When the going gets weird…
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When researchers of intellectual and social history someday assess “The Coronavirus Era,” the smart money is on them framing it as a period of mass …
Category: Movie Reviews
True crime is truly divine
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
America is obsessed with true crime. It seems everywhere you turn there is another true crime documentary series that delves into the dark, evil, sometimes …
French ‘therapy drama’ playing in Panida’s virtual screening series
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
If there isn’t one yet, there needs to be a name for the principle that, “If you can think of it, there’s a movie genre …
Escapism at its best
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Panida Theater’s Virtual Viewing Rooms series will be screening Supa Modo, an endearing Kenyan film that has critics and audiences raving.
Directed by …
Where the bananas belt
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The local libraries have been closed for more than a month and my personal collection of DVDs has run dry. The TV antenna, which captures …
From perp to priest
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Panida Theater is continuing its Virtual Viewing Rooms series by screening Corpus Christi, a Polish drama about an ex-con accidentally turned priest.
The …
Dune might be Hollywood’s most cursed property
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As Frank Herbert wrote in his iconic sci-fi novel Dune, “God made Arrakis to train the faithful.” Faithful his fans have been, from 1965 …
The Joker and Judy
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Aside from the tribalism of professional sports and the bloodsport of political shitposting on Facebook, the gleeful deconstruction of celebrity ranks among 21st-century Americans’ preferred …
Infectious enthusiasm
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 …
Nature and narrative
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As decades of language arts teachers have told us, there are four central forms of conflict inherent in any narrative: character vs. character, character vs. …
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