By Reader Staff Breathtaking vistas. High adventure. Stories that celebrate both nature and the human spirit. It’s what the wilderness experience is all about and that’s what’s on offer with the Wild and Scenic...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When Snowpiercer appeared in theaters in 2013, few American viewers knew the work of Korean director Bong Joon-ho. Yet, the film — one of the most expensive in Korean...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There are a handful of annual events in Sandpoint that really draw people out of the woodwork. Banff Mountain Film Festival has always packed the Panida Theater in years...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff As a child of the Shonda Rhimes era of network television, I am always willing to give anything she puts her name to a try. The woman behind instant...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When Netflix hits me with a show descriptor containing words like “deadpan” and “cynical,” count me in. I’m a slave to the algorithm like all of us. The “Netflix...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Stories of end times for humankind have been around for millennia. Likewise, generations of moviegoers have flocked to flicks depicting various apocalyptic scenarios. Whether they’re drawn to classics of...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff George Clooney is back in the game after a four-year movie hiatus to play Augustine Lofthouse in The Midnight Sky, a post-apocalyptic space film that also features Clooney in...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Better than classic Christmas movies are the Christmas episodes from the TV shows we know and love. Beloved characters reveal their holiday hang-ups, gatherings force tense relationships to breaking...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Eric Plummer feels at home in a movie theater. The man behind the newly revamped Sandpoint Cinemas — formerly known as the Bonner Mall Cinemas — said he was...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Movies about movies being written by writers — much less writing a review of such a movie — risks plunging viewers and readers alike into a snarl of competing...
