Mother, daughter, temptress, victim
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff A writer, essayist, poet and professor at the University of Puget Sound, where I earned my English degree, gave an insightful lecture on representation and the nature of good...
Category: Movie Reviews
A trip to the surreal
By Susan Drinkard Reader Contributor A Trip to Bountiful is my all-time favorite movie, but a trip to Syme’s Hot Springs is my favorite trip to the surreal. Having visited the hot springs innumerable...
Idiocracy, the documentary
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy was released in 2006, it landed in a different world. This was years before a buffoon named Donald Trump started questioning Barack Obama’s birthplace,...
At the Max-ness of Madness
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Look no further than the first lines of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1931 novella At the Mountains of Madness to get a decent grip on the opening of the fourth season...
Bangers and meh
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Most critics agree that television is currently experiencing a heyday. Where before it was considered a lesser tier to feature films, it’s now common for A-list celebrities to participate...
A meditation on the science of musical taste
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Contributor I recently revisited what can only be described as a cinematic and musical masterpiece of the 21st century: the 2003 film School of Rock, starring Jack Black and a...
Banff Mountain Film Festival returns to the Panida
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Since 1995, the Panida Theater has been the local home of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which last year expanded for the first time to three nights of screenings...
Movies coming up in 2024
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Over the course of the new year, Hollywood will embrace its growing trend of trodding familiar ground. While there are some intriguing original film concepts to be excited about,...
Top TV of 2023
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff More than a few cultural observers have opined that we’re living in a “Golden Age of TV,” and that may be true, but those same observers have been saying...
2023 on the big screen
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Even if my only job at the Reader was to watch movies and TV series, there would be no way to catch them all. I only saw about 20...
