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Zak Hilditch’s We Bury the Dead brings clever contributions to fourth wave zombie cinema

Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” nominated in eight categories, received five awards at the 60th Annual James Loutzenhiser Awards, voted on by the members of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle. These included Best Film, the Robert Altman Award for Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Sean Penn. Director Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” received three awards, including...

Courtesy IFC Director/screenwriter Julia Jackson opens the curtain this weekend, nationwide, on a film that delivers on a genre I didn’t know I was missing. Based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel, 100 Nights of Hero follows a world of storybook players, built on a civilization that worships a bird-god from the sky, and manifests his will into a cruel ideology....

Photo by Don Ipock I love the Unicorn Theatre when it takes chances. As is our social contract, their latest is a world premiere of a show I couldn’t expect to see anywhere else. The last calendar year has seen the Midtown venue deliver on some of KC’s best work, and unfortunately, artistic director Ernie Nolan is overseeing some of...

This month's Letter from the Editor touches on all of the winners in our annual Best of Kansas City 2025 issue of The Pitch.

The JonBenét Game. // Photo by Don Ipock Look, no one is more suspicious than me when a piece of media comes along that promises to challenge our societal ideas about True Crime. I came up in the stand-up comedy world alongside a few of the Big Names that would go on to make careers out of repeating Wikipedia entries...

If you’re reading this, I just want to say ‘thank you’ for being a reader of The Pitch. We all appreciate you, and our team gets a bit emotional about our readers… especially around the holidays. And what is Halloween if not our biggest holiday? What’s scarier than being a journalist? Only a couple of things. Here’s my list of a...

It is rare these days for me to encounter a film I wish I could live inside. That’s probably on me, choosing to mostly watch dreadful horror or terse thrillers or whatever dogshit Ryan Murphy has served up this quarter. Boys Go to Jupiter, currently playing at Screenland Armour and coming soon to VOD, is a rare highlight for me in...

Courtesy IFC Films Earlier in the year, Good Boy got announced and immediately filled my friend group with equal parts demand to see it immediately… and of course, dread. A horror film told from a dog’s perspective hooked us. Who wouldn’t want to see that? Well, I suppose, most people. Considering how things tend to go for dogs in horror films,...

Soccer fans react to the official FIFA World Cup host city announcement on Thursday, June 16, 2022, at the Kansas City Power and Light District in Kansas City. (Zachary Linhares/The Beacon) It’s a good idea to make dinner reservations for parties of more than six people. It allows the restaurant to be staffed and prepared for larger-than-usual groups. Well, FIFA...