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Featuring little-known films and blockbusters alike, Saturday Night Cinema has been entertaining KSPS audiences since 1985. Enjoy dramas, comedies, mysteries, musicals and more!

This Week's Movie

Escape From Alcatraz

Commentary from Movie Maverick Mike

Island over Troubled Waters
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There’s only 1 location in San Francisco that’s been featured in Major Motion Picture Productions more than Alcatraz, and that’s the Golden Gate Bridge - but our feature is about the “Rock” island, so we’ll focus on that.

Alcatraz is no longer home to a formidable prison, but remains so in pop culture to this day, due to films like “Escape from Alcatraz” and others:
features like “Birdman of Alcatraz” (1962), “Six Against the Rock” (1987), and “Half Past Dead” (2002)
Michael Bay’s action film “The Rock” features a stylised version of the prison in 1996
Mentioned in films like “All Dogs go to Heaven”, “Point Bank”, “Star Trek into Darkness”, “Dirty Harry; The Enforcer” “X-Men: The Last Stand”, and “Meteor Storm” (??)
“Several “made for TV” movies such as “Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story” and “Murder in the First”

You can travel back to pre-tourist shop Alcatraz this weekend on Saturday Night Cinema.


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Remembering Shaun Higgins

We remember Shaun O'l Higgins, long-time member of the Community Advisory Board and Saturday Night Cinema host, who passed away unexpectedly on October 1, 2024. KSPS PBS is stronger today because of Shaun's dedication and vision. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.

Mike Hoff

Mike has been writing about movies and Hollywood for over 30 years, including radio, TV, newspapers and online. He appears regularly as a movie reviewer on CTV Morning Live in Calgary, and has even appeared on CTV's Fame Factor. He's been a screenwriter, extra and lecturer throughout Alberta and Washington.

Mike's love of movies comes down to a few key moments - being allowed to stay up late as a child to watch James Bond in "You Only Live Twice" on TV, watching "Star Wars" age 12 with a HUGH bucket of popcorn, and seeing a sneak preview of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" when no-one knew that it would become THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME - maybe the only time in history only 20 people were in the theatre for this film. Also, "Aliens" on a cool July day downtown, "Rear Window" at a repertoire theater, and tearing up as a young man watching "Fiddler on the Roof" at a film-club presentation in Tacoma.

You can follow Movie Maverick Mike on Instagram or Facebook

Ryan Tucker

Ryan Tucker started from humble beginnings in south central Washington. He was only 8-years-old when he was given his first camera and began his journey into the celluloid. Making short films in the backyard with his younger brother, Ryan quickly discovered Dogma filmmaking (accidentally and unaware of what that even meant).

By 20, Ryan was a self-made “hundred-aire” and decided to spend a ton of money he didn't have on "film school" in California. Once he exhausted all financial options, Ryan returned home to beautiful Spokane. He is now a videographer and editor for Spokane Public Library and hosts a monthly live talk/sketch comedy show at Central Library called Lilac City Live.

Today, you can usually find him collecting vintage video formats such as VHS, Laserdisc, CED, Beta. He relives his favorite childhood movies with all five of his hilarious, sweet children and poorly explains plots to movies to his devastatingly beautiful life partner who made his real-life movie come true.

Mikayla Daniels

Mikayla Daniels is an Alaskan born and raised writer and filmmaker. She holds her MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College and her BA in film from Eastern Washington University.

In 2018 her feature script “Wingman Lost” was chosen as an Athena List Finalist and she wrote an essay that has been published in the new book “When Women Wrote Hollywood”.

Mikayla is a regular contributor to the book reviews section of “The Journal of Screenwriting” and writes TV/Movie reviews and entertainment news for Netflixlife.com. She also is regularly invited to sit on film and writing panels and to judge and screen for film festivals worldwide.

Follow Mikayla on Facebook and Twitter: @palealaskan

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