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“Absolute fucking madness from frame one. Petey Wheatstraw opens with a woman birthing a fully grown, diaper wearing, foul-mouthed six-year-old. It only gets crazier from there. A nightmare of tonal shifts, this is a film that swerves from Benny Hill-like fast-motion comedy…
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT, BUT YOU CAN STILL COME TO OUR POST-FILM KARAOKE PARTY 🎤 Celebrate Arkadin Cinema's one-year anniversary with a masquerade screening of the film that gave us our name -- Orson Welles' MR. ARKADIN. Each ticket…
After our special masquerade screening of Mr. Arkadin, our 1st anniversary festivities continue with a a karaoke party in the cinema! Totally free and open to anyone!
“Even better than you’ve heard (or remember). It’s nothing less than the birth of modern cinema.” – Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into…
“A frenzy of Expressionistic images…burst through the screen to evoke an oppressively incomprehensible system of edicts and constraints. And who better to reveal the system’s evil genius than Welles, the golden boy turned Hollywood martyr?” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker…
Forbidden Hollywood is a monthly series hosted by STL film critic Katie Carter celebrating the Pre-Code films of the early 1930s, when movies were wild, racy, transgressive, and tons of fun. “She climbed the ladder of success— wrong by wrong!”…
Hot off the heels of the massively popular Transformers television show from 1984, Hasbro Toys greenlit The Transformers: The Movie for release in the summer of 1986. Hasbro Toys had just one mandate for the film: Kill off the majority of the current Transformers…
“A perfect Alfred Hitchcock thriller, made the start of his best period, with an ingenious plot taken from a Patricia Highsmith novel and a memorably seductive villain.” The Age What if you playfully hatched the perfect crime, but your accomplice actually…
Relive the days of grunge, flannel, and 120 Minutes with our '90s Alternative Rock Happy Hour, featuring Nirvana, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, and much much more! Plus cheap drinks!
“A defiantly odd comic-book film that looked great, had a unique esthetic, tons of action, a brilliantly over-the-top villain and tons of ‘grrrrl power’ to spare!” -Calgary Herald On International Women's Day experience the wild, wonderfully '90s feminist badassery of…
“One of the strangest movies ever spun from comic-strip source material... A quirky lost masterpiece!” -Alex Pappademas Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly…
Join the On Cinema family on March 10 for a LIVE evening of celebration, traditional values, and of course, movie magic. Oscar Fever is here! Hosted by actor, director, screenwriter, songwriter, recording artist, self-taught attorney, healer and entrepreneur Tim Heidecker (DECKER, Dekkar, FANTASTIC…
Silents, Please! STL celebrates Women's History Month with with a night devoted to WOMEN PIONEERS OF EARLY CINEMA. The program will feature a selection of shorts by groundbreaking French director Alice Guy-Blaché, whose work influenced Alfred Hitchcock and Sergei Eisenstein.…
Celebrate 314 Day with some films made right here in the Lou! We'll be featuring lots of local filmmakers with this exhibition of short films made in the St. Louis metro area. Got a film to submit? It doesn't need…
🌒 Dress in black and unleash your dark side with our Goth Unhappy Hour. 🍸🦇 Grimly sip on our enchanted concoctions as you brood to classic Goth Rock videos and concert clips, including Bauhaus, The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees…
“Dark, moody, and seductively overwrought; it's an amazingly pure expression of morbid adolescent romanticism.” -The New Yorker Based on the graphic novel by James O'Barr, this fantasy follows Eric Draven (Brandon Lee), a rock musician who is murdered along with…
“The greatest installment of the Leprechaun franchise. It cuts the Leprechaun loose in the vice-filled Las Vegas where he goes on his most extreme killing spree in the entire series.” -Screen Rant Celebrate this St. Patrick's Day with cinema's most…
This month, Ally will roast mid-aughts Fatal Attraction rip-off THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR with special co-host Ella Fritts! Donna Germaine (Barbara Niven, Stranger in My Bed) has a secret, she murdered the man she was having an affair with when he…
"One of the most ridiculous films ever made...For some unknown reason, Spider-Man has taken up residency in Turkey and he’s gone bad...real bad." -Film Threat Totally unauthorized and wildly different from any Marvel movie you've ever seen, Three Giant Men,…
"Who would have thought a campy German export about carnivorous contraceptives would have such a big, queer, beating heart?" -Horror Queers Safe sex just got a lot more dangerous in this purposefully outrageous comedy from Germany. A college professor, Mr.…
