In a move sure to inspire much rejoicing (and, from your less-cinephilic friends, much shrugging), Alamo Drafthouse has just announced that March 5 will henceforth be known as “Reel Film Day,” a national celebration of 35mm celluloid. (Written cardinally, March 5 is 3.5—get it?) Partnering with Kodak, the theater chain will ring in the holiday…

  We’d like to thank Visit KC, Kansas City’s convention and visitors association, and its KANSAS CITY FILM OFFICE (KC Film), attracting film, television and media (including new media) production to the Kansas City area. Each week, audience members can enjoy a different exploration of Kansas City locations, thanks to Visit KC’s Kansas City Film Office…

  CinemaKC Premieres Episode 2 of Season 6! New Look, New Format, New Time Premiering at 10:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, on KCPT-1; repeat early Wednesday morning, Feb 1 at 12:30 a.m. on KCPT-1 . Featuring “META, Episode 1” by Todd Norris; “Sketches” by Savannah Rodgers; “MOVIE TRIP” featuring Theresa O’Leary; KCAI Spotlight “Aime mio…

Attention filmmakers: we invite you to submit your work for consideration for the sixth season of CinemaKC. Viewership has grown dramatically in recent years; and to address our expanding audience, we’re extending the submission range to the entirety of Missouri, Kansas, and beyond. The submission deadline is August 1, 2016 by 11:59 PM CDT. There is no submission…

Attention filmmakers: we invite you to submit your work for consideration for the sixth season of CinemaKC. Viewership has grown dramatically in recent years; and to address our expanding audience, we’re extending the submission range to the entirety of Missouri, Kansas, and beyond. The submission deadline is July 18, 2016 by 11:59 PM CDT. There is no submission…

Movie theaters are warzones this time of year. After the opening salvos of The Jungle Book and Captain America: Civil War, the summer-movie season is in full swing; and there’s little room left at cineplexes as those two juggernauts duke it out for the top spot. But a few smaller releases and revivals are seeing…

Around midnight last Halloween at the Alamo Mainstreet, Ryan Davis took the stage to announce the night’s headliner. It was late. Attendees had already cheered along Paul Rudd in his debut feature, Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers; cringed through the black-hole inevitability of home-invasion provocation The Strangers; and tripped on the color-porn fantasia…

Stanley Kubrick leaves this writer cold. But for plenty of movie fans, that’s the point: his clinical, calculating provocations are perennial favorites. Those on Kubrick’s wavelength can wallow in the chill this weekend when the Cinemark 20 in Merriam screens a double feature of A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clockwork remains an…