Microcinema in the heart of Bevo | 5228 Gravois Ave. | st. louis, mo 63116
You're going to miss Clueless on the backlot? Ugh, as if!! A modern teen update of the classic Jane Austen novel Emma, Clueless puts a novel spin on the time-honored "it's what's inside that counts" tale. Unlike most high-school fare, the film…
"No high school movie has ever come close to the bloodthirsty wit and sweet-faced nihilism of Heathers." -Entertainment Weekly A more scathing and trenchant teen movie has rarely been made than Heathers. Packaged and sold as a film about a group of…
"Perhaps the defining moment in ’s career-long dedication to lionizing Baltimore’s misfit population" -Nick Schager John Waters's first entrée into mainstream semi-respectability maintains his jubilantly subversive edge. Centered on "pleasantly plump" teen Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake, in her first screen role),…
The premiere screening of “Seashine The Cabin Sessions” a live performance short film of the band Seashine (Shoegaze/Dreampop) playing 3 songs in and around a cabin in the atmospheric Missouri countryside. The screening will take place at the Arkadin Cinema…
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 just $5.…
"One of the 100 greatest movies of all time!" -Empire At once a searing supernatural shocker and a sensitive portrait of high-school loneliness, Brian De Palma's Carrie shows that for a film to be truly terrifying, it helps if we…
Presented by long-time STL cult film series STRANGE BREW "Fright Night dances on a tightwire between satire and terror!" -Chicago Tribune Writer-director Tom Holland perfectly blends horror and comedy in this popular, well-made send-up of the old "Chiller Theater"-style horror shows…
"After you see Dead Alive, you want to race out of the theater and recommend it to your sickest friends right away." -Los Angeles Times The delightfully gonzo tale of a lovestruck teen and his zombified mother, Dead Alive is…
"The first true Hitchcock movie." -Alfred Hitchcock With his third feature film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. This haunting…
"A bloody visual feast...the most extravagant screen telling of the oft-filmed story." -Variety With dizzying cinematic tricks and astonishing performances, Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 version of the oft-filmed Dracula story is one of the most exuberant, extravagant films of the…
"An expressionist horror-ballet...The Masque of the Red Death moves with a sinuous, unselfconscious elegance." -The Guardian Death and debauchery reign in the castle of Prince Prospero (Vincent Price), and when it reigns, it pours! During a devastating 12th-century plague called…
"Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone -- no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House." -New York Times How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story?…
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 just $5.…
An independent music video and short film festival featuring the work of local filmmakers.
"A goony, gloomy, endlessly enjoyable joy-buzzer of a movie, one that merely needed a good thirty years or so for viewers to catch up with!" -Yahoo! Movies Unfairly derided upon its release for eschewing Michael Meyers in favor of a…
It's Halloween eve, and we'll be playing some whacked-out horror movies on the backlot all night long! Tickets reserve you a seat, where you can watch some or all of our night of insanity. The program will include... ZOMBIE: Lucio…
An independent music video and short film festival featuring the work of local filmmakers.
"Watching the film...I fell into a reverie, sometimes moved, sometimes amused, sometimes involved in a strange dreamlike way. By not alerting us with the logic of language, silent films can more easily slip us off into the shadows of fantasy."…
The Dudes Band will play a short acoustic set and then we will enjoy one of the greatest films to ever be created, The Big Lebowski.Doors at 7, band at 7:30, movie at 8:15
It's Drinkolas Cage: a monthly Nicolas 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 just…
