Microcinema in the heart of Bevo | 5228 Gravois Ave. | st. louis, mo 63116
Drink specials! Music videos! Hangout vibes on Cinco de Mayo! Come and chill out with some music videos on the big screen. Make a request, and we'll show whatever you're feeling! Just like Carson Daly used to do back in…
"Not only one of the greatest anime movies ever made, it is also one of the best science-fiction films of all time... The story of an artificial intelligence that evolves to such an extent that it demands to be treated as a…
"Just about the greatest thriller to ever turn a moviegoer’s knuckles white, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear is to nail-biter cinema what Raymond Chandler is to detective fiction: pretty damn essential." -Chris Barsanti In a squalid South American oil town, four…
"A defiant, mad gesture of a film that features some of the most exhilarating sequences in movie history." -Sam Adams, The Dissolve William Friedkin's hothouse remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's masterpiece of suspense, The Wages of Fear, the misleadingly-titled Sorcerer is…
"Tarkovsky stages his philosophical saga in the 'real world', and the ambiguities and field-tension he generates within that quite literally magical space makes us more aware, makes every detail of the landscape important. It makes the surroundings vivid. Soon we…
Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close up! Is this beautifully staged and shot Cecil B. DeMille romantic comedy, Leila Porter (Gloria Swanson) has grown tired of her husband James Denby Porter, the glue king, as she is romantic but…
"The most brilliant establishing shot in film history—a shot that establishes not only place and main characters in its continuous movement over several city blocks, but also the film’s theme (crossing boundaries), spatial metaphors, and peculiar bolero rhythm. Made in…
Experience a double feature from the depths of body-horror hell with Shinya Tsukamoto’s ferocious, frenetic, claustrophobic, techno-tronic Eraserhead riffs, Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer. Two films for just 10 bucks! TETSUO: THE IRON MAN Virtually absent…
"Before inspiring all of the catchy musical numbers, Corman's film remains an absurd, slapstick comedy with a sharp mix of stark depression... The movie remains shockingly entertaining sixty years later." -Danny Anderson, Film Inquiry Perhaps the greatest movie ever shot…
"Incredibly campy and absurd, filled with fan-favorite show tunes such as 'Suddenly Seymour' as well as a delightfully deranged performance by Steve Martin as a sadistic dentist in the aptly named 'Dentist!' and other equally freaky feats of off-beat musical excellence." -Eleanor Burnard,…
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…
Come decked out in your most elegant wares (or not!) and enjoy some delectable cocktails on special as we transport back to the hard-partying high-society milieu depicted in the classic comedy caper The Thin Man! Driven by the sparkling chemistry…
Got the box office blues? Counter Program is your once monthly dose of arthouse, cult, or world cinema to fight your malady of the mainstream. When drag racing goes cross-country, nothing matters more than (Sister Sledge’s) “We Are Family.” The…
"Akira Kurosawa’s seminal gangster/samurai fable Yojimbo is just as important a landmark in the director’s career—if not for its devilish hybrid of styles, inversion of genre conventions, and sly political commentary, then certainly for sheer entertainment value. Something of a textbook example…
"There are three dialogue-free scenes in the quintessential 1964 spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars that every genre-loving moviegoer should see at least once projected on a theater screen... You need a big screen to behold fully these close-ups of Gian…
"It might be the most empathetic and exhilarating mainstream American animated feature ever made." -Adam Nayman, The Ringer The Iron Giant is a wondrous animated fairy tale of post-Sputnik paranoia and the related fears of "otherness" that carries with it…
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…
"The most insane must-see cult classic...British director John Boorman got $1.5 million to make whatever kind of movie he wanted. The result was a true auterurist epic, a film which Boorman produced, wrote, and directed. This is, of course, the…
"The most insane must-see cult classic...British director John Boorman got $1.5 million to make whatever kind of movie he wanted. The result was a true auterurist epic, a film which Boorman produced, wrote, and directed. This is, of course, the…
"Squishy gore on industrial machinery, interiors out of Dial M for Murder, the disintegrated cat's spectral meowing, absurdities offered by Kurt Neumann with such calm as to turn hallucinatory." -Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion Vincent Price, often willing to ham it up…
