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"Like Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Georgiy Daneliya’s 1986 film Kin-dza-dza! is, at bottom, biting social satire disguised as dystopian science fiction. Deploying unabashedly absurdist humor, both films decry the alienating effects of bureaucracy, abhor the arbitrary terrors imposed by an authoritarian regime, and exhibit…
As our month-long Lost in the Desert series cruises along, stop off in a dusty little nowhere town and settle in for some gut-wrenching violence in the sweltering Arizona heat. This underrated, underseen, and unclassifiable horror-thriller plays out like a…
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!…
"A surprisingly spellbinding reimagining of one of cinema's most infamous disasters, CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT is a stunning achievement." -Stephanie Malone, Morbidly Beautiful 44 years after the 1980 release of historical epic CALIGULA, producer and reconstructionist Thomas Negovan has realized…
"A rivetingly murderous game of cat and mouse that keeps you on the edge of your seat." –Time Out In Steven Spielberg's first full-length movie, Duel, a traveling salesman (Dennis Weaver) is harassed by a menacing 40-ton truck on a…
"Ridley Scott’s dust-caked rush of female empowerment is an absolute thrill, thanks to engrossing performances from Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, and a sparkling debut script from Callie Khouri." –Times (UK) Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a…
One of the most amoral films not just of the Pre-Code era, but of Hollywood in general, is 1931’s “Night Nurse.” Star Barbara Stanwyck rolls her usual toughness into her earnest portrayal of nurse Lora Hart, a woman who sincerely…
Billed as "the first Iranian vampire western," Ana Lily Amipour's directorial debut A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (دختری در شب تنها به خانه میرود) follows the misadventures of a lone vampire girl who feasts on pimps and drug-dealers in a fictional Iranian…
“You’ve never seen a hellraiser quite like Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a film that stormed cinemas 60 years ago and, by God, still packs a punch.” The Guardian In the annals of petty Hollywood rivalries, few loom larger than…
“A vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever” -Scott Tobias, Guardian In 1991, Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho took the literary world by storm with its shocking depiction of the excesses of the 1980s as told through the devious actions…
It's J.D. Vance's worst nightmare! When a killer recliner falls in love with a girl, it's up to a disgraced Jewish Rabbi and a couple of brokenhearted detectives to figure out how to stop the bloody carnage that will follow.…
"A fourth-wall-shattering, stream-of-consciousness black comedy that mocks war, America, Hollywood, television, the music business and the Monkees themselves. These days, it is fondly remembered as one of the weirdest and best rock movies ever made." -Guardian Hey, hey, it’s the…
"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." -Roger…
In the mid-80s, the Philippines and Corazon Aquino’s administration are racked with political violence in the wake of the ousted Marcos regime. Small, decentralized squads of killers are assassinating police and military personnel in coordinated attacks. Multiple filmmakers attempted to…
"Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film, from 1975, is also in a way the ultimate film: its representation of depravity may be unsurpassable... Pasolini suggests that the classical values of Western civilization and the ostensibly progressive modernity that’s based on them…
"Bold, inventive and buttocks-out bonkers!" -The Incredible Suit One of the most absolutely nutso films of the 21st century is also one of the best. Pushing the boundaries of cinematic logic, Leos Carax's surrealist comedy-musical-Lynchian psychodrama extravaganza is a hallucinatory epic…
TINA! You fat lard! Come celebrate the 20th Anniversary of weirdo millennial cult film NAPOLEON DYNAMITE. Or do whatever you feel like you wanna do! GOSH! We'll have plenty of tots, friendship bracelets, pin the tail on the Liger and glamour…
Could the most ridiculed entry in the Friday the 13th franchise secretly be one of the best? Set in the year 2455, Jason X puts Jason Voorhees on a spaceship and launches him into the great beyond...with a gaggle of…
Nieces and nephews, grab your uncles. And uncles, pack up the nieces/ nephews in the car and head over to Arkadin Cinema for a pancake breakfast screening of the John Hughes classic UNCLE BUCK. Tickets include pancakes! "An innocent and…
"The Killing of a Sacred Deer is humane and satirical, horrifying and hilarious." -David Sims, The Atlantic In 2017, the godfather of Greek Weird Wave produced his darkest, strangest film, a horror film with the twisted logic of a Grimm's fairy…
