Viggo Mortensen returns to the Panida with Falling
By Reader Staff A-list actor, part-time area resident and patron of the arts Viggo Mortensen will make a special local appearance Friday, Aug. 29 for a 7 p.m. screening of his 2020 drama Falling...
Category: Movie Reviews
Panida brings iconic sci-fi horror Alien to the big screen
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff It’s hard to overstate how influential Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien has been to the sci-fi horror/action genres, or filmmaking in general. The “haunted house in space” thriller was unlike anything...
From Colbert to South Park, making fun of Trump has never been more important
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler complained that British propaganda worked better than its German counterpoint in World War I because the former portrayed the latter as savage brutes (“huns”) pillaging...
The Phoenician Scheme delivers on sincere devotion to family and flim-flam
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Among the many constants in Wes Anderson’s movies is that they reward repeat viewings. Anderson loads every scene and interaction with so many visual and aural details that screenings often...
Emily Articulated: Superman
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist This weekend, I found myself in line at the Sandpoint Cinemas, joining a surprisingly full (for Sandpoint) crowd eager to see the new Superman movie. James Gunn’s take on the...
Pee-wee as Himself is a gripping portrait of a complex artist — never a ‘sad clown’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Watching the two-part HBO Max documentary Pee-wee as Himself, it’s tempting to draw associations with a novel like Heinrich Böll’s The Clown or an opera like Pagliacci. Both are...
Panida to show Independence Day as $5 movie
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Perhaps the second most famous instance of Will Smith smacking somebody in the face happened during the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day when he punched an alien. See it on...
Bring back the mushroom zombies
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Editor’s note: Spoilers ahead. As much as it pains me to write this, Season 2 of The Last of Us left me cold. Cold like a mushroom person in...
Pro-Voice Project premiers one-woman documentary play in NYC
By Reader Staff From her days working a chainsaw and writing a regular column with the Sandpoint Reader, Jen Jackson Quintano has emerged as the go-to women’s reproductive rights activist in North Idaho. Her...
‘Anderson fatigue’ be damned, I’m excited for The Phoenician Scheme
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff If we didn’t have Wes Anderson, we’d have to create him. And every entry from the auteur director is a “creation” in the fullest sense. Anderson’s milieu is among...
