Finally, a flick that can please every Valentine’s Day moviegoer: those who hate the lovey-dovey holiday, those who adore it, those who want romance in their Valentine’s Day movies and those who prefer their gushing more gory. Every section of that particular Venn diagram can come away satisfied from “Heart Eyes,” a fun and irreverent seasonal slasher from director Josh Ruben.
The last three times Jan Kraybill’s long-running annual Super Bowl Sunday organ concert took place in front of a live audience, the Chiefs won later that day.
Never fear, “Dog Man” is here – to save your families from the doldrums of January moviegoing.
Since his flirtation with retirement about a decade ago, filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has been working at an almost feverish pace, cranking out film after film, usually genre exercises made swiftly, with light, adaptable technology such as iPhones (“Unsane,” “High Flying Bird”). His latest film, “Presence,” is another cinematic experiment, a ghost story seen from the point of view of, well, the ghost.
The I Love Independence film festival at Englewood Arts Center, 10901 E. Winner Road, has been rescheduled for 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 22.
Taking the idea of work-life balance to extremes, the sardonic and surrealist thriller “Severance” on Apple TV+ envisions a dystopian corporate world in which employees of a company called Lumon Industries have a chip implanted in their brains that severs their memory in two. At work, their “innie” version has no knowledge of their life or even personal history outside the office; they are simply “at work” all the time.
What: City Theatre of Independence presents the murder mystery play “Murder on the Nile” by Agatha Christie, directed by Jack McCord and produced by special arrangement with Samuel French International.
A recent episode of “Landman” — the latest Western soap opera dreamed up by “Yellowstone” co-creator Taylor Sheridan — was packed with thrilling interpersonal drama in Texas oil and gas country.
Winners in the inaugural I Love Independence film contest included first-time filmmakers and at least one professional.
For 40 years, Tony Stevens has been a heart-and-soul member of KFKF-FM in Kansas City.