‘Batman Begins’ playing at the Panida
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There have been a lot of great movies in the Batman franchise. There have also been some real doozies. Batman Begins, released in 2005 and directed by Christopher Nolan,...
Category: Movie Reviews
America at the movies
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Since the first decades of the 20th century, Americans have received the bulk of their self understanding as a national community from cinema and TV screens. A small but...
Panida opens its doors to Bozeman Film Festival of Shorts
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Panida Theater has been dark for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, but the marquee will again light up for the first event in more than two months...
Controversial opinion:
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff My wife and I can’t remember when we started reading The Game of Thrones — the first book in fantasy author George R.R. Martin’s yet-to-be finished seven-book series A...
Robbery and romance
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Released in 1982, The Grey Fox tells the story of stagecoach robber and recently released prisoner Bill Miner, played by Richard Farnsworth. A restored version of the film will...
Ground control to Spaceship Earth
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If you think the coronavirus quarantine has lasted a long time, talk to the crew of Biosphere 2. In 1991, a group of eight visionaries spent two years quarantined...
Small town, big story
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff An acclaimed coming-of-age documentary based in a small Florida town serves as the next film in the Panida Theater’s Virtual Viewing Rooms Series. The theater will offer virtual screenings...
When the going gets weird…
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When researchers of intellectual and social history someday assess “The Coronavirus Era,” the smart money is on them framing it as a period of mass self-assessment in the so-called...
True crime is truly divine
By Ben Olson Reader Staff America is obsessed with true crime. It seems everywhere you turn there is another true crime documentary series that delves into the dark, evil, sometimes morbidly funny underworld of...
French ‘therapy drama’ playing in Panida’s virtual screening series
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff If there isn’t one yet, there needs to be a name for the principle that, “If you can think of it, there’s a movie genre for it.” Read the...
