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King Corn made another splash in the Midwest this weekend, opening at St. Louis’s Tivoli Theater with a rave review from The Riverfront Times. Take a peek here, and then mosey on down to the Tivoli. We’ll be there all week!

All the king’s horses, and all King Corn’s men are very pleased to see themselves amid the sexy pages of Men’s Journal this month: Check out the Notebook department of the January issue…soon to be on newsstands everywhere.

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.

Not just anyone reviews King Corn in Mother Jones this week: writer Cassie McGettigan discloses that she’s also the daughter of the “undisputed 1998 Seneca Point, New York, Corn Eating Champion.” Uh-oh. Is this agricultural bias, or what?

Still, Mother Jones gives King Corn a good report card: “Far from a hardball indictment against the system, the film is an entertaining introduction…wide-eyed and low-tech.”

Read the full review here.

Traveling up the California coast, King Corn opens in San Francisco and Berkeley this week, with releases at both the Red Vic Movie House and Berkeley’s Shattuck Theaters!

We’ve heard word that corn-curious hordes may descend for opening weekend…and we’re happy to announce that director Aaron Woolf and the boys will be at both houses for Q&As on both Friday and Saturday nights. Get your advance tickets online for Shattuck Theaters here or at the Red Vic box office here for a guaranteed seat!

If you really can’t wait, read up on the film in SF360’s sneak preview review and interview, just out today, or take a peak at The Ethicurian’s generous plugs of the film in this cheery entry.

In anticipation of its October 26th release at The Laemmle Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills, Variety reviews King Corn, praising the film’s “handsome lensing” and “sharp editing” and calling it a doc that “deftly balances humor and insight.”

Check out the full review, and then see King Corn for yourself!

Los Angeles tickets available here.

The Washington Post reviews King Corn, calling it “lively, engaging and visually arresting”, “funny, wise, and sad”, and “required viewing by anyone planning to visit a supermarket, fast-food joint or their own refrigerator.”

That means you!

Read the full review here.

King Corn sold out to Boston audiences last weekend, prompting an extended run — until November 1 — at The Coolidge Theater!

And read The Boston Globe’s glowing review here; the paper calls King Corn a documentary distinguished by “the unusual amount of warmth it lets into the mix.”

Thanks, Boston!