High hopes on the slopes
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Some films draw their juice from a stellar ensemble cast. For others, it’s a killer premise. For some, like the 2019 rom-com Olympic Dreams, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Some films draw their juice from a stellar ensemble cast. For others, it’s a killer premise. For some, like the 2019 rom-com Olympic Dreams, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Writing for CNN, acclaimed University of Texas at Austin historian, and one of the leading American thinkers on race, Peniel Joseph took up the topic …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Panida Theater starts off its 2020 theater season with a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Love Letters, by playwright A.R. Gurney, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Aside from the tribalism of professional sports and the bloodsport of political shitposting on Facebook, the gleeful deconstruction of celebrity ranks among 21st-century Americans’ preferred …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Contributor
How do you make fun of one of the darkest chapters in world history?
It’s a question comedy filmmakers have grappled with for decades. World …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It’s time once again for all outdoor enthusiasts to gather at the altar of winter sport to herald in another year of movies from the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Celtic interpretations of Christmas tunes have become a staple of holiday season playlists, but rarely are they performed with the sheer talent, pedigree and affinity …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
What the late, great Warren Miller did for ski movies, Thunderstruck Films has been doing for snowmobiling with more than 20 films since 2000.
The …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Each year when Sandpoint natives Laurie and Katelyn Shook come home to play their annual Giving Thanks show at the Panida Theater, they put in …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
People often do a lot of acting around the holidays — acting like they love green bean casserole, acting like their career is “going great” …
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