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
Anchors Aweigh
Commentary from Movie Maverick Mike
Aweigh with Disbelief
#kspscinema #moviemaverickmike
Our feature “Anchors Aweigh” was one of the first to (willingly) show the audience “behind the scenes” on the movie making process - specifically, Metro Goldwyn Mayer soundstages in Hollywood.
I think there’s always a risk in showing people “how the sausage is made” - Hollywood of old was a purveyor of magic, and it may have frustrated and disillusioned movie fans to see how the trick is performed. (Star Grace Kelly would return to this viewpoint in the classic “Singing in the Rain”.)
It’s a method that's tempting to producers - after-all, any film set within a studio doesn't need civic permission to shoot, or roadblocking of streets and onlookers. However, shooting on the lot is not as cheap as it may seem, as you’re lighting the set twice; and some studio backlots were expressly built to NOT support a crane or lighting rig or wind machine in the back.
Moviegoers might be surprised - or not - to see "behind the scenes” in modern productions, where so many are shot with green-screens or in “the volume”, the volumetric studio popularized by Disney series “The Mandalorian”. We’re certain contemporary film-fans would be disappointed to see how much Spider-Man, Deadpool, and various knights and witches are actually played by stuntmen and CGI.
www.facebook.com/moviemaverickmike
New Host, Cecelia Sutton
Cecelia is a Spokane native, proudly working at a local nonprofit organization while building momentum in her career as an artist. Cecelia is an avid performer, having participated in the community theater scene regularly since 2020. She made her debut with Bright Comet Theater’s "Lord of The Flies" and has been a regular at Stage Left Theater ever since. Cecelia’s love for film started by inheriting her mom’s love of Tim Burton movies, and her choices in art and theater are heavily inspired by the obscure, the surreal and the macabre. Cecelia is proud to be joining the "Saturday Night Cinema" team and looks forward to being exposed to new films through this opportunity.
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 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.
Ignite Your Saturday Nights
Celebrate Quality Cinema & Enrich Our Communities
Upcoming Movies
5/23/26 | Anchors Aweigh |
6/13/26 | My Week with Marilyn |
6/20/26 | Father of the Bride |
6/27/26 | Spaceballs |