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....
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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...
Watch the Griswolds’ holiday go up in flames with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
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...
O Brother, Where Art Thou? features as Panida $5 film
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Among the movies that came to theaters in the early 2000s, O Brother, Where Art Thou? could be regarded as one that approaches perfection. Written and directed by brothers...
Netflix series Chimp Crazy lives up to both parts of its title
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Like many people — probably too many people — I binged Tiger King in its entirety when it arose as a short-lived cultural behemoth during the early dark days...
‘Great Odin’s raven!’ Panida to host Anchorman as $5 film
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...
Civil War(s)
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Though art often imitates life, that’s not a good thing when the art in question is a vision of what a contemporary U.S. civil war might look like. That’s...
Panida to screen Across the River and Into the Trees, based on Hemingway war novel
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...
A-list Alien(s)
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff With Alien: Romulus in theaters now — and because I haven’t been able to make it to the cinema to see it yet — I contented myself with rewatching...
Napoleonic
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s tempting to say that the new film Napoleon, from director Ridley Scott, which premiered in theaters just before Thanksgiving, comes at an apt time — given how many...
