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Hocus Pocus (1993)

BUY TICKETS NOW You're in for a devil of a time when three outlandishly wild witches -- Bette Midler (BEACHES, BIG BUSINESS), Sarah Jessica Parker (HONEYMOON IN VEGAS), and Kathy Najimy (SISTER ACT) -- return from 17th-century Salem after they're…

THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019)

Part of Arkadin’s Cooped Up series, spotlighting films that speak to our past year of life under lockdown.  A weirdo, black-and-white two-hander in which Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe attempt to out-crazy each other as dual “wickies” of a lighthouse…

$9

GREY GARDENS (1975)

Part of Arkadin’s Cooped Up series, spotlighting films that speak to our past year of life under lockdown.  In this cult-classic documentary, mother-and-daughter eccentrics Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith Bouvier Beale (known affectionately as Big Edie and Little Edie)…

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TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992)

“A torrid journey through the subconscious of a little girl lost,” per Slant Magazine’s Ed Gonzalez, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me twists the folksy surrealism of David Lynch’s beloved cult TV series into blistering, nightmarish terror. Widely panned upon…

$9

PART TIME feat. Q&A with director Stryker Spurlock

World Premiere! Local filmmaker Stryker Spurlock’s debut feature is an abstruse and challenging work that captures with droll black humor the anxious torpor of go-nowhere middle-class life. Set amidst the drab, freeway-clogged suburbia of North St. Louis County, Part Time…

$9

PART TIME feat. Q&A with director Stryker Spurlock (2nd show added!)

World Premiere! Local filmmaker Stryker Spurlock’s debut feature is an abstruse and challenging work that captures with droll black humor the anxious torpor of go-nowhere middle-class life. Set amidst the drab, freeway-clogged suburbia of North St. Louis County, Part Time…

$9

A Night of Chaplin: THE KID (1921) w/ THE IDLE CLASS (1921)

Part of Arkadin’s CENTURY-OLD CINEMA series, spotlighting movies celebrating their 100th anniversary “Arguably Chaplin’s most personal and autobiographical work,” according to biographer Jeffrey Vance, The Kid marked a watershed moment in the legendary silent comedian’s career. Chaplin’s first feature after…

$5

Cryptozoo (2021) — St. Louis premiere!

"One of the most gorgeous works of American animation in ages." -The Film Stage  Mixing the drily ironic wit of Wes Anderson with the most hypnotically beautiful hand-drawn animation this side of Fantastic Planet, Dash Shaw's Cryptozoo is a psychedelic…

FREE MOVIE: The Freshman (1925) presented by Silents, Please STL

"Gag for gag, Lloyd was the funniest screen comic of his time." -Dave Kehr Silents, Please STL presents free silent films at the Arkadin, kicking off with Harold Lloyd's classic college comedy, The Freshman. A massive box-office smash in its…

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Ghost World (2001)

20th anniversary! "One of the best portraits of teen anomie this side of Catcher in the Rye." -Austin Chronicle Adapted from the sardonic graphic novel by cult comics legend Daniel Clowes (who also co-wrote the screenplay), Ghost World is bitter,…

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Hairspray (1988)

"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),…

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CRANK (2006) presented by Strange Brew

Presented by STRANGE BREW, St. Louis's long-running cult film series! "The world needs a movie like Crank...bold, wild, stupid, and fun." -AllMovie An outrageous thriller that operates on video-game logic and explodes with the rapid-fire assault of a Kalashnikov, Crank is…

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