Panida screens Groundhog Day for $5 on Groundhog Day
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Anyone who works in local media knows the peculiar exhaustion that goes with covering the same event year after year. There are only so many ways to frame a...
Category: Movie Reviews
Instant classic Hundreds of Beavers to screen as $5 movie at the Panida
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When director/co-writer Mike Cheslik gave an interview to the Associated Press about his black-and-white, mostly silent slapstick comedy Hundreds of Beavers last year, he said, “When we were shooting,...
Documentary film Clark Ashton Smith: The Emperor of Dreams, rediscovers one of 20th-century literature’s true originals
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Of the many hazards of being an artistic trailblazer is that your creations turn into tropes while your hand in inventing them gets forgotten. That’s the fate suffered by...
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour returns to Panida for 30th annual showing
By Reader Staff The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour will return to Sandpoint for its 30th time with three nights of screenings on Friday, Jan. 17 and Saturday, Jan. 18 at 7...
Stop calling Nosferatu ‘Gothic’
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Warning: This article contains spoilers. Horror movies aren’t especially known for their delicate themes and social commentary, but fans had high hopes for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, which promised to...
The films of 2024
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The past year lacked anything like “Barbenheimer” in more ways than one. No two films captured the cultural imagination like Barbie and Oppenheimer did in 2023, much less one....
The old new TV of 2024
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Critics and movie buffs alike have railed against Hollywood for years over its plethora of sequels, prequels and remakes. TV has been likewise formulaic and repetitive, but it reached...
Panida to show Knives Out as $5 film
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Few recent film characters have achieved such instant icon status as Benoit Blanc, the suave southern sleuth invented by writer-director Rian Johnson for his 2019 surprise hit Knives Out....
In celebration of animation
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff In the age of soulless CGI and Disney’s monotonous, bug-eyed, bobble-headed animation style, it’s rare to watch something and feel immersed in true art. Arcane set out to change...
Dune: Prophecy trafficks in uninspired inevitability
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s getting hard to justify the buzz around certain “prestige” series — in no small part because, somehow, despite having an endless supply of money and intellectual property, so...
