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...
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...
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...
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...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Apparent simplicity belies deep meaning in the best stories, and the 2025 film Mickey 17, from writer-director Bong Joon-ho, is a puckish masterclass in the art of dramedy-sci fi-satire....
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Of all the Star Wars properties outside the three big trilogies, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) has always stood out as particularly superb. In my personal ranking,...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sandpoint’s car-centered civic holiday Lost in the ’50s will take over downtown from Thursday, May 15-Saturday, May 17, and the Panida Theater is also getting in on the action...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff A lot of reviews of The Substance are filled with thinky references to an uncommonly large number of other films, from Carrie to The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey,...
By Reader Staff As part of Sandpoint’s annual Winter Carnival, the Kaniksu Land Trust will host the premiere of the short film The Sled Hill at the Panida Theater (300 N. First Ave.) on...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Anyone who doesn’t know the name “Jim Henson” should go sit in a corner and think about their life choices. The legendary creator of the Muppets revolutionized American puppetry...
