A wild ride in the Wild West
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Local filmmakers will celebrate the culmination of more than a year’s worth of work with the premiere of Missouri Breaks: The Ballad of Missouri Bill…
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Local filmmakers will celebrate the culmination of more than a year’s worth of work with the premiere of Missouri Breaks: The Ballad of Missouri Bill…
By Reader Staff
What can a story tell us beyond its basic details? That’s the overarching philosophical exploration at play in The Shape of Trees, a locally filmed, produced …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Tim Bangle and his prolific troupe of local actors are unstoppable. Following up on the success of their 2022 debut sci-fi film The Fade: Resistance…
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
After the leaves fall and the first traces of white are seen on the mountaintops, a few hundred locals gather at the Panida Theater to …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
When you get the cast of the upcoming student-made film The Fade: Resistance in a room together, magic happens.
Led by Tim Bangle, of The …
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