Weighing the head and heart for 2026 Oscars picks
By Willie WittezehlerReader Contributor For me, the Oscars are basically the Super Bowl. My family has treated them that way for years. We dress up in tuxes and gowns, walk a makeshift red carpet...
Category: Movies and Theater
What’s on at the Panida
By Soncirey Mitchelland Zach HagadoneReader Staff Amateur Hour Racing Filmmaker Nick Hyphen and Baja Ironman Finisher Kevin Clyde will take the Panida stage on Thursday, March 12, at 7 p.m. for the world premiere...
Panida board addresses rumors of rental policy changes
By Ben OlsonReader Staff The Panida Theater board of trustees’ monthly meeting March 5 drew a few more spectators than usual. The Little Theater was filled to capacity, with others standing along the back...
Panida screening of Sandpoint: At the North End of the Long Bridge celebrates the town’s 125th anniversary
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff It’s been 125 years since Sandpoint was incorporated on Feb. 7, 1901, and the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum is celebrating with a special screening of Sandpoint: At the...
Fly Fishing Film Tour returns to Panida for 20th annual slate of screenings
By Reader Staff Celebrating its 20th year, the Fly Fishing Film Tour is returning to Sandpoint on Friday, Feb. 27, with two hours of screenings at the Panida Theater (300 N. First Ave.). Doors...
A four-hour long diss track
Sean Combs: The Reckoning showcases another rich, famous person doing terrible things By Ben OlsonReader Staff When historian James Truslow Adams defined the “American Dream” in 1931, he emphasized that it was “not a...
If you could erase your traumatic memories, would you?
Coeur d’Alene family’s sci-fi thriller Recollection to screen at Panida Theater By Reader Staff After an award-winning 2025 film festival run, independent Paradox Studios announced that its first feature has landed worldwide distribution. Recollection...
Starfleet Academy and Fallout: Anatomy of a review bombing
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff On the surface, Fallout and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy couldn’t be much more different. The former is a post-apocalyptic wasteland romp with hard-MA violence and more gallows humor than an...
Winter Carnival 2026: Week 1
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff It may feel like spring outside, but that doesn’t mean the Winter Carnival won’t be in full swing Friday, Feb. 13, through Sunday, Feb. 22. Sandpoint and Schweitzer have prepared...
The Royal Tenenbaums comes to the Panida as part of Wes Anderson film series
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Auteur Wes Anderson first came to audiences’ attention with Bottle Rocket and Rushmore in 1996 and 1998, respectively, but his 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums cemented his place as a...
