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
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Commentary from Movie Maverick Mike
The Greatest Story Ever Released
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It’s hard to imagine in this age of instant, disposable video entertainment that, back in the Old Days, epic movies roamed your local cinema for months.
Bound by the limits of physical film, major Hollywood productions like “The Greatest Story Ever Told” went from town to town like a lethargic circus, taking months to leave the big American cities.
Our feature debuted in New York in February 1965, with additional showings in Los Angeles and Miami (the largest markets at the time). It got to Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, and Boston in March; and then spread across the U.S., Canada, and internationally throughout the year, as long as the film stock survived. (Less popular movies were tossed in the bin).
The film was trimmed 28 minutes before playing in Washington (D.C.) - based on audience reaction, we’re guessing - and further shortened when it came back to Chicago in 1967; 2 years later.
Modern movies like “Avatar” or “Gladiator” can play for weeks around the world; but it's a testament to the craftsmanship of the time that these “sword and scandal” epics were viewed over and over by audiences throughout the year.
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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.
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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.
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Upcoming Movies
4/4/26 | The Greatest Story Ever Told |
4/11/26 | Eight Men Out |
4/18/26 | Gorillas in the Mist |
4/25/26 | Ben Hur (1959) |
5/2/26 | Being The Ricardos |
5/9/26 | The Outsiders |
5/16/26 | National Velvet |
5/23/26 | Anchors Aweigh |
6/13/26 | My Week with Marilyn |
6/20/26 | Father of the Bride |
6/27/26 | Spaceballs |