Lifestyles of the rich and worthless
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Most sources credit Jean-Jacques Rousseau with writing, “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” No one knows for certain whether he actually...
Tagged: movie review
Original Toy Story to screen in Panida’s Sunday $5 film series
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Calling the 1995 Disney-Pixar animated film Toy Story a cultural juggernaut is no exaggeration. From its then-cutting edge computer-generated graphics depicting the sentient denizens of young Andy Davis’ toy...
The Substance features a lot of substance, but without the need to overthink it
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,...
Panida to host double screenings of classic mockumentary Best in Show
By Reader Staff Some may not know that writer-director Christopher Guest is also a baron and member of the British House of Lords. What everyone already does know is that Guest is peerless when...
Emily Articulated: Severance
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist What if you never had to think about work outside of the office again? No stress, no emails, no lingering dread of Monday mornings. The cost? Just losing half...
Sandpoint’s Winter Carnival celebrates the Sled Hill
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...
Documentary film Jim Henson: Idea Man shows new side of visionary puppeteer
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...
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...
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...
