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“ wonderfully vivid sexual nightmare that’s one of Franco’s best” -Mondo Esoterica MACUMBA SEXUAL is a late-career masterpiece starring (of course, again) Franco’s wife and radiant muse Lina Romay as a sexually repressed woman tormented by visions of ‘the goddess of…
Just a few days before Halloween, we bring you a scary, strange and very surprising slasher. This not your typical Halloween knock-off but rather an utterly unique mix of horror, comedy and protracted tension that will have you gripping your…
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!…
Dress as a zombie and participate in this year's BEVO ZOMBIE WALK, and you'll get to see Fred Dekker's campy cult-classic homage to '50s sci-fi and horror, Night of the Creeps! Night of the Creeps, Fred Dekker's spoof/tribute to '50s-era…
Twenty-five years ago, Comedy Central debuted a show so strange, so acerbic, so damn funny that it lives on in the hearts and minds of everyone lucky enough to stumble across it while flipping through cable. We speak, of course,…
"Possibly my favorite movie of all time...hilarious, surprisingly tender, and lavishly, magnificently absurd. The black comedy of Drop Dead Gorgeous is guided by a deranged value system that’s particular to the world of teen-age girls." -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker…
“Dumb as a bag of rocks - but it’s funny, god damn it!” -Birth.Movies.Death. Directed by Stewart Raffill (Mac and Me), TAMMY AND THE T-REX is a love story as old as time. This post-JURASSIC jam stars Denise Richards (Drop…
“There are few things as pure and inspirational (in all senses of the word) as The Muppet Movie. If the opening performance of 'Rainbow Connection' (or even more devastatingly, Gonzo’s 'I’m Going to Go Back There Someday') doesn’t speak to…
The Strange Brew cult film series returns to Arkadin Cinema with an emergency "Rock the Vote" Screening of the Chris Farley/ David Spade election-mishap comedy Black Sheep on Monday, November 4, just one day before the actual 2024 presidential election! Black Sheep was originally dismissed by critics as…
Nineteen-year-old Loretta Young turns in a terrific and unheralded performance as Midnight Mary in the 1933 crime drama from MGM that possesses all of that studio’s gloss with Warner Brothers’ grit. Beginning in the courtroom where Mary is awaiting the verdict…
“Amadeus weaves a beautiful, tragic fable, enchanting to children and adults alike. It has gore, a pact with God, celebrity, a masked stranger, murder, and some of the best music ever written. What other film offers half as much?” The Guardian Hailed…
Live from Arkadin, it's FRIDAY NIGHT! As Lorne Michaels' venerable sketch-comedy behemoth Saturday Night Live enters its 50th season, we present a selection of classic bits. Hey, remember the Coneheads! Before your time? How about more cowbell? No, you're more…
“Remains Excellent! Some movies feel like home. You can watch them over and over again and never get bored. That is a wonderful feeling. It’s more than wonderful: it’s transcendent. It’s life-affirming. It just plain makes you feel good.” -Nathan…
“A cockeyed marvel of a comedy packed with amazing set pieces and glorious music.” -Chicago Tribune Only Joel and Ethan Coen, the fraternal director and producer team behind art-house hits such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo and masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre…
“Once you've seen this frantically weird musical, you won't look at cinema in quite the same way... Say you've seen anything like Dr T before and you'll only be fooling yourself." -BBC Here's a film, now more than 70 years…
Join FIST CITY in November for BURNING VENGEANCE (1989), and behold the power of "Brock Genesis"—the homunculus son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joe Don Baker. That's right, actor/bodybuilder/body double Robert Pentz was not only a stand-in for Arnold Schwarzenegger, but…
One of the best films you’ve never seen, SO THIS IS PARIS (1926) from comedic master Ernst Lubitsch is a delightful, Jazz Age bon-bon! Lubitsch deftly juggles the chaos of love and lies colliding in the most humorous of ways —…
ALL TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HAVE BEEN RESERVED! Washington University Libraries’ Film & Media Archive will project an assortment of decades-old educational films from its collection. The screening will be sometimes confounding, maybe informative, interactive, and a whole lot of…
From "I Love Rocky Road" to "Eat It" to "Amish Paradise" to "Word Crimes," parodymeister Weird Al Yankovic has been a fixture in the collective pop culture consciousness for nearly five decades now. Beloved by the old, the young, the…
"ONE OF THE 10 GREATEST COMEDIES OF THE 21ST CENTURY... Jake Kasdan’s merciless takedown of the modern music-biopic formula remains the final parodic word on the subject...a roll call of 20th century musical-genius clichés taken to sublimely ridiculous extremes" -Rolling…
