Panida opens its doors to Bozeman Film Festival of Shorts
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Panida Theater has been dark for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, but the marquee will again light up for the first event in …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Panida Theater has been dark for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, but the marquee will again light up for the first event in …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
My wife and I can’t remember when we started reading The Game of Thrones — the first book in fantasy author George R.R. Martin’s yet-to-be …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Released in 1982, The Grey Fox tells the story of stagecoach robber and recently released prisoner Bill Miner, played by Richard Farnsworth. A restored version …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
If you think the coronavirus quarantine has lasted a long time, talk to the crew of Biosphere 2.
In 1991, a group of eight visionaries …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
An acclaimed coming-of-age documentary based in a small Florida town serves as the next film in the Panida Theater’s Virtual Viewing Rooms Series. The theater …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When researchers of intellectual and social history someday assess “The Coronavirus Era,” the smart money is on them framing it as a period of mass …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
America is obsessed with true crime. It seems everywhere you turn there is another true crime documentary series that delves into the dark, evil, sometimes …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
If there isn’t one yet, there needs to be a name for the principle that, “If you can think of it, there’s a movie genre …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Panida Theater’s Virtual Viewing Rooms series will be screening Supa Modo, an endearing Kenyan film that has critics and audiences raving.
Directed by …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The local libraries have been closed for more than a month and my personal collection of DVDs has run dry. The TV antenna, which captures …
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