A groundbreaking depiction of the realities of teen life on network TV, maybe MY SO-CALLED LIFE was too good to last. Though it was infamously cancelled after just one season, this uncommonly smart teen drama’s influence ripples to this very…
Mary Pickford in LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY (1925) presented by Silents, Please! STL
“An exciting comedy!” – Battleship Pretension Mary Pickford plays a “tomboy of the tenements” in this comedy drama, which she also wrote. Filmed over ten weeks, LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY was shot entirely on a set created by art director John…
FRANKIE FREAKO (2024) — Friday Night WTF! — $6
“It’s intentionally cheesy, delightfully demented, entirely over-the-top, and makes no apologies for its juvenile jokes and abundant gore.” – Film Threat From gonzo indie filmmaker Steven Kostanski, director of PG: Psycho Goreman, comes this fun, frenzied late-night pizza party of…
GIRL, INTERRUPTED (1999)
“So valuable because it contains so little of the theatrics common to pop culture depictions of mental illness… The fundamental story, the core narrative of a young woman forced to confront her fundamental ambivalence towards life in a very strange…
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…
Mel Brooks’ underappreciated Hitchcock parody HIGH ANXIETY (1977)
“A riotous spoof of Alfred Hitchcock thrillers that doubles as a loving tribute to the master of suspense, Brooks reached his comedy peak with High Anxiety!” – Chuck O’Leary Like Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks’ underappreciated HIGH ANXIETY…
Alfred Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND (1945)
“The first picture on psychoanalysis is also a tale of suspense, and Hitchcock embellishes it with characteristically brilliant twists” – Time Out “The secret recesses of the mind are explored with brilliant and terrifying effect” (New York Herald Tribune) in…
TOP SECRET! (1984) — Val Kilmer stars in this hilarious cult-classic spy spoof
“ rock ‘n’ roll spy spoof may be the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team’s most consistent work… Val Kilmer is ridiculously charismatic!” – The AV Club In this outrageous comedy from the guys who brought you Airplane!, Val Kilmer…
POLICE SQUAD! Happy Hour — Best Eps + Drink Specials!
It sounded like a can’t-miss when the team behind Airplane! migrated to TV in 1982 for the half-hour cop-show parody Police Squad!, but the series floundered in the ratings, and was cancelled after only six episodes. Then, six years later, the characters returned…
I’M A CYBORG BUT THAT’S OK (2006)
“Witty, playful, romantic, tragic…a whole chocolate box of emotions in a highly decorative wrapping” – Variety An underseen and rarely screened offbeat romance from Park Chan-wook, the director of Oldboy and The Handmaiden, I’M A CYBORG BUT THAT’S OK is…