By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Few authors’ works cry out more loudly for film adaptation than Roald Dahl’s, and few directors are more suited to the task than Wes Anderson. The auteur made his animation...
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Fans of whimsical filmmaking are in luck: The Panida Theater is launching a Wes Anderson film series for its ongoing $5 movie night. The series begins with Moonrise Kingdom at...
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...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff In a tip of the tammie to St. Patrick’s Day, the Panida Theater is hosting two screenings Sunday, March 16 of the 1952 romantic comedy/drama The Quiet Man. Directed...
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...
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,...
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....
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Holidays never seem to go as planned — no matter how hard a person might work to make everything “perfect” on any given special day, the universe will more...
By Zach Hagadone In case you haven’t noticed, the Tuesday, Nov. 5 election is kind of a big deal. But so is Ron Burgundy, the schmoozy-schmaltzy bigshot San Diego TV news anchor played to...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Though Ernest Hemingway’s novels For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952) are perhaps his best known, Across the River and Into the...
