Saturday Night Cinema
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
One Night In Miami
Commentary from Movie Maverick Mike
One Night in Hollywood
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Although we’re not fans of fictional history, our feature “One Night in Miami” is a great showcase for two up-and-coming filmmakers - actor Kingsley Ben-Adir, and actress / director Regina King.
As highlighted by your host, King got her start in movies in 1991 with “Boyz in the Hood”, and played key roles in “Jerry Mcquire”, “Enemy of the State”, the reimaged “Watchmen” series, and more recently, Darren Aronosky’s “Caught Stealing”. She started directing for television in 2013, and our feature is her 3rd major film.
English actor Ben-Adir has been active on stage and screen since 2011, and impressed in two recent, high profile but polar opposite roles in 2023: Marvel’s “Secret Invasion”, where he played a villainous alien, and blockbuster “Barbie”, where he had a small role as a sycophantic “Ken”. A versatile actor, Ben-Adir recently played the title character in “Bob Marley: One Love”
King will return to the director’s chair this year with “Bitter Root”, based on the comic series which sounds crazy; according to IMDb, it’s set in 1920’s Harlem, where “a family of monster hunters operate to stop a portal to the netherworld being opened”.
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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.
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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: @palealaskan
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2/07/26 | One Night in Miami |
2/14/26 | Casablanca |
2/21/26 | Much Ado About Nothing |