Red Pilled
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
“The minute God crapped out the third caveman a conspiracy was hatched against one of them.”
— Col. Hunter Gathers, OSS (ret., also fictitious)
QAnon …
Category: Movie Reviews
True Crime
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Aristotle thought long and hard about the nature of wickedness — specifically, the moral nature of ill deeds performed knowingly or unknowingly. In his Nicomachean …
The Swedish Forrest Gump — with dynamite
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The literature and cinema of the Scandanavian countries has enjoyed a robust yet still niche following in the U.S. for some time — seemingly specializing …
‘Nomadland’ is a pensive portrait of economic and social dislocation
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s unclear what critics mean when they say Nomadland is a film that mingles joy and sorrow. There is very little of the former and …
The future in black and white
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
What would you do with tomorrow’s newspaper today? This is the narrated theme that opens each episode of Early Edition, a four-season show that …
What would Mister Rogers do?
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Fred Rogers — or, as he was known for more than 30 years on his PBS show, Mister Rogers — remains a guiding light for …
A groundbreaking discovery
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sometimes it seems there’s little left for humankind to discover other than ever-more inventive ways to mess things up. So it is especially satisfying to …
You got a friend in me
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Evil is no doubt the predominant preoccupation of humankind — if it wasn’t, we’d have no need for its supposed equal and opposite. There’d be …
Wilderness comes home with Wild and Scenic Film Festival
By Reader Staff
Breathtaking vistas. High adventure. Stories that celebrate both nature and the human spirit.
It’s what the wilderness experience is all about and that’s what’s on offer with …
Slowpiercer
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When Snowpiercer appeared in theaters in 2013, few American viewers knew the work of Korean director Bong Joon-ho. Yet, the film — one of the …
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TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Filmmaker Jimmy Matlosz of the Idaho Film Company has made a series of mini documentaries about influential Sandpoint locals, including the late Dann Hall and Erik Daarstad as well as icons Diane Michaels and Dan Shook. He is currently working on a series of interviews connected to the history of the Panida Theater. Jimmy is a 30-year veteran filmmaker who’s work can be seen at dpmatlosz.com.
