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Join in with Whoopi and the Sisters in this sing-along screening of Sister Act (1992), and break out your glitziest habit for a pre-film costume party! When lively lounge singer Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) sees her mobster beau, Vince…
"A plumply overripe fruit of the counterculture, dripping with the juices of spiritual rebellion, semi-comic posturing, consciousness-raising and all-around freakiness. Hardly a moment passes in this movie without a situationist display of outrageousness; it is a dream tableau of the…
The image of Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock remains one of the most enduring images of the silent era -- and this image is from the film Safety Last, which was released on April 1, 1923. Safety Last is…
"You can keep your sanitized, corporate-approved Chris Pratt vehicle. Give me chaos instead, every time." -Alex Perry, Mashable The huge success of the video games featuring animated Italian plumbers the Mario Brothers led to this $42 million live action movie.…
All tickets for this event have been reserved. We will open a wait-list on the night of the show 30 minutes before the program begins. 50,000 HOOSIERS CAN’T BE WRONG! Hosted by journalist Devin Thomas O’Shea and by World Wide…
Our Nunsploitation Double Feature gives you two of the wildest entries in one of the most superbly sleazy subgenres of exploitation cinema! School of the Holy Beast begins at 8 PM with The Other Hell following at 10 PM. Tickets…
"Described by Martin Scorsese as, 'a cross between Disney and a horror film'...Black Narcissus is iconically and almost ethereally beautiful. A full-blooded, complex melodrama of the highest order, it is truly, madly, hysterically wonderful." -Emma Simmonds, PopMatters This explosive work about…
A night celebrating everyone’s favorite perpetually disheveled yet quietly brilliant detective: Lt. Columbo (played to the hilt by the lovable Peter Falk)! In addition to showing a classic episode on our big screen, we'll have drink specials, Columbo-themed cocktails, and…
"Marijuana panic won’t die, but REEFER MADNESS will live forever." -Kristin Hunt, Take Two This unabashed propaganda film (also known by the title Tell Your Children, a dead giveaway) has become a cult classic of comically bad cinema due to its dated,…
Screening as part of Arkadin's 420 DOUBLE FEATURE along with the hilariously cheesy anti-marijuana propaganda classic Reefer Madness. We'll be giving away prize packs from Mighty Kind and selling munchies courtesy of Mister's Hand Pies. Tickets to Reefer Madness are…
This film is presented by STL’s new series COUNTER PROGRAM, an alternative to the multiplex. Featuring an intro by local film critic Joshua Ray. A gripping exercise in body horror and social paranoia, prolific Canadian director David Cronenberg's debut feature offers…
"A poster child for the kind of movies Hollywood doesn’t make anymore and a beacon of positive masculinity...If you kidnapped a hundred of Hollywood’s top minds and forced them to work around the clock, they could not engineer a more…
Drinkolas Cage! A monthly Nic Cage movie and drinking game event only at Arkadin Cinema & Bar. The last Wednesday of each month we show a mystery Nic Cage movie and write an accompanying drinking game. Tickets are $5, movie…
The last Thursday of each month, we'll celebrate the life and work of a recently departed actor, filmmaker, cinematographer, composer, or anyone else from the world of cinema who's recently shuffled off this mortal coil with a FREE surprise film…
"THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR -- Paul Verhoeven’s deeply crass, catty, naughty, violent nunsploitation saga... lesbian nuns who have sex like veteran porn stars, who fart mid-poop, whose melodramatic acts of betrayal would play beautifully on a daytime soap,…
This film is screening as one half of Arkadin's APRIL SHOWERS DOUBLE FEATURE with Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. See both films for just $13. "There is no movie musical more fun than Singin' in the Rain, and few…
This film is screening as one half of Arkadin's APRIL SHOWERS DOUBLE FEATURE with classic Hollywood musical Singin' in the Rain. See both films for just $13. "What's so overpoweringly beautiful about The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg is that it matches…
Presented by the St. Louis chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, this free May Day screening will feature a discussion on the issues of organized labor raised by the film. During the blacklist, a number of filmmakers decided to band…
“Over the Edge pretty much defined my whole personality. It was really cool. Total anarchy.” - Kurt Cobain Originally pitched as “Rebel Without A Cause 1979,” director Jonathan Kaplan’s Over The Edge is the definitive portrait of late 20th century…
"A masterpiece...original and triumphant...Bergman’s film is profoundly upsetting, at moments terrifying. It relates the horror of the dissolution of personality. And it depicts the complementary horror of the theft (whether voluntary or involuntary is left unclear) of personality." -Susan Sontag…
