Collins Road Theatres was positively buzzing the weekend of April 4-6, and not just because A Minecraft Movie had premiered. The Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival (CRIFF) returned to screen a new slate of original, Midwest-made films inside an unpresuming Marion shopping center. As the lights dimmed for my first film of the fest, I […]
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‘Tag’ — a ridiculous pretext for a serious project
You have seen a version of this movie before, but American cinema in the summertime is nothing if not generous. If you need to step out from the pool for a few hours to watch Tag in air-conditioned comfort, then by all means do it.
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Rural Route Film Festival’s ‘Very Best Of’ tour rolls into Cedar Rapids
Elkader native Alan Webber is back in Iowa for two presentations of his Rural Route Film Festival — tonight, April 19 at CSPS Hall in Cedar Rapids (tickets are $10) and Sunday, April 22 at Luther College in Decorah, as part of the Oneota Film Festival.
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Will Braden brings the best cat videos to Cedar Rapids
Watching cat videos on the internet — whether done earnestly or ironically — has long been something of a private endeavor. Sure, you might share your favorites, but odds are you haven’t been gathering your friends together for mass viewings of feline hijinks. That can all change this Saturday, Aug. 19 as the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library presents CatVideoFest.
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Film based on Merritt’s play ‘The Summerland Project’ to premiere in CR on August 4
Rob Merritt, well known throughout the region’s arts, journalism and nonprofit sectors, established himself as a playwright in 2011 when The Summerland Project premiered as part of Theatre Cedar Rapids’ Underground New Play Festival. The play, about a woman whose consciousness is transferred to a robotic replica of her body, was so well received that […]
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Cedar Rapids: Start your phone cameras — the 48 Hour Phones Only Film Fest kicks off today
48 Hour Phones Only Film Fest Geonetric (415 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids) — Friday, Feb. 17 at 5 p.m. It’ll only last two days — 48 hours exactly. It won’t be a lights-camera-action affair, either; rather, it will consist of a frenetic weekend involving built-in flashlights, 1,080 pixels recorded at 30-60 frames per second […]
