THREADS (1984) w/ intro by author Bob Mielke, presented with Die Die Books -- $7
2024-12-15 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
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This screening will be introduced by Truman State University professor Bob Mielke, author of THREADS, a study of the film published by Die Die Books. Prof. Mielke’s book will be available for purchase at the screening.

Upon its 1984 premiere at the height of global nuclear tension, THREADS shocked the entirety of the BBC’s viewership. Months later, it became the most-watched cable program in American history. Exactingly directed and chillingly scripted, this graphic docudrama depicts the unraveling of society after the working-class city of Sheffield, UK undergoes nuclear attack. With talk of nuclear conflict back in the news, the time is now for audiences with fortitude to experience and absorb this shattering vision on the big screen.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s December-long series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, spotlighting films that show winter in all its dark, desolate beauty.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

IT DOESN’T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS -- back by popular demand!
2024-12-15 17:45 - 19:30
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BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Winner of Best Feature at Salem Horror Fest and an official selection of Midnight Madness at Toronto International Film Festival, this unique found-footage horror film was made in Missouri and will never be on streaming. Filmmakers Nick Toti and Rachel Kempf will introduce the film.

Nick Toti and Rachel Kempf live and breathe horror movies. So when the couple begin to observe that the dilapidated duplex they just bought exhibits all the telltale signs of having a haunted history, they can barely believe their luck.

While most new homeowners would blanch at the sight of walls strewn with satanic graffiti, a basement littered with seemingly cursed objects, and more doors torn from their hinges than there are door frames, Nick and Rachel are gleefully inspired to conduct and document a seance within their abnormal abode. Even eerier, their Missouri manor begins to attract enigmatic, entranced strangers who creepily convene on the front lawn in increasing numbers with every passing day. Things only get weirder and scarier from there.

What sets this found-footage horror apart from other indies of its ilk is its remarkable verisimilitude. Utilizing two decades of archival footage that detail Nick and Rachel’s real-life relationship, the divide between documentary and nightmare blurs throughout as the encroaching supernatural phenomena is contrasted with the genuine vulnerability of its subjects.

The infectious camaraderie among these ghost hunters, who include Christian, Rachel’s true-life bestie, rings as authentic as the fear that Nick captures with his obsessive, voyeuristic camerawork. Already amassing acclaim on the festival circuit as one of the scariest films of its sub-genre since The Blair Witch Project, this doom-laden diary, which the filmmakers claim will never be exhibited outside a movie theatre, lives up to its deeply sardonic title.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s December-long series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, spotlighting films that show winter in all its dark, desolate beauty.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

Knifetime: A Cheesy Lifetime Movie Event featuring… DON'T WAKE MOMMY (2015)
2024-12-16 19:00 - 21:00
KNIFETIME is a series hosted by Allyson Spina where we revel in the cheesy glory of a bad Lifetime Original Movie! Featuring a special movie-specific drink special and wisecracking commentary from local comedians, this FREE one-of-a-kind event is the 2024 winner of St. Louis Magazine’s A-List Award for Best Movie Night!

Molly is struggling with being a new mom, but after meeting Beth, things temporarily improve only to turn as Beth’s dark intentions are brought to light.

Guest roaster: Jeremy Jones

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

DRINKOLAS CAGE: A Monthly Nicolas Cage Movie Drinking Game Event — SOLD OUT! Waitlist opens 1 hour before showtime
2024-12-18 18:30 - 23:00
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Both shows are SOLD OUT. But you can still get in! Join the waitlist by arriving up to 1 hour before the showtime. There is a good chance you will be able to get you into the 9 pm show!

It’s DRINKOLAS CAGE! Our monthly surprise Nic Cage movie drinking game event. Each month we select a Cage film and write a drinking game for you to play along with.

Two showtimes, 6:30 pm and 9 pm. Weather permitting, the late show will be outdoors during the months of April through October.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

VHS NIGHT – Admission Price: One VHS Tape
2024-12-19 19:00 - 21:30
We will be playing a mystery VHS tape, and it’s up to you what we’ll see!

This month, you’re encouraged (though not required!) to bring a holiday tape!

Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in FREE! It can be absolutely anything — a forgotten bargain-bin B-movie, a Hollywood classic, an aerobics tape, a training video, a home movie. Anything! But there’s an incentive to bring us something good…We will choose one tape to watch with the crowd, and if your VHS gets picked, you get free drinks and concessions all night!

We’ll be collecting tapes up till 7 pm and then starting the show at 7:15 pm. So come on out and enjoy this beloved old-school technology in our cinema!

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

CHRISTMAS SPECIALS FROM HELL -- Free Happy Hour w/ drink specials + deliciously terrible X-mas entertainment
2024-12-20 17:00 - 19:00
January 30, 2026

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7:00 pm

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9:00 pm

$9
plus $1.50 popcorn & drink specials!

During Arkadin happy hours, we offer curated entertainment on the big screen in a looser, loungier atmosphere than a normal film screening. We keep the lights up a bit. No ticket required; you can drop in or drop out any time you like. Totally FREE plus drink/snack specials at the bar!

Christmas Specials from Hell returns to Arkadin to deeply antagonize you this yuletide season. Get in the holiday spirit by watching some weird, wild, and wretchedly awesome Christmas Specials on the big screen while drinking some cheap drinks from our bar! Peanuts, Rudolph, The Grinch. Over the years, television has produced some wonderful specials to enjoy during the Christmas season. We’ll be showing none of those. Instead, it’s the weirdest, wildest, wretchedest nonsense ever to stink up the airwaves. So sit down, enjoy a drink, and endure the worst the season hast to offer with some Christmas Specials…FROM HELL!

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

KRAMPUS (2015)
2024-12-20 19:15 - 21:00
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“A well-above-average ho-ho-ho-horror film with a shivery sense of winter weirdland and anarchic ultra-violence…a strong candidate to become a holiday favourite!” –Empire

When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this lack of festive spirit has unleashed the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers. All hell breaks loose as beloved holiday icons take on a monstrous life of their own, laying siege to the fractured family’s home and forcing them to fight for each other if they hope to survive. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Adam Scott (TV’s Parks and Recreation), Toni Collette (Hereditary), Allison Tolman (TV’s Fargo) and David Koechner (Anchorman), this is a wonderfully dark and subversive alternative to inescapable yuletide cheer.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s December-long series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, spotlighting films that show winter in all its dark, desolate beauty.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

Christmas Eve thriller starring Ray Liotta at his psycho best, TURBULENCE (1997) -- Friday Night WTF! -- $5
2024-12-20 21:15 - 23:00
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Friday Night WTF screenings are cheap, weird, and out of control! Cult trashterpieces, so-bad-they’re-good crapfests, movies that make you ask “What the hell am I watching?!” — we’ve got ’em all on Friday night.

“A 100-minute thrill ride featuring an unhinged Liotta performance full of psycho charmer grace notes…PLUS IT’S A CHRISTMAS MOVIE” -Joe, Letterboxd

Snowstorms, long delays, flu germs flying around. No one likes flying during the holidays. But at least there isn’t a charmingly seductive yet viciously psychopathic serial killer lurking amongst your fellow airplane passengers…or is there? In TURBULENCE, some last-minute Christmas Eve passengers board a cross-country flight that will change their lives forever…if they survive. For flight attendant Teri Halloran (Lauren Holly), it’s a plane ride like any other—with only one difference: This time they’ll be carrying two very special passengers—an armed robber named Stubbs (Brendan Gleeson) and murderer Ryan Weaver (Ray Liotta, chewing every bit of scenery all the way from New York to Los Angeles)—both handcuffed, shackled and escorted by top security agents. But when Stubbs slaughters one of his escorts and manages to break free, the balance of power suddenly changes hands. And if a couple dangerous criminals weren’t problem enough, the massive 747 also happens to be heading directly into a terrible storm!

A flop upon its initial release, TURBULENCE lives on as perhaps the single-most nutso, go-for-broke entry in the surprisingly robust Die Hard-sploitation subgenre. Despite being set almost entirely on a commercial airliner, TURBULENCE ups Die Hard‘s Christmas ante, while delivering a villain that tops the scenery-chewing magnificence of Hans Gruber. While it failed to light up the box office, TURBULENCE became a staple of late-night pay cable and managed to spawn not one but two direct-to-video sequels, including the legendarily silly Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal. So please buy a ticket, so we have an excuse to inflict the over-the-top ridiculousness of the entire Turbulence trilogy upon you!

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

Christmas Anime Classic TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003) -- Sold Out!
2024-12-21 17:00 - 19:00
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“A MODERN ANIME CLASSIC… a stirring celebration of inclusivity that remains ahead of its time.” -The Daily Beast

In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people’s lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches, these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the mystery of the abandoned child and the fate of her parents. Along the way, encounters with seemingly unrelated events and people force them to confront their own haunted pasts, as they learn to face their future, together. Heartbreaking, hilarious and highly original, Tokyo Godfathers is a humanist masterpiece from the legendary director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Perfect Blue), and a tale of hope and redemption in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s December-long series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, spotlighting films that show winter in all its dark, desolate beauty.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

Brutal Christmastime Noir BLAST OF SILENCE (1961) -- $3
2024-12-22 13:00 - 14:30
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“Brutal, uncompromising… one of the greatest and most unsung of American Christmas movies” –Slant Magazine

Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron’s New York City noir Blast of Silence is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet also with an eye and ear for the oddball details of urban living and the imposing beauty of the city. At once visually ragged and artfully composed, and featuring rough, poetic narration (grippingly written in second person), Blast of Silence is a stylish triumph.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s December-long series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, spotlighting films that show winter in all its dark, desolate beauty.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (1995) w/ Pajama Party & Cookie Swap!
2024-12-22 14:45 - 16:45
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“The perfect holiday rom-com, with just the right amount of Christmas magic…sweet and endearing with a hilarious cast and an excellent love story.” -Deseret News

The premise of WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING sounds like some dark horror-thriller about obsession—Lucy, a lonely tollbooth worker saves the life of a handsome stranger, Peter (Peter Gallagher), who falls into a coma. Through a series of misunderstandings, Lucy must pretend to be Peter’s fiancée, all while ingratiating herself into his unsuspecting family and gradually falling for his ruggedly charming younger brother (Bill Pullman). But thanks to the charisma and chemistry of the leads, as well as the wittily sketched caricatures in Peter’s family, WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING remains a rom-com treasure, a delightfully Christmassy bon-bon that will make you laugh and swoon, whether you’ve seen it a dozen times or never before.

This screening is a pajama party and cookie swap, so put on your PJs and bring some home-baked cookies to share! We’re all gonna make it through this Christmas season together!

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

REX: A DINOSAUR'S STORY (1993) -- Japanese Dino Christmas Rarity -- FREE!
2024-12-23 18:00 - 19:45
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“So cute it’s almost physically painful to watch” -Daniel, Letterboxd

Arkadin’s Christmas present to you is a FREE screening of a little-known yet aggressively adorable yuletide dinosaur kiddie movie from Japan! Made to capitalize on the success of Jurassic Park, REX: A DINOSAUR’S STORY is unique and charming — something like if My Dog Skip had a baby with Prehysteria. The film tells the story of an adorable young girl, Chie (Yumi Adachi), who befriends an even more adorable young dinosaur after it hatches from a prehistoric egg discovered by her paleontologist father. REX rightfully became a massive hit in its native Japan, but its theatrical run was cut short by its producer’s arrest on drug charges, and the film is virtually unknown in the United States. Get in the yuletide spirit with this should-be Christmas classic!

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS -- $3
2024-12-23 20:00 - 22:00
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Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales, which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come. These spare, atmospheric dramas ran from 30 to 50 minutes and drew heavily on the stories of horror-fiction pioneer M.R. James. Often set in Victorian and Edwardian times, these compact ghost stories play brilliantly with the power of suggestion. We’ll be presenting a selection of a few of the finest films in this series to give you a chill this Christmas.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE Happy Hour -- Favorite Eps + Drink Specials -- FREE!
2024-12-27 17:00 - 19:00
January 30, 2026

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7:00 pm

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9:00 pm

$9
plus $1.50 popcorn & drink specials!

During Arkadin happy hours, we offer curated entertainment on the big screen in a looser, loungier atmosphere than a normal film screening. We keep the lights up a bit. No ticket required; you can drop in or drop out any time you like. Totally FREE plus drink/snack specials at the bar!

You’re traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead: your next stop: The Twilight Zone! Why should the Syfy channel get to have all the fun? Get a jump on a venerable new year’s tradition with some great episodes of the original classic anthology series.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

MISERY (1990)
2024-12-27 19:15 - 21:15
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“Turn[s] the claustrophobic spaces and prolonged suffering of Stephen King’s text into an anxious Hitchcockian thriller” -From the Front Row

Novelist Paul Sheldon doesn’t remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. He doesn’t remember being nursed back from unconsciousness. But he will never forget Annie Wilkes. James Caan and Academy Award winner Kathy Bates star in the bone-shattering thriller MISERY, brilliantly adapted from the novel by Stephen King. As Paul (Caan) recuperates from his injuries in the secluded cabin of his benefactor Annie (Bates), he begins to discover that beneath the seemingly kind and naive exterior of his self-described “number one fan” lurks a mind that is cunning, unhinged, and bent on keeping her favorite writer as her personal prisoner for the rest of his “cock-a-doodie” life … and Sheldon must engage his savior-turned-captor in a battle of wills that will push them both to the brink. Adapted by two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman and directed by Rob Reiner (The Princess Bride), MISERY is considered by critics and fans (number ones and others) to be among the greatest horror-thrillers of all-time. Revisit this classic tonight, and bring a friend … after all, Misery loves company.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s December-long series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, spotlighting films that show winter in all its dark, desolate beauty.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

TOKYO GORE POLICE (2008) -- Friday Night WTF! -- $5
2024-12-27 21:30 - 23:00
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Friday Night WTF screenings are cheap, weird, and out of control! Cult trashterpieces, so-bad-they’re-good crapfests, movies that make you ask “What the hell am I watching?!” — we’ve got ’em all on Friday night.

“The goriest, craziest, most eye-blowing, chunk-spewing, head-exploding sci-fi movie of all time.” -New York Post

Blood, guts and guns are the new normal in the new police state! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation wages a blood-splattered war with the Engineers, a genetically modified group of super-criminals. These mutant mobsters can bio-fuse and surgically implant weapons into their anatomy, turning self-mutilation and body modification into a lethal form of performance art. Meet Ruka, the daughter of a brutally slain police officer, the Corporation’s deadliest Engineer Hunter. With cold blooded efficiency, she slices and dices her way through the crime world and discovers a lair that operates as the underworld’s freakish fetish club! But no amount of fear can deter Ruka from fulfilling her sworn duty and avenging her father’s death.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

Robert Altman's McCABE & MRS. MILLER (1975) w/ Leonard Cohen pre-show @ 12:30 pm -- $7
2024-12-28 13:30 - 15:30
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“Robert Altman has made a dozen films that can be called great, but one of them is perfect, and that one is McCabe & Mrs. Miller.” -Roger Ebert

This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives for a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans. With its fascinating, flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s December-long series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, spotlighting films that show winter in all its dark, desolate beauty.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

Quentin Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015)
2024-12-28 16:00 - 19:00
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“A parlor-room epic, an entire nation in a single room…vital, riveting and real.” –Telegraph

Set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman”, will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road they encounter two strangers Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) a black former Union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins) a southern renegade who claims to to be the town’s new sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir) who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth) the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen) and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they might not make it to Red Rock after all…

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s December-long series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, spotlighting films that show winter in all its dark, desolate beauty.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT (2024) w/ filmmaker Q&A -- new release only at Arkadin!
2024-12-28 20:00 - 22:00
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“A punk-rock Midsommar…demented, visually lush [and] explodes into manic, blood soaked adrenaline” -aManCalledSteve

PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT tells the story of Max, a young record store clerk who stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into the world of a 1970s hippie commune. An invitation to the remnants of the outlandish cult and their unholy spawn leads to grave and grisly circumstances for Max and her friends. The film’s producers, led by cult director Christopher Bickel, have pulled off a no-budget coup in bringing this grim vision to life, with a team of award-winning practical special effects artists and a hauntingly atmospheric score that will immerse audiences in a world of relentlessly trippy terror.

A virtual Q&A with director Chris Bickel will immediately follow the screening.

“A wild punch in the face of a horror film” -The Jasper Project“An absolute blast! Mixes artsiness with disturbing imagery and extreme gore.” -Pop Horror“movie of the year~see this! bickel & first-timer adara starr nail the funny hangout shit, beyond-lemurian scientifik mystikism, music/scene gags & gonzo sacrament finale.” -pd187, Letterboxd

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

CANCELED (will be rescheduled) -- Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky's WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (2000)
2024-12-29 15:00 - 17:45
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we’ve had to cancel this screening. Werckmeister Harmonies will be rescheduled next year. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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“Chilling, mesmerizing, intense…essential viewing, especially for anyone new to Tarr’s cinema” -Jonathan Rosenbaum

This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s December-long series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, spotlighting films that show winter in all its dark, desolate beauty.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

$3 MYSTERY MOVIE: A True-Life Documentary as Hilarious and Absurd as Spinal Tap (but with a lot more danger!)
2024-12-30 19:00 - 21:00
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On the last Monday of every month, Arkadin chooses an underseen deep cut to inflict upon an unwitting audience. Though the genre and tone may change, the price always remains the same: three measly bucks. You can’t afford not to get yourself a ticket!

We’re very excited for this month’s $3 Mystery Movie selection: a hysterical documentary that also happens to feature riveting edge-of-your-seat human drama. In the grand tradition of American Movie, Anvil! and King of Kong (but preceding them all), this is a real-life drama of big dreams and even bigger egos that consistently edges into unintentional hilarity due to the Spinal Tap-esque deadpan with which everyone in the film treats the delusional, life-threatening recklessness of our lovably deluded protagonist. We could give you a great imagine “[blank] meets [blank]” logline, but frankly it would give too much away. Just trust us with your three bucks, and feel your jaw drop further and further for two straight hours as you gape at a man foolishly devoted to accomplishing his utterly stupid dream!

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

THE SHINING (1980) -- Sold Out!
2025-01-01 15:00 - 17:45
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“Radiates cold, anti-humanly indifferent terror.” –Slant Magazine

Ring in the new year with Stanley Kubrick’s snowbound masterpiece of modern horror, THE SHINING. Kubrick’s visionary take on Stephen King’s wildly popular novel has deservedly become one of the most iconic and recognizable works of horror cinema. Indefinable in the most unsettling sense, THE SHINING continues to reward critics and fans alike for its many layers of meaning and visual subtleties behind the deceptively simple story of the ill-fated Torrance family. Starring Jack Nicholson at his psychotic finest and Shelley Duvall, in an undersung scorcher of a performance as his beleaguered wife, THE SHINING is a perfectly unsettling way to ease into the winter doldrums.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s December-long series, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, spotlighting films that show winter in all its dark, desolate beauty.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (1978) presented by Strange Brew
2025-01-01 19:00 - 21:00
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This film is presented by St. Louis’s long-running cult film series Strange Brew — winner of the 2025 A-List Award for Best Movie Night in St. Louis. Strange Brew programmer Jon Scorfina will provide an introduction.

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (少林三十六房) is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest kung fu films ever made. The film stars exceptional martial artist Gordon Liu and was directed by Lau Kar-leung, who collaborated on more than a dozen kung fu and wuxia films together during their careers. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin was the film that catapulted the actor & director to international stardom and the film now stands as the duo’s most regarded Shaw Brothers production, setting the template for almost every kung fu film after.

Loosely based on the life of Shaolin Monk San Te, the film follows Liu Yude (Gordon Liu) as he joins a Shaolin temple to learn kung fu so he can seek revenge against General Tien Ta (Lo Lieh) for killing his friends and family. Once accepted into the temple, he is trained in the 35 chambers, each of which teach one specific fighting discipline, resulting in some of the most brilliant, breathtaking and bewildering training sequences ever put to film. Once Liu Yude masters all his techniques, he hopes to start a new 36th chamber to teach ordinary people the basics of kung fu.

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin would go on to influence not only more kung fu films, but generations of westerners, including filmmakers Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino (who would later cast Gordon Liu in his Kill Bill films) and of course Wu Tang Clan‘s debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

FRAGILE (2005) presented by Dark Dream Cinema
2025-01-02 19:00 - 21:00
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Dark Dream Cinema is a monthly film series devoted to the creeping undercurrents of the arthouse scene, hosted by Michael Morlaine.

“Set[s] the mood and then creep[s] you the hell out!” -The Horror Club

One of those here-and-gone releases that never garnered the attention it deserved, the Spanish-British production Fragile takes its place among the best ghost stories ever filmed. The tale of a pediatric nurse who discovers a secret buried above the only open wing of a derelict children’s hospital, the film takes its cues from such unsung classics as Session 9 and The Changeling in utilizing pacing and atmosphere to deliver a series of well-earned scares. Helmed by the director of [REC] and starring (of all people) Calista Flockhart, Fragile uses its unique pedigree to produce an experience that is both deeply spooky and genuinely moving. This one will haunt you long after it’s over.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
2025-01-03 16:00 - 18:20
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“T2 has lost none of its thrilling power, feminist ferocity, and ominous foreboding—and seen on a big screen, it still puts most of its modern Hollywood progeny to shame.” -The Daily Beast

No mere cash-grab sequel, James Cameron expanded the scope of his 1984 classic while deepened its vision (and upping the effects budget considerably). The result was a masterpiece of science-fiction filmmaking, a chilling vision of the robot apocalypse wedded to a rollicking adventure tale that recasts the murderous T-800 of the original as a savior sent back to the present to protect Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and her teen son John (Edward Furlong) from a new advanced model cyborg T-1000 (Robert Patrick) in a bid to stop a future war between humans and the intelligent machine SkyNet. Its early CGI effects are still eye-popping, and its story is all-too-relevant — a disarmingly philosophical investigation of humanity’s fate and the dangers of AI.

This film as screening as part of Arkadin’s January-long spotlight on DYSTOPIAN VISIONS, chilling peeks into humanity’s doomed future.

T2 is screening twice on Jan. 3, at 4 pm ($7 tickets) and at 8:30 pm ($9 tickets). Choose your time at checkout.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

THE END OF EVANGELION (1997)
2025-01-03 18:30 - 20:15, 2025-01-04 20:00 - 21:45
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“Profound, disturbing and beautiful…an anime masterpiece” -Tom Cassidy

Created by Hideaki Anno , the Neon Genesis Evangelion television series is one of the most influential animated series of all time. Since its 1995 premiere in Japan, the story of teenager Shinji Ikari has emerged as one of the most iconic titles in animation history and a global pop culture phenomenon.

Originally released in 1997, this final movie version was created as an alternative ending to the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, remaking the final two episodes from the series: SEELE plans an attack on NERV after failing to create a man-made Third Impact. After reaffirming both her own and her mother’s existence in a state of despair, Asuka returns and begins the counterattack. However, new enemies descend from the heavens. Meanwhile, Shinji witnesses the horrifying wreckage of Asuka’s EVA-02 while piloting EVA-01. Mass production models surround EVA-01 and perform a solemn ceremony. What does it mean to complete a human heart?

This film as screening as part of Arkadin’s January-long spotlight on DYSTOPIAN VISIONS, chilling peeks into humanity’s doomed future.

End of Eva is screening twice, once on Jan. 3, at 6:30 pm and again on Jan. 4 at 8:00 pm . Choose your time at checkout.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
2025-01-03 20:30 - 23:00
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“T2 has lost none of its thrilling power, feminist ferocity, and ominous foreboding—and seen on a big screen, it still puts most of its modern Hollywood progeny to shame.” -The Daily Beast

No mere cash-grab sequel, James Cameron’s expanded the scope of his 1984 classic while deepened its vision (and upping the effects budget considerably). The result was a masterpiece of science-fiction filmmaking, a chilling vision of the robot apocalypse wedded to a rollicking adventure tale that recasts the murderous T-800 of the original as a savior sent back to the present to protect Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and her teen son John (Edward Furlong) from a new advanced model cyborg T-1000 (Robert Patrick) in a bid to stop a future war between humans and the intelligent machine SkyNet. Its early CGI effects are still eye-popping, and its story is all-too-relevant — a disarmingly philosophical investigation of humanity’s fate and the dangers of AI.

This film as screening as part of Arkadin’s January-long spotlight on DYSTOPIAN VISIONS, chilling peeks into humanity’s doomed future.

T2 is screening twice on Jan. 3, at 4 pm ($7 tickets) and at 8:30 pm ($9 tickets). Choose your time at checkout.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

Groovy Sci-Fi from Behind the Iron Curtain, SIGNALS: A SPACE ADVENTURE (1970) -- New Restoration!
2025-01-04 16:00 - 18:00
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“The utopian realism found in Signals [is] a mixture of an official socialist future vision combined with a focus on current concerns in space travel.” —Sonja Fritzsche, Film & History

The first and most ambitious of two epic space operas that prolific East German genre director Gottfried Kolditz made for the state-run DEFA film studios, SIGNALS: A SPACE ADVENTURE was DEFA’s cheeky attempt to outdo Kubrick’s epochal 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY behind the Iron Curtain. The film used many of the same tricks: expansive, visually stunning shots of the cosmos … gorgeous Futurist space-design with ergonomic chairs, IBM lookalike computers, Mod mini-dresses and STAR TREK space uniforms … even a copycat free-floating in tunnel sequence with a wild electronic Perry-Kingsley type score. Adapted from the novel Asteroid Hunters (Asteroidenjäger) by popular East German sci-fi author Carlos Rasch, the plot follows the crew of the spaceship Laika, rocketing towards Jupiter in hopes of rescuing their comrades on the apparently-destroyed ship Icarus. But the real star here is the breathtaking 70mm cinematography by Otto Hanisch, recently restored in 6K from the original camera negative by the University of Massachusetts Amherst / DEFA Film Library. In German with English subtitles.

If you enjoyed In the Dust of the Stars at Arkadin last month, you’re sure to find SIGNALS deliciously groovy! See this brand-new restoration only at Arkadin.

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.

ENDLESS SUMMER SYNDROME -- A shocking new family drama only at Arkadin!
2025-01-04 18:00 - 20:00
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“Intense, sexy, and fraught with tension” —Film Threat

A lazy late-summer weekend is disrupted by a shocking allegation when Delphine gets an anonymous call from her husband’s colleague about an alleged affair with one of their adopted children. Before leaping to conclusions she decides to quietly observe her family for a shred of evidence; anything to subside her fear and erase doubt. After the truth presents itself in an unexpected, shocking manner, Delphine choses to look past the blame for a permanent solution. This boundary pushing debut feature by Kaveh Daneshmand paints an intimate portrait of an upper-class French family with sly black humor and sensuality aplenty.

“A compellingly subversive concoction that dares raise uncomfortable questions with no easy answers”—The Film Stage“This nifty little film will keep viewers rapt as the truth comes to light.”—MovieJawn“A provocation with a rare respect for the spectator’s own moral compass.” —Gay City News“Part thriller, part critique of bourgeois sexual morality, but Daneshmand isn’t just a shameless provocateur.” —Crooked Marquee

See this new release from Altered Innocence one night only!

Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

THEATER POLICIESAll seats are first-come, first-served.The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter. If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in. Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.
