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"A marvel of comic invention—and, more surprisingly, of astringent romance. The essence of the film is a love story that rises from mutual delusion, and that perspective makes this uproarious and antic comedy, in its moral soul, an essential work…
The image of Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock remains one of the most enduring images of the silent era -- and this image is from the film Safety Last, which was released on April 1, 1923. Safety Last is…
"Not only one of the greatest anime movies ever made, it is also one of the best science-fiction films of all time... The story of an artificial intelligence that evolves to such an extent that it demands to be treated as a…
"Tarkovsky stages his philosophical saga in the 'real world', and the ambiguities and field-tension he generates within that quite literally magical space makes us more aware, makes every detail of the landscape important. It makes the surroundings vivid. Soon we…
"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…
"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…
This July 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of international superstar Bruce Lee’s tragic, unexpected passing. In commemoration of his remarkable legacy to film & martial arts, the Strange Brew cult film series is hosting an action-packed screening of Bruce Lee’s…
“It is an enduring classic that has been imitated and alluded to numerous times its debut, but nothing has equaled or surpassed it.” -James Berardinelli, ReelViews Combining all of Hitchcock’s favorite motifs—voyeurism, obsession, forced perspective, and bombshell blondes—into a single film, Rear…
A night celebrating everyone’s favorite perpetually disheveled yet quietly brilliant detective: Lt. Columbo (played to the hilt by the lovable Peter Falk)! We’ll be throwing back some drinks while playing a classic episode on the big screen. A night you…
"Overpowering and otherworldly...It feels like a transmission from a different planet." -Bilge Ebiri, The Village Voice Celebrate the life and legacy of renegade New Hollywood auteur William Friedkin, who passed away on August 7, 2023. Though best known for the…
"A guiding light...It's got incredible gore. It's inspired so many horror films, it's just the proper way to do a slasher." -Jenna Ortega In this stylish, tongue-in-cheek slasher, a relentless killer is out to avenge the death of a young…
This whiskey-drinkin' Western matinee is presented by our friends at Switchgrass Spirits, who have devised some delicious specialty cocktails just for this event. Switchgrass will also be selling booze by the bottle -- perfect for a Christmas gift or just…
“A beautiful, brainy, touching and lilting romantic comedy that should touch the heartstrings of lovers and those yearning to be in love everywhere” -The Hollywood Reporter In 1977, college graduates Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) share…
“I love it when accomplished filmmakers and actors take the horror genre seriously, producing a film such as The Changeling, so elegant, respectable and very much akin to reading classic literature.” Chris Kent, RogerEbert.com The pinnacle of haunted house cinema, Peter Medak’s The…
"The Wizard of Oz has a wonderful surface of comedy and music, special effects and excitement, but we still watch it six decades later because its underlying story penetrates straight to the deepest insecurities of childhood, stirs them and then…
Before watching the Big Game, come enjoy some classic gridiron hilarity with the 3 Stooges and the Marx Brothers (plus a surprise or two)! The Three Stooges in THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS (1934)"Three Little Pigskins is one of the most enduringly…
“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!”…
“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…
