Microcinema in the heart of Bevo | 5228 Gravois Ave. | st. louis, mo 63116
"Overpowering and otherworldly...It feels like a transmission from a different planet." -Bilge Ebiri, The Village Voice Celebrate the life and legacy of renegade New Hollywood auteur William Friedkin, who passed away on August 7, 2023. Though best known for the…
In this masterwork from Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang, a single father makes his meager living holding up an advertising placard on a traffic island in the middle of a busy highway. His children wait out their days in supermarkets before…
"A guiding light...It's got incredible gore. It's inspired so many horror films, it's just the proper way to do a slasher." -Jenna Ortega In this stylish, tongue-in-cheek slasher, a relentless killer is out to avenge the death of a young…
"A (self-reflexive) portrait of an artist whose creative temperament is realised as a sort of passion play, and a scuzzy, street-level panorama of contemporary Bowery Bohemianism. These admixtures of high and low, of sublime art and gutter trash, of soaring…
Break out the roller skates for another Mystery Movie Monday -- this time featuring one of the most delightfully corny cash-grabs of the disco era. Featuring tunes from Earth Wind & Fire, The Jacksons, Eddie Money, and more, this is…
BOTH SHOWS ARE SOLD OUT, but you can still get in by joining the waitlist! Waitlist for both shows opens an hour before showtime -- just come in and give your name at the counter. Drinkolas Cage! A monthly Nic…
We will be playing a mystery VHS tape, and it’s up to you what we’ll see! 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…
"Penelope Spheeris' aptly and ironically titled documentary... is a disturbing, often hilarious, strangely exhilarating look at the punk rock scene in Los Angeles as it was during the first six months of 1980." -Eleanor Ringel Cater Their message is brutally…
“The best movie ever made about punks” – Zack Carlson, co-author of Destroy All Movies The narrative directorial debut of Penelope Spheeris (Wayne's World, The Decline of Western Civilization), SUBURBIA will kick your ass. Made for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures…
"Like her namesake, the filmmaker Lizzie Borden took an ax…to cinema conventions and tidy political resolutions in her 1983 landmark Born in Flames. This unruly, unclassifiable film — perhaps the sole entry in the hybrid genre of radical-lesbian-feminist sci-fi vérité —…
In Guncrazy, Drew Barrymore stars as Anita, a struggling high school student that develops a romantic bond with a convict named Howard (James LeGros) through an innocent class pen-pal assignment. Anita acts as a parole sponsor for Howard, helping him get…
“Martin Scorsese once said that this movie, and Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, contain all that can be said about directing. The Fellini film is about the world of deals and scripts and show biz, and the Powell is about the…
It took a quarter-century, but the Marvel Comics vampire-slayer created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan finally hit the big screen in 1998, and it was worth the wait. Wesley Snipes is terrific as the half-vampire Blade, fighting the undead…
While Blade II is playing on our backlot, we'll be hosting a Blade-style Blood Rave in our indoor theater. Totally free. No ticket necessary. Come out, have a drink and enjoy some goth-y techno with hypnotic, vampiric visuals on the…
Wesley Snipes remains the perfect incarnation of the comic book vampire hunter Blade in this intense, bloody sequel that marks a new advance in the world of special effects. Director Guillermo Del Toro (Mimic, The Devil's Backbone) has a strong…
"A BONA FIDE CLASSIC...Other sports movies have captured the power of victory. Only “White Men Can’t Jump” has captured the power of talking smack. The movie is a master class in mockery and ridicule." -Calum Marsh, The New York Times…
Come out on a Monday night for a surprise science fiction selection guaranteed to blow your puny mind! We’ll announce a few teasers each week, but we’re keeping the feature a surprise right until the moment it appears on the…
After Buster Keaton signed a contract with MGM he maintained creative control of one last film, THE CAMERAMAN (1928). In a sense this was the end of an era, as his loss of creative control wrought disastrous effects on his…
Straight Edge Superstar. Voice Of The Voiceless. Best In The World. Love him or hate him, CM Punk’s contributions to professional wrestling are undeniable. Before the Straight Edge Society, The New Nexus, or CMFTR, there was the New Dawn. Join us as…
"Unlike tales of bodysnatching aliens or hellraising demons, the charm of folk horror is that it sidles up to the almost believable. Our suspension of disbelief is extended further than usual with historic settings, real locations and the universal terror of isolation…
