Category: Movie Reviews

Arts & Culture / Movie Reviews / Random Digital Madness

March 19, 2024

Dune: Part 2 is a visual treat, but strays from its source in critical ways

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

After decades of waiting, devotees of Dune may be feeling like their time has finally come — that the sleeper of their fandom has awakened …

Arts & Culture / Community Happenings / Movie Reviews / panida theater

February 21, 2024

Innovia Foundation to host free film screenings at Panida, Roxy Theater

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

The Innovia Foundation is spending the month of February spotlighting historic theaters in communities across eastern Washington and North Idaho, including the Panida Theater in …

Arts & Culture / History / Movie Reviews / Opinion / Random Digital Madness

February 21, 2024

The Holdovers really is a holdover to a more human type of film

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

At its most basic, The Holdovers reads like a Hallmark holiday special: an embittered, middle-aged man; a teenaged boy whose loneliness has honed the chip …

Arts & Culture / Changing Your Mind / Featured / Movie Reviews / Opening Hearts and Minds / Opinion / Random Digital Madness

February 18, 2024

Mother, daughter, temptress, victim

By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff

A writer, essayist, poet and professor at the University of Puget Sound, where I earned my English degree, gave an insightful lecture on representation and …

Movie Reviews / Random Digital Madness / Travel

February 7, 2024

A trip to the surreal

By Susan Drinkard
Reader Contributor

A Trip to Bountiful is my all-time favorite movie, but a trip to Syme’s Hot Springs is my favorite trip to the surreal. Having visited …

Featured / Movie Reviews / Opinion / Politics

February 4, 2024

Idiocracy, the documentary

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

When Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy was released in 2006, it landed in a different world. This was years before a buffoon named Donald Trump started …

Featured / Movie Reviews / Opinion

January 31, 2024

At the Max-ness of Madness

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

Look no further than the first lines of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1931 novella At the Mountains of Madness to get a decent grip on the opening …

Featured / Movie Reviews / Music

January 29, 2024

Bangers and meh

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

Most critics agree that television is currently experiencing a heyday. Where before it was considered a lesser tier to feature films, it’s now common for …

Movie Reviews / Music / Opinion

January 24, 2024