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Beloved screwball comedy classic, Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby, is the story of how paleontologist, David Huxley’s (Cary Grant) orderly, conventional, soon-to-be-settled life is spectacularly demolished once he meets flighty, madcap heiress, Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn). Susan happens to be the niece of the wealthy donor David is cultivating for his museum, and she falls […]
Arguably the greatest movie ever made about Hollywood, Billy Wilder’s noir masterpiece is a deliciously acerbic look at the sad spectacle that is the life of former silent screen star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). Despite losing her film career with the advent of sound, Norma delusionally plans her comeback film, aided and abetted by a […]
Hud is a blistering western that broke ground in its depiction of an unglamorous West and in the decidedly anti-heroic nature of its lead. Hud Bannon (Paul Newman) is a ruthless, arrogant young man, who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches -from his highly principled father and impressionable nephew to the family housekeeper (Oscar winner […]
When The Exorcist was originally released in 1973, audiences packed theaters only to be plagued with nightmares, due to the disturbing images on screen. Today, the story involving a little girl, a tormented priest, and the Devil, still shocks and haunts. When a distraught mom calls on Father Karras to help mend her daughter, he’s […]
Often hailed as one of the greatest horror films ever made, Rosemary’s Baby is a chilling tale of Satanism and pregnancy made even more disturbing thanks to convincing, committed performances by Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Farrow) and her struggling actor husband Guy (John Cassavetes) move to a New York City apartment […]
FREE for kids 12 & younger! When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan, and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City, and it’s up to Shaun and the […]
Famously dubbed the voice of a generation, Kurt Cobain was a rock legend. He was also a real person, as illustrated in the empathetic documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Through home movie clips, animation, rare concert footage, and pointed interviews, Kurt’s life unfolds in a colorful mash up of images that draw the viewer […]
Produced by master filmmakers, Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, The Look of Silence is Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing. In this powerfully moving film, survivors of the 1965 Indonesian genocide face the men responsible for incomprehensible atrocities. The focus is on Adi, a traveling optometrist, whose family was devastated […]
Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) stars as Will Henry, a newly single dad doing his best to raise his young daughters. Will, a graphic novelist and art teacher, finds his life turned upside down when, during his adorable twin girls’ fifth birthday party, he walks in on the mother of his children in bed […]
The L.A. Times called the late David Foster Wallace “one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years.” His talent was especially evident in his novel Infinite Jest, a tale of existential crisis set in a dryly-humorous future world. The End of the Tour is a cinematic account of a never […]