Panida to show Knives Out as $5 film
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Few recent film characters have achieved such instant icon status as Benoit Blanc, the suave southern sleuth invented by writer-director Rian Johnson for his 2019 …
Category: Movie Reviews
In celebration of animation
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
In the age of soulless CGI and Disney’s monotonous, bug-eyed, bobble-headed animation style, it’s rare to watch something and feel immersed in true art. Arcane…
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 …
Mad about Science: Dune
By Molly Madrid
Reader Staff
Everyone is familiar with the saying: “Fact is stranger than fiction.” Perhaps, instead, we should focus on how strange writers of fiction tend to be.…
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, …
Fly Fishing Film Festival showcases the beauty of the sport
By Reader Staff
As the days get shorter and colder, spend an evening dreaming of outdoor adventure with the annual International Fly Fishing Film Festival, returning to the Panida Theater …
The best inside jokes in the history of television
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Television shows have often been filled with cliches, tropes and overt jokes written for a broad audience. Even the plotlines to some shows are so …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
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