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The ROCK OF AGES Boulevard Drive-In Party is 9:00pm June 14 at the Boulevard Drive-In. Before the movie, an “air guitar showdown” will be held at the drive-in and broadcast live on the big screen!

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Well, that couldn’t have gone much better! Last night at the Screenland Crossroads, Scene Stealers and Lost in Reviews presented An Evening of 8-Bit Featuring Scott Pilgrim vs. The World!  A sold-out Kansas City crowd drank plenty of Tallgrass 8-Bit Pale Ale, partook in an 8-bit videogame tournament, and checked out the awesome 8-bit/geek-inspired art gallery. Right before the main attraction, the […]

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The whole week at the Kansas City Film Festival has been a whirlwind of excitement and the final day was no exception. Eric went to the action comedy ‘Opération Casablanca’ while Trey screened the anticipated ‘The Flowers of War.’ Read their reviews of each film.

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Day four came and went without any interference from tornado-palooza 2012. Trey Hock caught the Sundance shorts and I caught Chel White‘s film Bucksville. Take it away, Trey: The Sundance Film Festival Showcase did an incredible job of balancing shorts that offer laugh-out-loud humor with those that serve up emotionally driven drama. Each of the […]

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The busiest day of the festival drew more than the standard filmmakers, students and critics, as casual and curious fans showed up for some of the major screenings such as Flowers Of War starring Christian Bale and the outstanding documentary Corporate FM. Check back tomorrow for Trey Hock’s review of Flowers Of War, but in the meantime here’s […]

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Day two of the 2012 Kansas City Film Festival got started in a big way with the French film Intouchables, which follows a physically disabled member of the French nobility and his untraditional caretaker. Due to scheduling conflicts neither Trey Hock nor myself were able to attend the screening, opting instead to this Saturday’s showing at 1:15 […]

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With the first day of the AMC Theatres Kansas City FilmFest over with, the year’s proceedings are off to a great start. The festival unofficially launched at 4:30 p.m.with Piran — Pirano, the music documentary  Andrew Bird: Fever Year and part one of the local shorts program “People Like Us,” all leading up to the official kick-off with Nailbiter. […]

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The 16th annual AMC Theatres Kansas City FilmFest starts on Wednesday and Scene-Stealers will be there to cover it! From Wednesday April 11 through Sunday April 15, a wide variety of short films, documentaries, international films, and independent feature-length movies will screen at the AMC Mainstreet 6, the AMC Ward Parkway 14 and the Atkins […]

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…and 15 that REALLY suck. Let’s be frank. The track record of good fourth movies in a franchise isn’t good. To prove this point, we have two Top 10s on this subject and over 50% of each of them (which rank the best, or at least the ones that didn’t suck too terribly bad), are not movies anyone can really truly stand behind.

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Did Edgar Wright give us permission and then RT our event page for An Evening of 8-Bit Featuring ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. The World’? He sure as hell did! Scene-Stealers and Lost in Reviews have joined forces for a one-night-only special event of art, rock, and videogames at Screenland Crossroads 4/20/2012. Get tix now!

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As for The Hunger Games, and LionsGate’s early-spring gamble, things might just work out. The kiddies and adults with middle school reading levels are apparently turning out in droves, and have proven those wily execs at LionsGate correct.

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Top 10 Best Movie Brothers

by Eric Melin on March 13, 2012

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This list of the Top 10 Best Movie Brothers dovetails nicely with ‘Jeff, Who Lives at Home,’ directed by the Duplass brothers and coming out this weekend, starring Jason Segel and Ed Helms as brothers.

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The old cliche goes: “The book is always better then the movie.” But this is not always true. Sometimes the movie is better than the book. Enjoy the Top 10 Movies Better Than the Book.

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The 2012 Kansas City Japanese Film Festival is showcasing some of the best in classic and contemporary Japanese films this weekend, and all proceeds go to the tsunami earthquake relief fund. Yasujirō Ozu’s amazing Tokyo Story and the 2011 Academy Award-nominated short The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom are just two of the films showing March 10-11.

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We had a fantastic time and Alex Lamb, Dustin Schirer, and Sarah Cunnick got 17 correct on their Oscar ballot, beating out everybody else as the first-place winners! Nick Colby and Josh Dubois got 0 and 1 correct respectively to win the coveted Jack and Jill t-shirts and movie posters for Toby Keith’s Beer for my Horses.

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