Escapism at its best
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Panida Theater’s Virtual Viewing Rooms series will be screening Supa Modo, an endearing Kenyan film that has critics and audiences raving. Directed by Likarion Wainaina, Supa Modo is...
Category: Movie Reviews
Where the bananas belt
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The local libraries have been closed for more than a month and my personal collection of DVDs has run dry. The TV antenna, which captures about four channels, is...
From perp to priest
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Panida Theater is continuing its Virtual Viewing Rooms series by screening Corpus Christi, a Polish drama about an ex-con accidentally turned priest. The Panida will offer virtual screenings...
Dune might be Hollywood’s most cursed property
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As Frank Herbert wrote in his iconic sci-fi novel Dune, “God made Arrakis to train the faithful.” Faithful his fans have been, from 1965 to present, praying to the...
The Joker and Judy
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Aside from the tribalism of professional sports and the bloodsport of political shitposting on Facebook, the gleeful deconstruction of celebrity ranks among 21st-century Americans’ preferred pastimes. Two films released...
Infectious enthusiasm
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s hard to stress how extensively critics have lost their damn minds over Parasite, the South Korean-language film from iconic-director-in-the-making Bong Joon-ho. Released in 2019, the darkly comedic thriller...
Nature and narrative
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As decades of language arts teachers have told us, there are four central forms of conflict inherent in any narrative: character vs. character, character vs. society, character vs. self...
Do you wanna build a sequel?
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff I went to see the first Frozen movie with my three sisters in 2013 as a senior in high school. My baby sister was 11 years old at the...
Snoozer Agent
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff By its nature, nothing is as it seems when it comes to espionage. Such is the case — in more ways than one — with “Red Joan,” the 2019...
Rethinking ‘Green Book’
By Jim Healey Reader Contributor The film “Green Book” is currently riding a wave of financial and critical success. It recently won the Best Picture award at the 91st Oscars, and this, in turn,...
