Hem-meh-way
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s hard to imagine what more can be said about Ernest Hemingway. Born in Illinois in 1899, died by self-inflicted gunshot in Idaho in 1961, in the interim he...
Category: Movie Reviews
Oops! What have we done to Britney?
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When The New York Times-produced documentary Framing Britney Spears hit FX and Hulu earlier this year it captivated audiences, but not in the way that a sold-out Spears stadium...
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 checks a lot of...
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 Ethics, the philosopher argued...
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 in moody, violent police...
‘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 much of the latter...
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 ran from 1996-2000 and followed...
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 people who grew up...
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 reconnect with a sense...
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 no religion; no laws;...
