Take a seat: Oppenheim schedules ‘Primetime’
“Primetime” pulsates with a seedy and saturated energy befitting its 2006 setting and subject.
Read Moreby Greg Carlson | Sep 28, 2026
“Primetime” pulsates with a seedy and saturated energy befitting its 2006 setting and subject.
Read Moreby John Showalter | Sep 22, 2026
After four years away, Randal Black brings Grindflicks back with a free “Total Action Cinema” night Sept. 25 at The Bomb Shelter in Fargo.
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by Greg Carlson | Sep 21, 2026
HPR film critic Greg Carlson interviewed Chris Newberry about his latest feature, “Echoes in the Night: The Search for Jacob Wetterling.”
Read Moreby Blaise Balas | Sep 19, 2026
Wes Anderson’s “The Royal Tenenbaums” turns 25. Blaise Balas on the film’s sitcom bones ahead of its Sept. 22 Fargo Theatre screening.
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by Greg Carlson | Sep 15, 2026
Sequels like “Practical Magic 2” are expected to be cinematic comfort food, a recipe dependent on the reuse of many of the ingredients that viewers love in the originals.
Read Moreby Greg Carlson | Sep 8, 2026
Waters strikes a fine balance between a traditional biographical account and an artistically-minded embrace of words.
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by Greg Carlson | Sep 1, 2026
“Finding Emily” won’t threaten “When Harry Met Sally” as the modern-era gold standard for the friends-to-lovers rom-com, but the adorable Rice and Fearn play the angles.
Read Moreby Greg Carlson | Aug 27, 2026
Schoenbrun’s follow-up to “I Saw the TV Glow” deftly blends comedy, eroticism, gore and VHS-era nostalgia into an intoxicating brew of deeply personal storytelling.
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by Greg Carlson | Aug 17, 2026
An inexplicable cross-time event drops a family struggling with internal domestic peril into a prehistoric bubble of run-for-your-life peril.
Read Moreby Greg Carlson | Aug 10, 2026
We land in a version of America in which the government has implemented a prohibition on unmarried intercourse for all but twelve free-for-all hours on a single night of the year.
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by Blaise Balas | Aug 3, 2026
“The Philadelphia Story” is one of the only screwball comedies to actually deal with the real world repercussions of its plot points.
Read Moreby Greg Carlson | Aug 2, 2026
“I Want Your Sex” draws heavily from the filmmaker’s love for classic screwball comedy and talent for button pushing.
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by Greg Carlson | Jul 27, 2026
Talented filmmaker Sophy Romvari creates an extraordinary and extraordinarily cinematic evocation of memory and grief.
Read Moreby Greg Carlson | Jul 20, 2026
Working from a script by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, Olivia Wilde puts her own stamp on Cesc Gay’s play “Los vecinos de arriba.”
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by Blaise Balas | Jul 20, 2026
Many people cite “Back to the Future” as their favorite movie. It is, as has been the case for a majority of the films in the Fargo Theatre’s Centennial Film Series so far, a classic for a reason.
Read Moreby Greg Carlson | Jul 13, 2026
The provocatively titled documentary “Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story” educates viewers with a history lesson covering the wild high seas of a bygone era of personal media-making through the eyes of one colorful veteran and pioneer.
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by Greg Carlson | Jul 6, 2026
Alex Ross Perry’s “Videoheaven” is “a nearly 3-hour long analysis of the rise and fall of brick and mortar movie rental.”
Read Moreby Greg Carlson | Jul 1, 2026
For the devoted readers held in thrall to the stirring and poignant source material, the movie stings with disappointment…
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by Blaise Balas | Jun 21, 2026
Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is among the most famous stories of the American counterculture. Adapted for the screen by director Milos Forman in 1975, the movie version won five Oscars and cemented itself as an immediate classic.
Read Moreby Greg Carlson | Jun 8, 2026
High Plains Reader film critic Greg Carlson chatted with actor Stephen Tobolowsky ahead of his appearance in Fargo.
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by Blaise Balas | Apr 14, 2026
“Fargo” endures as an American masterpiece and has not lost its unsettling appeal over the past three decades.
Read Moreby Greg Carlson | Apr 13, 2026
HPR film editor Greg Carlson spoke with “Fargo” actor Peter Stormare ahead of his “return” visit to Fargo.
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by Greg Carlson | Mar 2, 2026
The great documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras had to work diligently to convince Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh to be the subject of one of her films.
Read Moreby Reagan Mueller | Feb 23, 2026
The 26th edition of the Fargo Film Festival provides a beacon of warmth for the FM community and beyond. Beginning March 17 and concluding March 21, the Fargo Theatre — celebrating its 100th year — will host the popular event.
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