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“Deserves to be in the Favorite Christmas Movies pantheon!” -Salon A surprisingly smart, knowingly over-the-top, endlessly quotable action movie inexplicably set at Christmas? You know you're watching a Shane Black-scripted joint! While Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Lethal Weapon tend…
Watch two of the cheesiest Christmas movies of all time and win prizes by playing B-Movie Bingo! Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Commonly considered one of the worst movies of all time, SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS was made famous…
Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales, which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come.…
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 with an accompanying drinking game hand-written by us! Tickets are…
“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…
“A seasonal must-watch and a lesbian classic” -Jillian Eugenios, NBC Based on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt, CAROL is an aching, slow-burn romance between two women of very different backgrounds. A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet…
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell is the sixth and final film of the beloved "Baby Cart Assassin" '70s cult series. Starring the incredible Tomisaburō Wakayama reprising his role as the deadly Lone Wolf, this culminating entry continues the story of wandering sword-for-hire Ogami Ittō (Wakayama) as…
“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…
SOLD OUT! WAITLIST OPENS AT 6:30. "Bursting at the seams with memorable characters, beautiful set pieces, and an inimitable performance by David Bowie." -Polygon A campy '80s fantasy, Labyrinth brings together some of the leaders in the genre to assemble…
"TIME BANDITS is rife with visual, physical and thematic exaggerations that stretch the boundaries of cinematic conventions to form a crazed comedic concoction." -Ioncinema In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig…
"A gonzo, anything-goes extravaganza!" -Q Network In The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, Karel Zeman conjures the adventures of the legendary, boastful baron, whose whirlwind exploits take him from the moon to eighteenth-century Turkey to the belly of a whale and beyond. A kaleidoscopic…
Do you love cheesy thrillers with over-the-top plots and characters? Then you’ll love Dangerous Medicine, which tells the story of Tony, a handsome athlete who loses the use of his legs in a car crash. He is helped to walk…
"Every now and then, a film comes along that is so original and made with such clear passion that it almost takes you a moment to catch your breath. Christiane Cegavske's BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING is precisely such a…
Every month, we play 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…
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. WAITLIST OPENS AT 6:30 PM ON THE NIGHT OF THE SHOW. "This 1982 live action puppet film...will haunt the very essence of your being." -Esquire Jim Henson was a visionary artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker who…
"A fairytale of the very best kind, with luscious effects which include a flying dragon, a rock monster, a fairy princess (mercifully grave and untwee), and a threat in whose vanquishing lies hope." -Time Out Do you believe in the…
A double feature of classic fairytales NOT adapted by Disney. Just $4 for each film or $6 for the double feature. You know The Little Mermaid and Bambi. They're both stone-cold Disney classics, right? Sure, but they're also timeless fairytales…
"Beautiful and strange from beginning to end, Jaromil Jireš’s Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a film like no other. It’s fairy tale, horror movie, and coming-of-age story all at once, like Alice in Wonderland with medieval and religious overtones." -Criterion A girl…
"Surreal, unnerving, and upsetting...NIGHTMARE FUEL." -Film School Rejects If you thought the Wicked Witch of the West was scary, wait until you see the horrors that await Dorothy in RETURN TO OZ, the dark and twisted sequel to the beloved…
"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…
