Screenland Crossroads

This theater is wonderful. I like the small atmosphere and the fact that they have a bar! Who doesn’t like seeing great new and classic movies on a theater screen while having a drink (or two… or three…)?
I went a couple years ago for their screening of Army of Darkness and it was nice to be in a theater with people as dorky as me!
If you want a unique theater experience and a chance to see some older movies on a big screen again, this is definitely a place to check out! Their website posts all the upcoming screenings. Enjoy!

This is a review for the new Screenland Crossroads Theatre. I’ve previously reviewed the Tapcade area (on the Tapcade page), but this is for a separate visit in which I went to see a movie there finally in the Screenland Crossroads zone.
First off, I was very excited to hear that Screenland Crossroads was playing a movie that I had been hoping would come to KC (Goodnight Mommy). They are also the only theatre currently playing it in the KC area. I decided I needed to finally check out the theatre there and go see it this last Sunday. Buying tickets is easy. You get them from the hostess stand right when you walk into the Tapcade area. The theatre has two entrances/​exits. One is to the right of the bar area and the other is to the left (near the restrooms). The theatre itself has a very nice set up. It’s small (4 rows of seats), but seat is comfy and you have a bar top all the way across. The walls have some fun movie cult-​movie themed pop art on them. It’s a full-​service theatre as well. Like Drafthouse, you write your orders on a slip and set them up in order to get food/​drinks. I had the nachos (ridiculously huge for $ 9! Be prepared to share or to give up, haha) and my husband had a burrito and the cookies. The cookies take a little time to come out, but they’re warm and soft (worth the wait). We had no issues getting waters brought to us and they were even refilled about halfway through the film without having to ask.
The bills weren’t brought out until the credits started. This was unusual (as I’m used to them coming out at similar theatres about 15 mins till the end of the film), but I actually liked it. When the bills come out during the movie, you end up being distracted during parts of the film that you should be paying attention to. The waiter we had was very good and manned the theatre alone (to be fair there were probably only about 12 people in the theatre).
Now the downside… the french fry maker! Oh my gosh was this a terrible idea! So, maybe halfway into this quiet suspenseful film, there came a jarringly loud thumping/​scraping noise from the back wall. It continued on. and on. and on. and everyone was turning in their seats to try and figure out what was happening. My husband finally got annoyed enough and took the initiative to hunt down the source of this ridiculously loud noise. Turns out it was some kind of potato-​to-​french-​fry wall press. I guess this press is attached to the wall of the theatre from the other side and a kitchen worker decided to break down a lot of potatoes mid-​screening. I don’t know if this happens every hour or so every day or what. I’m hoping this was just a screw up and that they had to either; A: make some fries in a hurry due to running out of already cut-​potatoes. or; B: didn’t realize there was a film currently being shown in the theatre. Due to my hopes for this being a screw-​up, I’m still giving the experience 4 stars. If I go back for another movie and this happens again though, I’ll never return. This was very distracting and could potentially ruin the entire film-​going experience.