Getting to know the new Panida director
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Veronica Knowlton has passion — that much is evident after speaking with her for just a few minutes. The 28-year-old chosen by the Panida Board of Trustees as the...
Category: Movie Reviews
The next generation of storytellers
By Ben Olson Reader Staff With the advent of new technology and media, the art of storytelling has changed volumes in the millenia humans have inhabited the earth but, at its core, storytelling still...
Warren Miller ski film to play at Panida
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There are few personalities more recognizable to skiers than Warren Miller. Laid back, genial and at times goofy, Miller’s commentary on his annual ski films has heralded the upcoming...
LuLaRich docuseries doesn’t say it out loud, but it’s really about the ‘prosperity gospel’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff On a basic level, LuLaRich is a four-episode expose of women’s clothing company LuLaRoe featuring a host of current and former retailers, many of whom argue that it’s a...
Some pig
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s hard to overstate how important Nicolas Cage is to the cultural fabric of 21st-century America. He of the crazy eye, the absurd emotional outburst, simultaneously under- and over-stated,...
I come from the past to warn you not to watch ‘The Tomorrow War’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Released for streaming July 2 on Amazon Prime, The Tomorrow War imagines what would happen if an alien invasion well-nigh depopulated the planet of humans between 2048 and 2051...
Sandpoint-based cinematographer’s latest work released
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If you’ve spent more than a minute in North Idaho, you may have commented how it seems this region is beautiful enough to be a film backdrop. For Sandpoint-based...
Dads on film
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Stereotypes abound when it comes to “dad movies”: Dads love war movies, so the culture tells us. Dads like films about history in general: knights and pirates; explorers, space-...
Home away from home
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The 2020 film Minari, from South Korean writer/director Lee Isaac Chung, is a deft, affecting example of the notion that cultures are often best understood through the lens of...
Watch an ASMR massage video and thank me later
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff I remember the day I watched my first ASMR video. I stumbled across the concept in a podcast. The hosts described a YouTube genre made entirely for the purpose...
