R18
This uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk give unforgettably harrowing performances as a married couple deeply in love but unable to express their ardor in terms the other can understand. This landmark American film is perhaps the most beloved work from the extraordinary John Cassavetes. "That sort of depth is rare in most movies; it's the trademark, however, of John Cassavetes." - Chicago Tribune "One of the rawest, toughest, most emotionally scalding portraits of a marriage ever put on screen." - The Telegraph COME EARLY! Doors 3:30pm, pre-show 4pm
PG
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer. "Savagely witty on backstage life and audaciously edited, Jazz stands alongside Cabaret as the best musical of the last 20 years." - Empire "makes something deeply human out of good, bad, weakness, strength, triumph, defeat and all that jazz." - Newsweek COME EARLY! Doors 7pm, pre-show 7:30pm
PG
Three 1960s California surfers (Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey) fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves. With breathtaking surfing footage and and excellent soudtrack - Directed by John Milius (Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn), co-writer Apocalypse Now. "A rubber stamp wouldn’t do for John Milius. So he took a sledgehammer and pounded Important all over Big Wednesday. This film about three Malibu surfers in the 1960s has been branded major statement and it’s got Big Ideas about adolescence, friendship and the 1960s." - Variety "What Big Wednesday has is heart." - The Guardian COME EARLY!
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Mel Brooks’ comedy spans the lowest to the highest in the course of this film, and there’s no joke he won’t mine mercilessly for the last little laugh. A testament to just how well surgical satire can undercut and expose the racist truths that lay under American history, BLAZING SADDLES allows us to confront the nation’s past while also laughing at it. Not only does Mel Brooks' film spoof the westerns of the mid-20th century excellently, it manages to talk about race and equality issues in a manner that is at once horrific and hilarious. The frank nature of the racial slurs reminds you how intolerant people back then really must have been, but then the over the top Looney Tunes inspired comedy shows just how ridiculous that kind of ignorance really was. Starring Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Madeline Khan, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens. Come early! Doors 5pm, Pre-show 5:30pm
R18Graphic violence
A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast living and fast loving socialite. COME EARLY! Doors one hour before start time, pre-show 30 mins before.
R16Graphic violence & offensive language.
Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and featuring an award-winning cast, Jamie Foxx stars as Django a slave who teams up with bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) to seek out the South's most wanted criminals with the promise of Django's freedom. Honing vital hunting skills, his one goal is to find and rescue the wife (Kerry Washington) he lost to the slave trade long ago. When their search ultimately leads to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the infamous and brutal proprietor of "Candyland", they arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's trusted house slave. Now their moves are marked and Candie's treacherous organisation closes in on them. COME EARLY! Doors 2pm, pre-show 2:30pm
PG
Be the first to see the 4k Restoration of the beloved, now cult classic LEGALLY BLONDE! Reece Witherspoon & Jennifer Coolidge pour so much humour and pizzaz into this film, it's the good time at the movies we all need. Pink Bubbles & more drink specials."Bend n Snap!" Spot prizes for best LB looks! Think Pink! SYNOPSIS: Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, while she is there she figures out that there is more to her than just looks. COME EARLY! Doors 7pm, pre-show 7:30pm
TBC
See it first at The Hollywood! Teenage boys Naim and Ryan strike up an unexpected connection. But when their bond draws the attention of their community, a ritual is performed on them, releasing a violent entity. An entity that takes the form of its victim's truest desire. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm
PG
Live it up today, your time is up tomorrow. In the Year of the City 2274, humans forsake the ravaged outer environment by living in a vast, bubbled metropolis. There, computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs and everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday. That's when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth. "A rewarding futuristic film that appeals both as spectacular-looking escapist adventure as well as intelligent drama." - Varitey COME EARLY! Doors 2pm, pre-show 3:30pm
R16Violence, sexual violence & offensive language
The much-lauded director of Westerns, Sergio Leone, gives us an epic saga of gangland America. Charting the lives of New York mobsters Noodles (Robert De Niro) and Max (James Woods) over four decades, the narrative is compelling and De Niro's controlled performance makes this a classic. "An epic poem of violence and greed." Chicago Sun-Times COME EARLY! Doors 1pm, pre-show 1:30pm - There will be a 10 mintue intermission at the half way point
R16Violence, horror & sex scenes
Directed by Dario Argento - Acclaimed by aficionados worldwide as “a breathtaking visual feast” and “up there with DEEP RED and SUSPIRIA” When a young opera singer (Cristina Marsillach, in her career-defining performance) is stalked by a masked psychopath, she will be forced into a grisly aria of murder, memories and unimaginable torment. Ian Charleson (CHARIOTS OF FIRE), Urbano Barberini (DEMONS), Antonella Vitale (THE CHURCH), Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni (MOTHER OF TEARS) and Daria Nicolodi (TENEBRE) co-star in this definitive presentation of “one of Argento’s best” (IndieWire) co-written by Franco Ferrini (PHENOMENA) with cinematography by Oscar® winner Ronnie Taylor (GANDHI) “ARGENTO’S LAST TRUE MASTERPIECE.” Diabolique Magazine COME EARLY - Doors 7pm, pre-show 7:30pm
R16Violence, offensive language & horror
A few weeks into their van life adventure, a young couple witnesses a horrific accident that leaves the driver dead. Soon they're being pursued by a demonic stalker who's impossible to outrun and follows them wherever they go. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm
PGScary scenes
Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them. Known for its surreal visuals, minimal dialogue, and intense, close-up cinematography, it is highly regarded for its unique take on ecological horror, often compared to a "psychedelic 2001". The sole feature film directed by acclaimed graphic artist Saul Bass, PHASE IV is a landmark of 1970s science fiction as it blends arresting visuals, photographed by Dick Bush (Sorcerer) along with nature photographer Ken Middleham, with a tense and harrowing animal attack narrative. Starring Nigel Davenport (Chariots of Fire), Michael Murphy (Nashville), and Lynne Frederick (Schizo) and featuring a mesmerizing musical score by electronic music pioneer Brian Gascoigne. Doors open 1 hour before start time.
MOffensive language
From writer-director John Carney (Sing Street, Once), POWER BALLAD is a feel-good story about music, self-respect, friendship, and the price of ambition. Starring Paul Rudd & Nick Jonas "Power Ballad is a movie that constantly surprises you by plucking chords of hope from a heartbreaking narrative." - RogerEbert.com "Power Ballad continues Carney's long run of success with yet another charmer. Of course, it's easy to charm when you have Paul Rudd as your center." - Screen Rant "Carney has offered a sharp, hopeful crowdpleaser that strikes the right notes." - The Film Stage COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm
PGLow level violence
In the pantheon of films about bad children, 1990's PROBLEM CHILD is up there with THE BAD SEED for terrifying tikes. When Junior heads home with his new family, he sets out on a warpath against them, the neighborhood children, clowns, cats and befriends a serial killer! With a streak of dark humor and great comic performances from John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Richards, Gilbert Gottfried and Jack Warden - PROBLEM CHILD may be almost 30 years old, but Junior is forever young. COME EARLY! Doors 3pm, pre-show 3:30pm
MOffensive language
You're invited to celebrate Prince's BIRTHDAY & his ongoing legacy by attending this screening of PURPLE RAIN! His Purple Majesty Prince Rogers Nelson plays “The Kid,” a Minneapolis musician who finds an escape from a turbulent home life through rehearsing and playing out with his band, The Revolution, locked in a competition for control of the city with rival band Morris Day and the Time, whose frontman conspires to turn The Kid’s disgruntled bandmates and girlfriend Apollonia against him. Part autobiographical psychodrama, part First Avenue nightclub dance party, and 110% Prince - so round up your friends, put on your best and Let’s Go Crazy. COME EARLY! Doors 5:30pm, pre-show 6pm
R13Sex scenes & offensive language
Jack Hazan and David Mingay’s Rude Boy follows on the heels of 'A Bigger Splash', their intimate observation of painter David Hockney’s artistic and personal struggles. Once again merging documentary and fiction, Rude Boy follows roughneck Ray Gange as he drops his Soho sex-shop job to roadie for The Clash—the most fiery, revolutionary rock ’n’ roll band of the era, seen in this film at the dizzying peak of their powers. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm
TBC
A darker reimagining of the classic Robin Hood tale, which will see the character as a battleworn loner grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, and who finds himself gravely injured and in the hands of a mysterious woman who offers him a chance at salvation. COME EARLY! Doors 7pm, pre-show 7:30pm
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The film features a fictional scientist, Dr. Nils Hellstrom (played by Lawrence Pressman), who argues that insects are superior to humans due to their adaptability, collective intelligence, and ruthless efficiency, and that they will ultimately inherit the Earth. It is described as a "quasi-documentary" or "horror pseudo-documentary" with an ominous tone. It won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, despite being a fictional narrative. Directed by Walon Green and Ed Spiegel, and produced by David L. Wolper, it was a major influence on Frank Herbert's novel Hellstrom's Hive. DOORS: One hour before start time, pre-show 30 mins before.
R13Violence, offensive language, drug use & content that may disturb
When Jules joins her new boyfriend on a New Year’s Eve getaway with his old high school mates, she’s looking to get some peace and quiet, smoke a bit of weed, and make some new friends. But when the holidaymakers stumble across their host’s long-forgotten stash of ancient weed, things quickly take a turn for the nightmarish. By the time they figure out the weed’s strange effect - an insatiable hunger for human flesh - it’s too late, and the four would-be friends become accidental cannibals. Their efforts to cover up their crime trigger a darkly comic spiral of panic, blame, and even more cannibalism that Jules is determined to survive - even if she’s the only one. COME EARLY! Doors 2pm, pre-show 2:30pm
PG
Co-presented with DocPlay: WELCOME SPACE BROTHERS unveils the true story of The Unarius Academy of Science, an extraterrestrial-channeling spiritual school in Southern California who in the late 1970s became a wildly prolific filmmaking collective under the direction of their outlandish spiritual leader Ruth E. Norman, AKA “Archangel Uriel.” “If I didn’t know Jodi Wille’s film, Welcome Space Brothers, was a documentary, I’d swear it was a WTF, insane, sci-fi tale of weirdness. The story of Ruth is fascinating….” - Film Threat "“As with (Wille’s) previous film The Source Family…she remains steadfastly non-judgemental about the unconventional spiritual utopian communitarianism that is so often dismissed as delusional hippy bullshit. Where corporate stooge David Letterman saw Uriel as one zany kook among an endless stream of “talent,” Wille accepts her as a significant historical figure—a flawed but visionary creative force for good in the world, deserving of our respect." - Artillery COME EARLY! Doors 5:30pm, pre-show 6pm *Get a month DocPlay subscription with your ticket.