Brock Wilbur
Articles
Letter from the Editor: And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Spinning Tree Theatre’s musical adaptation of Bubble Boy makes for oddly prescient cultural commentary
honeybee bring saturn return EP to NKC Fall Fest on Saturday afternoon
Musical Theater Heritage’s Sweeney Todd leaves rough edges on a bloodless Sondheim staging
Electric Poe spotlights R.H. Wilhoit’s sinister signature in latest cemetery staging
Parker Finn’s Smile 2 is a claustrophobic masterclass with Naomi Scott at centerstage
Orrin Grey’s Glowing in the Dark collects a decade of critical writing about eerie, uncanny cinema
Abby Olcese’s essay collection Films for All Seasons syncs cinematic blockbusters and deep-cuts to explorations of belief
Robert DeLong, Atlas Genius co-headline Madrid for rock rave in unfortunately intimate show
Trump origin biopic The Apprentice is a gorgeously made exposé that exposes nothing new
Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night is a self-mythologizing tome that insists upon itself. It’s still the best possible version of an unavoidable film.
Robert DeLong shuffles us through his Playlist of Doom ahead of Madrid gig
DeLong co-headlines Oct. 7 alongside Atlas Genius, just after unleashing his first full-length album since 2021.
Ferocious feline felony body-horror flick Booger marks the revenge of childless cat ladies
If you like piña coladas and gettin' cat in your brain...
Letter from the Editor: Diagrams and charts mending broken hearts
Hitchcockian thriller The Wasp turns a muder-for-hire thriller into a crooked extrapolation of how the body keeps score
KCAT’s Dial M For Murder turns up the tension on a brisk ‘true crime’ precursor
Cage the Elephant’s return from five year detour finds the rock act menacingly mature
The Starlight show featured support from Young the Giant, Bakar, and Willow Avalon.
Letter from the Editor: En Garde with the Off-Guard
Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms is a transgressive, tension wrought serial killer cyber-thriller
Pandemic pod-people horror-romance The Becomers goes full GooAnon
I am only writing about Eli Roth’s Borderlands to save you $15
Turbo Kid filmmakers take a fresh bite out of ‘living impaired’ genre with We Are Zombies
Crystal Quade captures Democratic nomination for Missouri governor
Letter from the Editor: Rise and fall of a Midwest princess
Damian Mc Carthy’s Oddity curses curios for cat-and-mouse revenge
A Quiet Place: Day One is unexpectedly human for a prequel monster feature
The Flaming Lips ego trip on blissed-out fatalism at Uptown Yoshimi anniversary show
Letter from the Editor: Desperate journalist in ongoing meaningful review situation
Hatchet Job: KC’s official cast recording appoints us winter caretakers of The Shining Opera
Ariane Louis-Seize’s Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person is 2024’s most charming teen rebellion flick
Letter from the Editor: We found each other in The Glow
The Drunken Worm returns to its roots in re-revamped 39th Street location
The Worm begins soft opening events ahead of a June 10 launch party.
KCRep’s Little Shop of Horrors devours audience with unyielding musical mutilation
I Saw the TV Glow drizzles VHS sleepovers and Buffy re-runs over an existential crisis
The filmmaker opts for a "nowstalgia"—where it's fun to look back on the past, but there's no desire to return to that time and place to live forever; no concept that 1996 was the height of existence. Whatever Stranger Things wants to make you feel about an era's fandoms, this is the opposite.
Letter from the Editor: Heat Vision and the annual Summer Guide issue
Caroline Rose nails state trivia, lives dream of alien abduction at sold-out recordBar revival
Sasquatch Sunset is a beautiful nature doc about a family of bigfoots just trying to make it work
Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s world-premiere cast recording of The Shining has an axe to grind
