Microcinema in the heart of Bevo | 5228 Gravois Ave. | st. louis, mo 63116
For just $3, catch a wild, ultra-violent, yet—in its ultra-low budget way—elegant spectacle of action-oriented sci-fi featuring some of the wildest gun battles this side of Hong Kong. Synthesizing a host of '80s action/sci-fi influences, from the future-noir panache of…
It’s DRINKOLAS CAGE! Our monthly surprise Nic Cage movie drinking game event. Each month we select a Cage film and write a drinking game for you to play along with. Two showtimes, 6:30 pm and 9 pm. Weather permitting, the…
“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.…
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 aerobics tape, a training video, a home movie. Anything! But there’s an incentive to bring us…
Grab a drink and tap into the pure imaginative delight of Pendleton Ward's contemporary classic cartoon Adventure Time. We'll be playing some of the best episodes plus fun clips, so break out your Finn hat and entrance yourself with the…
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT “A modern Goonies.” —The Daily Beast Combining the deadpan whimsy of Moonrise Kingdom with the bold high jinks of The Goonies, Weston Razooli's RIDDLE OF FIRE is a fresh, funny, and endlessly charming adventure film…
An unforgettable evening of food and film all in Bevo! Our neighbors Vegan Deli & Butcher have teamed up with us our first Dinner and a Movie event featuring THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE. Tickets for the event include both dinner and…
For just three measly dollars, you can see an utterly unclassifiable mind-melter packed to the gills with psychedelic imagery, gonzo philosophy, and a battle for the fate of the universe. Little seen but much remembered by anyone who has, this…
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 particularly excellent chance we can get you into the 9 pm show! It’s DRINKOLAS…
Gateway City Slam regularly presents a curated night of rare, hard-to-find wrestling entertainment on the big screen. Always packed with excitement. Always 100% free. The Von Erich family is synonymous with two things- Pro wrestling in Texas and unimaginable tragedy.…
Feel the power of the greatest arena-glam rock band of all time with our QUEEN HAPPY HOUR, featuring music videos, concert clips, and more! Rock out as Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon provide the perfect accompaniment…
"A deserved cult-classic with the widest of appeal. It’s camp, it’s silly, it’s funny and it manages to update the Boys Own charm of the original serials." -Film Authority Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming…
"Extremely enjoyable cult parody of the classic 1930s serial... Witness the attack of the dreaded Penisaurus! Behold Prince Precious’ Reward! Beware the initiation of the underground lesbians! With everything from stop-motion animation monsters to some truly Freudian art design, cult-film…
“If there’s any movie that’s been made since I’ve been making movies that I wish I had made, it’s ." -Quentin Tarantino In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the…
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. “So gentlemen prefer blondes, do they?” Jean Harlow trades…
“A simply wondrous film... Hauntingly beautiful and highly underrated.” -Toho Kingdom Just in time for mushroom-hunting season in Missouri, the Strange Brew cult movie night is flipping the script: the mushrooms will be hunting you with this psychedelic screening of Matango a.k.a. Attack of…
“This really very scary Japanese ghost story from director Hideo Nakata exerts a chilling grip with its icy calm and eerie reticence.” -The Guardian Swooning, atmospheric, and deliberately paced, Dark Water is an unsung classic of Japanese horror. Taking its time to…
COWABUNGA, DUDE! Before the live-action film hit theaters, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were already famous from their kickass Saturday morning cartoon. Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael take on a rogues' gallery of near-surrealist supervillains, from the tentacled evil brain…
"STILL AMAZING...The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is a wonder of practical effects and surprising martial arts action." -Den of Geek Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie is the live-action, feature film adaptation of the cult comic book and…
"A fantastically executed assemblage of animated flotsam punctuated with moments of dry humor and a heartbreaking final montage which gives the film its message - make every moment count." -Time Out A hallucinatory flurry of images animated in an ever-shifting…
