By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Contributor There are few more enduring pop culture icons than James Bond. For 60 years, 007 has defined and redefined the action blockbuster. But there’s more to the series than...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Midway through my first semester as a grad student in history I’d had enough of complexity. Reading about 1,000 pages a week, grading papers for 70+ freshmen and participating...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s a common thing for people beyond a certain age — say, those who graduated high school before or immediately after the turn of the century — to comment...
By Reader Staff G-Dog is a film about second chances. The documentary focuses on the charismatic visionary Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest who rescued kids from gangs by launching the nation’s largest, most successful...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff In the immediate days following Sept. 11, 2001, I sat for a junior-year class called “Apocalyptic Literature” at then-Albertson College of Idaho. I remember the professor dropped a pile...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Look past the piety of the Puritans, their stovepipe hats and buckle shoes, and an earnest reader of early American history will find a thick vein of supernatural horror...
By Reader Staff The Sandpoint Film Festival, usually hosted at the Panida Theater in the beginning of November, is celebrating its 10th anniversary but under different circumstances in the strange and challenging year of...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Science-fiction — at least good science-fiction — confounds our present understanding of ourselves. Far from laser battles and the wonky speculative theory of interstellar travel, the true masterpieces of...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The story of my recent television consumption begins where most stories of 2020 begin: acknowledging that this year has, in many ways, not been good. Between the pandemic and...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There was a time, not so long ago it seems, when the idea of a movie starring Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson flying under the radar would have been...
