He said, he said
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff No matter your geographic location or the language you speak, every world citizen is familiar with the emotional and social toll that political polarization can take on a community...
Category: Movie Reviews
From her nation to the world
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Mary Frances Thompson Fisher grew up during a tumultuous time in Native American history, coming of age at the turn of the 20th century in pre-statehood Oklahoma as a...
Screening of feature film F.E.A.R. to benefit Panida
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It takes a lot of work to make a feature film. All the pre-production, planning, shooting, rewriting, editing and a thousand other tasks are instantly worth it the moment...
Documentary White Noise paints a portrait of alt-right provocateurs
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Journalists, documentarians and certain types of social scientists have for a long time been familiar with the conundrum of researching and reporting on subjects with corrosive ideas. After every...
A kinder, gentler kind of film
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Living in a dramatic age when each day seems to bring some new calamity or crisis, quiet displays of empathy are refreshing. That’s truer as many of us live...
Shades of gray
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The ironies and contradictions in Passing, a 2021 Netflix film based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, are apparent from the outset. The story leans into its internal...
Disney delivers magic and mayhem with Encanto and The Book of Boba Fett
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Almost certainly banking on Americans hunkering down during the holiday season — it’s not like anyone’s getting anywhere via plane — Disney+ rolled out two big-ticket offerings in recent...
Portrait of the artist as an old man
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Digging through the Reader morgue, I found the obituary of sorts we wrote for Kurt Vonnegut in the April 12, 2007 edition — one day after he died in...
Dog eat dog
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Films seem to appear out of nowhere these days, popping up with little to no fanfare on various streaming services. That can be good or bad — in the...
A documentary for our times
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The good news is The Antidote is a wonderful, uplifting documentary film. The bad news? That it had to be made in the first place. The Bonner County Human...
