Microcinema in the heart of Bevo | 5228 Gravois Ave. | st. louis, mo 63116
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…
"96 minutes of grotesque, vomit-soaked bedlam – and David Cronenberg’s best film." -Adam Fleet, The Guardian Considered fairly gruesome in its day, the original 1958 The Fly looks like Mister Rogers' Neighborhood compared to this 1986 remake. Jeff Goldblum and Geena…
"#1 Must-See Obscure Sci-fi Movies You May Have Missed -- a post-apocalyptic film like no other." -Taste of Cinema A grimly compelling post-apocalyptic tale from visionary Polish director Piotr Szulkin, O-bi, O-ba: The End of Civilization is little known in…
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 $5. Early…
“A fairy tale for today: beautiful, shocking, and chilling.” -Neil Gaiman A gritty dark fantasy set among the backdrop of the Mexican drug war, Issa López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid traces the journey of five children as they fight to…
"The ’90s leather dykes of BloodSisters — in their mullets, corsets, and collars — reach their cuffed wrists through the screen as if to say: We were here, we were queer, and we were into some wild shit long before…
"A sleazy nostalgia-fest...watch Cruel Intentions for the wit, for nostalgia, for the fabulous couture, for the beautiful people and the lavish production." -Ready Steady Cut The film that made Demi Lovato realize she was queer, Cruel Intentions is late-'90s teensploitation at its…
Join filmmaker Justin Grubb for a screening of his film HELLBENT and conservation discussion surrounding Hellbenders with St. Louis Zoo Hellbender keepers Patty Ihrig-Bueckendorf and Brittany Philips. In a small rural town in Pennsylvania, the refuge of a rare salamander…
Each Monday in June, we're bringing you a surprise wild and wacky film for just 5 bucks! First up, an absolutely bizarre alien abduction movie featuring a hilariously off-beat performance by one of Hollywood's most beloved weirdo actors. The film…
Gleaming the Cube is the Citizen Kane of Skateboarding Detective movies! The film stars Christian Slater as Brian, an angsty skate punk whose world gets turned upside down when his adopted brother mysteriously dies. Between ditching class and skating empty…
Area premiere of microbudget indie comedy featuring a virtual Q&A with cast and crew following the film! Made for less than the monthly rent of the apartment it was filmed in, this unusual lo-fi comedy is a tribute to youthful…
