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.

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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 was born and raised in Alaska and moved to the Spokane area in the early 2000s. She holds a BA in Film and an MFA in TV and Screenwriting, as well as dozens of awards for screenwriting, directing, and even an Emmy for post production editing!

She has previously written for Netflix Life, The Journal of Screenwriting, Harness Magazine, and more. Her essay on early screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas is in the book “When Women Wrote Hollywood” (2018) and her feature script “Wingman Lost” was a 2018 Athena List Finalist-an annual list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood that feature a woman in leadership. 

Mikayla has spent years as a judge and screener for various film festivals and screenwriting competitions throughout the world, and has enjoyed seeing the creativity that comes from indie artists and writers. Those filmmakers continue to inspire her as she writes and directs her own work.

A lifelong movie fan and writer, she joined KSPS Saturday Night Cinema in 2016 and hopes to keep doing so for many years to come.