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King Corn’s Curt Ellis caught up with Morgan Spurlock (of Super Size Me fame) this weekend in Portland, where Morgan’s new film, What Would Jesus Buy opened in theaters this week. Check out where the film is playing near you…and then join us in pondering a tricky question: What Would Jesus Eat?

While King Corn’s Ian, Aaron, and Curt were merrily snacking on wild turkey this Thanksgiving — and we don’t mean the kind that comes in a bottle; that’s made with corn, too — rave reviews kept streaming in through the blogosphere.

Check out King Corn appearances in the aptly named Time/CNN blog “The Ag” here, or Seattle’s The Stranger, or The Washington Post’s front-page plug…

Or visit the site of the Grand Rapids Press, where critics call the film “pleasant”, “charming”, and in a description to rival Curt’s impressions of the fistulated steer: “densely packed”.

CBS Sunday Morning got wind of Curt and Ian’s corn-free month this week, popping in to Curt’s Oregon kitchen to witness a little corn-free cooking up close and personal.

Watch the segment here; then try your own hand on that delectable corn-free pecan pie.

King Corn floods the West Coast this weekend, earning extended runs in both San Francisco and Berkeley, and opening for the first time at Portland’s Hollywood Theater and Corvallis’s Darkside Cinema tonight!

Check out what the Oregonians are saying already…Portland’s Willamette Week calls the film “the best and most important movie yet made about the American diet.“

In anticipation of its opening at Omaha’s Ruth Sokolof Theater tonight, The Omaha Reader applauds King Corn, saying that Aaron Woolf “doesn’t play the blame game, despite plenty of opportunities,” and commending the way he “injects the film with a narrative that, without manipulating honesty, creates charming and flawed protagonists in Cheney and Ellis.”

Read the full review here.

And for all you cornhuskers out there: check out the film here this weekend.

King Corn star Curt Ellis and director Aaron Woolf screened the film on its home turf last night, showing the film to a packed house of farmers and ag students at Iowa State University in Ames.

Before the show began, though, Curt couldn’t help but return to his old Iowan ways…I guess it’s true what they say: You can take the corn out of Curt, but you can’t take Curt out of the corn.

The 17th Annual Environmental Media Association Awards, presented last month in Los Angeles, air tonight on E!. And while we’re sorry to report that we did not in fact win this year, we are proud to have had the unparalleled experience of walking down that long, green, decidedly un-organic carpet.

Doesn’t King Corn director Aaron Woolf look snazzy in those shades? Never mind that those damned paparazzi were always…ahem…looking the other way.

King Corn sneak previewed at Berkeley’s Hillside Club on Tuesday night, attracting a crowd of more than 200 people…and one very suggestive corn-cob hat from Michael Pollan.

(Read about the sneak preview at The Ethicurean — the source of this excellent photo — and then check out how you, too, can join in the corny antics in Berkeley tonight! If you’re still not convinced, take a peek at Garden of Eating’s very swell interview with Curt and Ian here. They call us “adorable.)

Advance tickets to King Corn’s opening at The Shattuck are available online here, or at the box office, here. And look for Director Aaron Woolf at the Berkeley screenings; he’ll be on site to answer questions after the show. (Sadly, no corn-cob appearances guaranteed.)

While we’re a little disappointed to have actually witnessed the marquee change — you mean magic elves don’t stealthily switch the letters under cover of night? — King Corn remains tickled, as ever, to see its name in lights!

Check out the film’s San Francisco opening tonight at The Red Vic, where filmmakers Curt and Ian will be in attendance to answer questions…and dispel myths about the magic of the marquee.

Advance tickets available online here, or at the box office, here.