Brock Wilbur

I Saw the TV Glow. // Courtesy A24 Jane Schoenbrun’s premiere with A24 has been one of our most anticipated feature films, leaving us dangling in wait for several years since the first announcement. The writer-director’s breakthrough flick We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is one of those difficult-to-describe pieces of magic—a horror isolation adventure born of the pandemic,...

Belger Arts and The Kansas City Museum collaborated with a team of glassblowers to create a chandelier to highlight the KC glassblowers.

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After 45 years, artistic director Cynthia Levin will be stepping down and Ernie Nolan will take over the role for the Kansas City theatre.

This month’s Letter from the Editor pays a nod to our Music Editor Nick Spacek—who continues to raise the bar for music coverage in KC.

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Borderlands, I guess. // Courtesy Lionsgate Films I was going to take the easy out. Just publish the words “Shit Sandwich” in this space, embed a trailer, and call it a day. It would’ve matched the film’s level of effort to give it two words in return. It would have also been appropriate to just re-use a pop-culture reference and...

Orrin Grey lives for horror. Not just the horror of modern existence, but the horror of life itself. It’s easy to be the kind of person who appreciates big jumpscares or killer clowns, but there’s a real talent in the mind that chooses to derive joy from the terror of the minutiae. This eye for detail has helped Grey become...

What’s your favorite Christmas movie? Easter movie? Pentecost movie? Casual viewers and movie buffs alike have favorite movies to watch at certain times of the year. But for film critic Abby Olcese, movies with spiritual themes aren’t just limited to the holiday season. As our Film Editor at The Pitch, we can attest to that firsthand. The way she’ll program...

Joshua Johnson as Jimmy Livingston (the Bubble Boy) and Jordan Rosenwald as Chloe Molinski. // Photo by Micah Thompson/Spinning Tree Theatre If you caught the 2001 Jake Gyllenhaal film Bubble Boy, there’s a better than non-zero chance you haven’t thought about it since. The cartoonishly over-the-top story about a boy allergic to the air is probably more closely associated with the...