Kansas City Film Critics Circle Exists & Celebrates The Multiverse

We celebrate a January cowtown tradition and our traditional pet peeves . . .

There's no such thing as "film" anymore . . . 

What most Americans generally regard as "movies" haven't been recorded on film for more than a decade. 

Long gone are the days of camera exposures imprinted upon a thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. 

Now, nearly all cinema is shot by way of digital video recorders exposed and compiled by an image sensor and recorded to digital memory that has more in common with your dad's old camcorder than Hollywood's golden era. 

Also . . .

Just like everything else . . . 

Cinema is now a niche pursuit and short online video is the way that most people on planet Earth watch some facsimile of "movies" that are mostly just a passing interest betwixt notifications from their phone. 

Finally . . .

A groundbreaking idea gleaned from the world of physics and cosmology — What most movie watchers understand as the "multiverse" has become just another hack trope for screenwriters who can't be bothered to devise a plot that speaks to anything substantive in the real world.

Still . . . We indulge these beloved movie geeks who STILL take the beloved art form seriously . . . 

The KCFCC, the second oldest professional film critic organization in the United States, was founded in 1966 by the late Dr. James Loutzenhiser (1931-2001), who served as the group’s president for over 30 years.

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