“A fresh and unforgettable cinematic experience. Built from samples of movies, public speeches, famous songs, and even memes… stitched together to create a vivid representation of American culture before and after the 2016 elections… You’ve never seen a film quite…
THE MENU (2022) presented by Dark Dream Cinema
“Director Mark Mylod satirizes a very specific kind of elitism here with his wildly over-the-top depiction of the gourmet food world.” Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com At $1250 a head, an evening at Hawthorne is an indulgence par excellence, promising the meal of a…
THE CHASE (1994) w/ 1994 Punk Music Video Pre-show @ 6:30 presented by Strange Brew
Charlie Sheen stars as a wrongly-convicted prison escapee named Jack Hammond who accidentally kidnaps wealthy heiress Natalie Voss (Kristy Swanson) while trying to flee the police in the underrated action comedy film The Chase (1994). As Jack tries to escape down a southern California highway to Mexico, an elaborate…
THE SWIMMER (1968) — “A boozy suburban nightmare” w/ Mad Men pre-show @ 4:15 pm
“A BOOZY, SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE…haunts viewers with memories that linger for years.” – Sean Burns, Crooked Marquee Before there was Mad Men, there was THE SWIMMER. One of the quintessential American films of the 1960s, THE SWIMMER is a sun-scorched and surreal suburban…
SOLD OUT — Charlie Chaplin’s THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) presented by Silents, Please! STL
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT. WAITLIST OPENS 30 MIN. BEFORE SHOWTIME. In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure…
SERIAL MOM (1994) — Celebrate Mother’s Day with John Waters!
“Sharply funny, wonderfully snarky, and a better satire of our true crime obsession than most anything this century—it remains a prescient, properly fun film without compare. It’s worth seeing for how titanically good Turner is alone.” – The Stranger The…
JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS (2001) — Sold Out!
“A misunderstood masterpiece! A fiendishly clever satire ahead of its time an unabashedly feel-good gag-a-minute romp in which the power of pure friendship saves the day.” – Collider In this boldly satirical adaptation of the popular 70’s animated series (itself…
STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997) — Sold Out!
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT. A WAITLIST WILL OPEN ONE HOUR BEFORE SHOWTIME. “One of the most misunderstood movies ever! A ruthlessly funny and keenly self-aware sendup of right-wing militarism” –The Atlantic From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga,…
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (2018) w/ The Coup pre-show @ 7:30pm
“Busy, boundless and brilliantly bonkers…a madcap Marxist adventure comedy!” -Irish Times Directed by The Coup’s Boots Riley, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU is a contemporary satirical classic, a Marxist takedown of capitalist exploitation wrapped in a workplace comedy with a massive…









