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09/2025

Fayetteville Film Festival returns after a ‘gap year’

Meeting Wallace Shawn at Arkansas Comic Con

Arkansas Bigfoot Conference brings out the believers and skeptics

September offering pair of film festivals

08/2025

Queer film festival secures new venue

Filmland 2025 — from the ordinary to the bizarre

‘Fright Night’ star reflects on cult classic

‘Weird Al’ performs a sell-out

Arkansan discusses role in horror comedy ‘Ick’

07/2025

‘Encampments’ documentary to be shown at Ron Robinson Theater Aug. 2

Arkansas packed with film festivals fueled by community

Arkansas filmmakers make ‘Pigeon Tongue’ in Romania

Terror Tuesday returns to Robinson

06/2025

Bentonville festival embraces ‘homegrown’ films

‘Beatrice’ to premiere at Bentonville

El Dorado Film Festival’s staff make it so special

Ex-Arkansan’s film ‘Throuple’ streaming now

05/2025

Month of June provides a cultural counterpunch

‘The Twin’ offers fresh take on the horror film

Sal Vulcano, co-star of “Impractical Jokers,” brings stand-up act to Little Rock

Ex-Arkansan discusses screenplay he co-wrote for ‘Shadow Force’ film

‘Southern Fried Lies’: Secrets lurk everywhere

Fan explains ‘Minecraft Movie’ tropes

04/2025

May has a full slate for cinema aficionados

Arkansas film scene needs funding

Huw Cordey shows ‘Frozen Worlds’ at UCA

UCA grad students show their thesis short films

03/2025

Film events bloom for area cinephiles

Clinton Center Celebrates Fictional Presidents

UCA graduate releases ‘Canchas’ short

Fan Con Not Like Majority

El Dorado Film Festival steeped in movie magic

02/2025

Experimental filmmaker brings show to Spa city

El Dorado festival bigger, better this year

Filmmakers’ workshop covers filmmaking in 8 days

A love story on pointe — Ballet Arkansas stages Prokofiev’s “Romeo & Juliet” at Robinson

‘Tippi & Barb’ filmmaker to discuss his documentary

01/2025

NWA Leapfest festival proves a success

Society to host Arkansas Showcase at museum

The Last Wholesome Man In The World

Arkansan’s short film ‘A Lien’ Oscar hopeful

Inaugural POV festival successful event

Arkansas film scene rising but held down

12/2024

‘Brutalist’ presents humanity’s failings

Joe Bob Briggs reminisces about the Democrat

Horror movie host Joe Bob Briggs still relevant these days

Searching for DVDs in sale bins

11/2024

Saving short films from obscurity

Arkansas venues host actor talk, film screening

Hot Springs plays host to 13th horror film festival

Documentary festivalgoers see films’ empathy

10/2024

‘Nightmare’ fest with zombies

Bates, Cash statues subjects of new doc

‘Star Trek’ fans strive for utopia

Horror and documentary film festivals in the offing

‘Succubus’ filmmaker discusses his craft

09/2024

State’s comic conclaves serve different purposes

Berryville Film Festival proves a successful first try

Marche farmers raising consciousness as well as flowers

48 Hour Film Project overcomes pandemic

08/2024

Fort Smith film fest too big for four days

Filmland gives local filmmakers chance to network

Reel Queer Film Festival is a success

Filmmaker’s book covers crowdfunding, crowdsourcing

AEW delivers wrestling fans a ‘Dynamite’ show at arena

Ex-LR filmmaker Tara Shaffer gets Sundance fellowship

07/2024

‘Rocky Horror’ initiates virgin attendee

Remembering casting agent Yancey Prosser

Musician leaves that art form for film sound engineering

Local filmmaker Jason Pitts crafts his creation

06/2024

Little Rock native’s film novel take on tired genre

Bentonville Film Festival stresses diversity

Dierks Bentley treats his fans to his highway to hell

Pride month begins with weekend events and gay movies

05/2024

ACS sets state-made film series

Made In Arkansas Film Festival a crowd-pleaser

State’s festival season a treat

Qui Nguyen premieres documentary

‘Sasquatch Sunset’ latest Bigfoot flick to surface

Interest in movies connects mom, son

04/2024

Bugging out with 1950s gigantic insect movies

Arkansas-reared director releases ‘Hard Miles’

Cruising predatory world of festivals

The Joint hosts a screening of ‘Antiquities’

03/2024

Otaku Takeout a bit of Japan right here in Little Rock

‘You Have No Idea’ documentary shows it takes a village

ACS hosts 6-week acting for film, TV class

True/False documentary festival tests stamina

02/2024

Eclipse brings on sci-fi films to savor

Theater chain’s themed popcorn buckets all the rage

Despite injury, El Dorado film festival a success

Bikini Bottom heads to the Super Bowl

El Dorado Film Festival returns after three-year hiatus

Wrestling films’ popularity ebbs … and flows

01/2024

CALS Ron Robinson Theater increases offerings

Q&A with ‘We Have Just Begun’ filmmakers

A New Hope: The beginning of the end for Arkansas Shorts?

A filmmaker’s quest to fulfill her dream

12/2023

‘One False Move’ early Billy Bob Thornton effort

Goodbye, Mr. Clips

11/2023

Low-budget ‘Buck Alamo’ is a worthy gem

Playin’ music of horror movies at fest

Arkansas Cinema Society to premiere ‘Christmas Angel’

‘The Legend of Boggy Creek’ (1972)

10/2023

A tale of three cities

Filmland festival one of three at the same time

Kevin and Michael Bacon on music, razorbacks

Filmland fest features Arkansas film shorts

09/2023

7th annual Spa-Con does right by conventioneers

A guide to fall film festivals in Arkansas

Processed cheese: A fan’s notes on Comic Con

Tenacious D rocks Walmart AMP

State offers incentives to filmmakers

At the Fort Smith International Film Festival

08/2023

Two film festivals — both at the same time

ACS’ Filmland festival features noted filmmaker Craig Brewer

The challenge of running a grassroots film festival

07/2023

Remembering Mike Gunter

‘Bleakness before noon’: Surviving ‘Barbenheimer’

Are we eating our way to the apocalypse?

‘Southern Storytellers’ shines spotlight on the South

Chipping away at the glass ceiling in Spa City

06/2023

Arkansas film community mourns Joe St. Ana

Festival: Two days and nights in Bentonville

Atkinson recalls role in ‘BlacKkKlansman’

Inside the Drive-In Speakerbox

Tiny pop-up Cinema I/O big on entertainment

Dern and Ladd share memories at ACS event

05/2023

Joe Bob Briggs talks movies and Arkansas

Hot Springs eternal: Matt Smith to reopen Central City 10

Busy weekend for filmmakers in Arkansas

‘Arthouse Garage’ is analytical, smart

04/2023

Festival aspires to make Jonesboro an ‘Oasis’ for films

Working Red Carpet for ‘God’s Country Song’

A date with scream queen Tamara Glynn

‘Blue’s Clues’ Steve Burns asks for help

UCA film grads screen their work

03/2023

Rockhill’s ‘American’ indie success

Oscar’s docs gloomy but sun shines at True/False

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema comes to the rescue after 112 Drive-In shuttered

Arkansas Film Society to screen ‘Llego Hoy’

02/2023

Q&A with Chazz Palminteri on ‘A Bronx Tale’

Horror cinephiles help the homeless population

Barry Clifton’s method acting

Westwind fosters filmmaking ‘creatives’

01/2023

Ex-student releases ‘Skull and the Arm’

Regal UA Breckenridge Theater dies

Remembering 16 years of shorts at film festival

Resolutions for a better cinematic year in Arkansas

12/2022

‘Babette’s Feast’ (1987)

Goblin plays ‘synth-sational’ soundtrack show

Jennette McCurdy opens up about her life and memoir

Local film has all-Black cast and production team

‘Election’ (1999)

Not your father’s film series

11/2022

Harry Thomason, the raconteur, comes home

A talk with Todd Solondz at UCA

Overall impressions from Filmland 5

What Filmland gets right … and a little wrong

A few days at the Fayetteville Film Fest

Filmmakers are told to ‘discover your own voice’

10/2022

Hanging out with Pope of Trash — John Waters

After 31 years, Hot Springs festival keeps on rolling

‘The Beyond’ (1981)

BBB: Wild ones return on motorcycles

Dreadrock festival aims to fill local horror gap

09/2022

Chasing down ‘Ghosts of the Ozarks’

‘Last Night at the Alamo’ (1983)

Wholesomeness marks Cabot film festival

UCA film school grads add diversity to program

Three filmmakers to be UCA Artists in Residence

UCA alumnus makes solid film on low budget

8/2022

Opinion | FILM SCENE: Arkansas PBS’ ‘Dirt’ educates, entertains

48 Hour Film Project contest returns

Summer film series covers the cult classics

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