Idiocracy, the documentary
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
When Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy was released in 2006, it landed in a different world. This was years before a buffoon named Donald Trump started …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
When Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy was released in 2006, it landed in a different world. This was years before a buffoon named Donald Trump started …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Look no further than the first lines of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1931 novella At the Mountains of Madness to get a decent grip on the opening …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Most critics agree that television is currently experiencing a heyday. Where before it was considered a lesser tier to feature films, it’s now common for …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Contributor
I recently revisited what can only be described as a cinematic and musical masterpiece of the 21st century: the 2003 film School of Rock, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Since 1995, the Panida Theater has been the local home of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which last year expanded for the first time to …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Over the course of the new year, Hollywood will embrace its growing trend of trodding familiar ground. While there are some intriguing original film concepts …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
More than a few cultural observers have opined that we’re living in a “Golden Age of TV,” and that may be true, but those same …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Even if my only job at the Reader was to watch movies and TV series, there would be no way to catch them all. I …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
By their nature, apocalypse movies are unsubtle. Regardless of the trappings, every film in the genre follows the same basic narrative arc: one day things …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Beloved Christmas traditions like giving gifts, baking cookies and caroling make the modern celebration the most saccharine holiday of the year — at least in …
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