Arts & Culture
Props go to Shinji Higuchi for keeping the kaiju out of American hands, but “Shin Ultraman” is not the strongest monster movie in the franchise.
The University Center’s newest restaurant Monte’s Den can’t out-pizza the Hut, but it’s an affordable, satisfying option for the always starving college student.
HBO’s new series “The Last of Us” has succeeded in ways that few, if any, video game adaptations have.
The Missoula Community Theatre plans to bring magic, potions and comedy to the stage for its upcoming Potter-esque “Puffs, or the Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic.”
It takes a good movie to know a bad movie, so thankfully there were plenty of both in 2022. It takes a “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” or a “Hocus Pocus 2” to truly appreciate “Mad God” or “The Menu.” Last year’s movie quality can be summarized through both “Pinocchio” movies:…
Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” is a grandiose mess of disgustingly raunchy, chaotic nonsense twisted into a hot, steaming pile of video vomit, but it’s not bad.
Clawing up the DreamWorks Animation ranks, “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” is the movie fans wished for but the last thing anyone expected.
Three years ago, Emily Ruskovich won the International Dublin Literary Award for her debut novel, “Idaho.” The award goes to just one book written or translated into English. Now, she is guiding students at the University of Montana.
Groups of children jumped up and down, shouting “Peppa” in unison as they waited in anticipation to see the famous cartoon British pig take center stage. Their impatient calls were soon answered as some college students’ nightmares emerged: giant, life-size pigs and their faceless puppeteers.
One of the most controversial topics known to man is “what qualifies as a Christmas movie?” It’s a matter of personal philosophy that separates the true believers from the scrooges. Some films take place during or around Christmas, some have an overarching theme of Christmas spirit and some …
Steven Spielberg’s newest picture “The Fabelmans” embodies the dazzling movie magic from which it derives.
Volunteers for the Montana Museum of Art and Culture started cataloging and packing the first of many collections to be rehomed in the new MMAC building after construction finishes early next year.
In 1989, a group of well-established female artists based in Missoula met in a private studio to draw the female figure. Around 33 years later, the select group of artists who make up the Pattee Canyon Ladies Salon have become the oldest active group of female artists in the state of Montana…
Of all the thoughtless gifts you didn’t ask for, but will receive for Christmas this year, “A Christmas Story Christmas” is the lousiest. From the mastermind behind “The Angry Birds Movie,” comes a poorly packaged, cheap knockoff of a sequel 40 years out of style.
Since the discontinuation of LaserDisc in 2000 and then the discontinuation of VHS in 2007, two physical movie formats prevail: DVD and Blu-ray. One is superior to the other in terms of quality, space and storage, but the other is DVD and it’s still pretty cool.
Music
Maggie Lindemann refuses to corner herself in one genre.But maybe this pop princess should.Is “PARANOIA” bad? No. Sho…
Local musicians Adam Holden and Quint Bishop have joined forces to create smoochie, a new sad-boi indie duo.
Never, in all my angsty teen years of listening to the Goo Goo Dolls, did I expect the post-grunge band — known for t…
Programming
The University of Montana’s theater and dance program is set to present “Dance Up Close,” a series of 10 solo dance p…
In spite of pandemic difficulties, University of Montana dance students have created a production that will surely im…
The Montana Film Festival, hosted by the Roxy, is making a triumphant, digital return. As COVID-19 kneecaps independe…
Culture
The purple and blue light that served as the background of the online filmed musical “Welcome to the Void” is comfort…
The strumming and singing of Aaron Broxertman penetrated the sound of every other act at the University of Montana’s …
An abstract and diverse collection of drawings, pressed plants, stitched fibers and uniform rows of colored tiles eng…