By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Some movies only get better with age. Fewer still become even more allegorical. Jaws, the iconic 1975 thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, is one such film. Adapted from the...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff My house is a Bob’s Burgers house. I know the show isn’t technically all that appropriate for young kids, but my 10- and 7-year-old are pretty mature for their...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Watching Batman movies is starting to feel like going to church. Every time we have a new interpretation of the “Caped Crusader” on TV or in theaters, we dutifully...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff So many movie-goers are habituated to the scale of contemporary blockbusters that few filmmakers dare to tell stories featuring small casts, much less set them in a single interior...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It was two years ago — almost to the day — that I plugged Wes Anderson’s “new” movie The French Dispatch in the Sandpoint Reader. Of course, we all...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Almost certainly banking on Americans hunkering down during the holiday season — it’s not like anyone’s getting anywhere via plane — Disney+ rolled out two big-ticket offerings in recent...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s hard to stress how extensively critics have lost their damn minds over Parasite, the South Korean-language film from iconic-director-in-the-making Bong Joon-ho. Released in 2019, the darkly comedic thriller...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff By its nature, nothing is as it seems when it comes to espionage. Such is the case — in more ways than one — with “Red Joan,” the 2019...
By Jim Healey Reader Contributor The film “Green Book” is currently riding a wave of financial and critical success. It recently won the Best Picture award at the 91st Oscars, and this, in turn,...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff How effectively can a fart convey the human experience? That’s the question filmmakers Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, known professionally as Daniels, tackle in “Swiss Army Man,” an absurdist...
