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“ wonderfully vivid sexual nightmare that’s one of Franco’s best” -Mondo Esoterica MACUMBA SEXUAL is a late-career masterpiece starring (of course, again) Franco’s wife and radiant muse Lina Romay as a sexually repressed woman tormented by visions of ‘the goddess of…
Just a few days before Halloween, we bring you a scary, strange and very surprising slasher. This not your typical Halloween knock-off but rather an utterly unique mix of horror, comedy and protracted tension that will have you gripping your…
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!…
Twenty-five years ago, Comedy Central debuted a show so strange, so acerbic, so damn funny that it lives on in the hearts and minds of everyone lucky enough to stumble across it while flipping through cable. We speak, of course,…
"Possibly my favorite movie of all time...hilarious, surprisingly tender, and lavishly, magnificently absurd. The black comedy of Drop Dead Gorgeous is guided by a deranged value system that’s particular to the world of teen-age girls." -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker…
“Dumb as a bag of rocks - but it’s funny, god damn it!” -Birth.Movies.Death. Directed by Stewart Raffill (Mac and Me), TAMMY AND THE T-REX is a love story as old as time. This post-JURASSIC jam stars Denise Richards (Drop…
“There are few things as pure and inspirational (in all senses of the word) as The Muppet Movie. If the opening performance of 'Rainbow Connection' (or even more devastatingly, Gonzo’s 'I’m Going to Go Back There Someday') doesn’t speak to…
The Strange Brew cult film series returns to Arkadin Cinema with an emergency "Rock the Vote" Screening of the Chris Farley/ David Spade election-mishap comedy Black Sheep on Monday, November 4, just one day before the actual 2024 presidential election! Black Sheep was originally dismissed by critics as…
Nineteen-year-old Loretta Young turns in a terrific and unheralded performance as Midnight Mary in the 1933 crime drama from MGM that possesses all of that studio’s gloss with Warner Brothers’ grit. Beginning in the courtroom where Mary is awaiting the verdict…
“Amadeus weaves a beautiful, tragic fable, enchanting to children and adults alike. It has gore, a pact with God, celebrity, a masked stranger, murder, and some of the best music ever written. What other film offers half as much?” The Guardian Hailed…
ALL TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HAVE BEEN RESERVED! Washington University Libraries’ Film & Media Archive will project an assortment of decades-old educational films from its collection. The screening will be sometimes confounding, maybe informative, interactive, and a whole lot of…
From "I Love Rocky Road" to "Eat It" to "Amish Paradise" to "Word Crimes," parodymeister Weird Al Yankovic has been a fixture in the collective pop culture consciousness for nearly five decades now. Beloved by the old, the young, the…
"ONE OF THE 10 GREATEST COMEDIES OF THE 21ST CENTURY... Jake Kasdan’s merciless takedown of the modern music-biopic formula remains the final parodic word on the subject...a roll call of 20th century musical-genius clichés taken to sublimely ridiculous extremes" -Rolling…
We owe so much to Tim and Eric, not least for gifting us the immaculate comedic creation that is Dr. Steve Brule, a public access TV with zero social skills and even zero-er shame response. Played to bug-eyed, speech-slurring perfection…
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT “A bravura cinematic essay that intertwines jazz, history, and the taste of a spy thriller…what Grimonprez creates here is a mind-blowingly rich tapestry of research, music, and the jazziest history lesson imaginable.” -Harper's Bazaar United…
A distanced couple decide to take in a seemingly innocent pregnant woman in hopes of adopting her unborn child. However, there is more to a book than its cover. Starring SNL alums Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell playing it straight,…
"A timeless American masterpiece... one of the best movies about America of all time!" -Forbes Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American…
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…
"One of 10 great horror films of the decade so far. A schizophrenic skedaddle from reality...ending with one hell of a hangover. The ensuing cavalcade of unease and wrong disturbs and repels, both in equal measure, and in the best…
"ONE OF THE 100 BEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME... the ultimate cult film for a newly liberated generation" -Variety Take center stage with the Blaine community players as they prepare for the town’s sesquicentennial celebration and a stage musical that they’re all…
