Brock Wilbur
Editor-in-Chief
Articles
Kansas City FilmFest International announces 2025 winners from features, shorts, and homegrown cinema
April 1, 2020
Letter from the Editor: More Heisenberg, less HindenburgApril 1, 2020
Unicorn Theatre’s fire work stages dystopian collision between Charles Schulz and child labor Pulling from Mad Max, Oliver Twist, and Disco Elysium equally, you'd be remiss to not catch one of the final performances of "You're a Good Comrade, Charlie Brown!"
April 1, 2020
A24’s Death of a Unicorn stars Jenna Ortega in a fantasy that’s less Lisa Frank, more Jurassic Park
April 1, 2020
KCAT delivers dogmatic Doubt staged inside United Church of Christ
April 1, 2020
Clever and heartwarming, MTH’s musical Little Women allows Alcott’s prose to fly
April 1, 2020
KC Rep’s Broke-ology is a graduate course in chemistry, not finance Late playwright Nathan Louis Jackson's KC-based play serves as staging ground for a stellar cast but falters in its own themes.
April 1, 2020
Loud Light Kansas Politics Recap: More anti-trans bills, the missing budget, and fake election conspiracies
April 1, 2020
Training A.I. to replace us takes centerstage in Unicorn’s world premiere of Doctor Moloch
April 1, 2020
Letter from the Editor: Touched starved on Mars
April 1, 2020
Loud Light Kansas Politics Recap: Kobach’s strange opinion, election bills, and ‘midnight rule’ abolished
April 1, 2020
In this tender French art film, the server shutdown of a multiplayer videogame sparks a criminal romance Altered Innocence's Eat the Night has a limited screening this week at Screenland Armour.
April 1, 2020
Kansas City Film Critics Circle announce 59th James Loutzenhiser awards for cinematic excellence KCFCC celebrated the best of 2024 including The Substance, I Saw the TV Glow, David Dastmalchian, and more.
April 1, 2020
Letter from the Editor: A simple plan
April 1, 2020
ChiefsAholic: A Wolf in Chief’s Clothing follows devastating addiction framed as football fandom"Does America love bank robbers? Well, they love a good story."
April 1, 2020
Lyric Opera’s The Barber of Seville stages a pitch-perfect rendition of the genre’s touchstone
April 1, 2020
Letter from the Editor: Return the gift
April 1, 2020
The Unicorn offers up Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big KC MO Christmas Show as holiday hooliganism on your way to the bar
April 1, 2020
Billie Eilish escapes containment at T-Mobile with sick day scrappiness
April 1, 2020
’90s basic cable late-night thrillers get raunchy resurrection in Dream Team
April 1, 2020
Daisy Ridley’s mean little neo-noir Magpie forgets to give its characters any character
April 1, 2020
David St. Hubbins blesses 2024 Thundergong! benefit for Steps of Faith foundation
April 1, 2020
Letter from the Editor: And I do my little turn on the catwalkApril 1, 2020
Spinning Tree Theatre’s musical adaptation of Bubble Boy makes for oddly prescient cultural commentary
April 1, 2020
honeybee bring saturn return EP to NKC Fall Fest on Saturday afternoon
April 1, 2020
Musical Theater Heritage’s Sweeney Todd leaves rough edges on a bloodless Sondheim staging
April 1, 2020
Electric Poe spotlights R.H. Wilhoit’s sinister signature in latest cemetery stagingApril 1, 2020
Parker Finn’s Smile 2 is a claustrophobic masterclass with Naomi Scott at centerstage
April 1, 2020
Orrin Grey’s Glowing in the Dark collects a decade of critical writing about eerie, uncanny cinema
April 1, 2020
Abby Olcese’s essay collection Films for All Seasons syncs cinematic blockbusters and deep-cuts to explorations of belief
April 1, 2020
Robert DeLong, Atlas Genius co-headline Madrid for rock rave in unfortunately intimate show
April 1, 2020
Trump origin biopic The Apprentice is a gorgeously made exposé that exposes nothing new
April 1, 2020
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.
April 1, 2020
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.
April 1, 2020
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...
April 1, 2020
Letter from the Editor: Diagrams and charts mending broken hearts
April 1, 2020
Hitchcockian thriller The Wasp turns a muder-for-hire thriller into a crooked extrapolation of how the body keeps score
April 1, 2020
KCAT’s Dial M For Murder turns up the tension on a brisk ‘true crime’ precursor
April 1, 2020
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.
April 1, 2020
Letter from the Editor: En Garde with the Off-Guard
April 1, 2020
