire era but also because the…
Drew’s Review: ALADDIN—A Whole Familiar World
By Andrew Jenck Many don’t seem to understand just how limitless animation is — any color pallet can be chosen, characters perform more exaggerated stunts, and the “camera man” essentially the angle…