Only monsters play God.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, the movie he was born to make, is finally coming alive at The Frida Cinema starting on February 27th!

The story follows a brilliant but egotistical scientist (played by Oscar Isaac) who brings a monstrous creature to life in a daring experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

The film has now received 9 Academy Award nominations for the 98th Academy Awards (2026), including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Jacob Elordi’s transformative performance as The Monster. The film also scored major technical nominations for cinematography, original score, costume design, makeup/hairstyling, production design, and sound. 

Thank you to Netflix for allowing us to play this gorgeous creation where it belongs to be seen: on the big screen.

Sirât, the buzzy new film from director Oliver Laxe, is making its way to The Frida Cinema hot off of the heels of getting nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film!

The story follows a man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.

Sirât won the prestigious Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and continues to stack up awards worldwide. Critics are praising the film for being one of the most intense and original films of 2025, with many noting that it demands to be seen on the big screen. Now’s your chance!

Take flight with Robert Altman’s surreal fantasy Brewster McCloud, kicking off our three film tribute to beloved character actor Bud Cort! 

Brewster (Cort) is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans. While a young tour guide befriends Brewster and tries to get to know him better, the Houston police struggle to solve a sudden rash of strangulation murders.

A quirky comedy with a pronounced dark streak, Brewster McCloud is one of Altman’s most delightfully strange films, often forgotten amongst his myriad of filmic masterpieces. You know how people say “they don’t make ’em like this anymore”? Well, they really don’t make ’em like this anymore. 

Next season’s fashion victim, Idiotka, is coming to The Frida Cinema. Premiering at last year’s SXSW, it’s a hilarious send-up of the worlds of fashion and reality television.

In this sharp, irreverent comedy, a disgraced fashion designer with a dangerously low credit score, Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov) enters a reality show with a six-figure cash prize to save her babushka’s West Hollywood apartment. But as the competition intensifies, slick producer Nicol (Camila Mendes) pushes her to spin her family’s struggle into spectacle, forcing Margarita to decide whether to play along or take control of her own narrative, one unhinged look at a time.

The past, present, and future. One man’s dreams…for every dreamer. We are concluding our fourteen film retrospective paying tribute to the great Akira Kurosawa with his surrealist masterpiece Dreams.

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Dreams holds a unique place in Akira Kurosawa’s career and reputation. It’s often regarded as one of his most personal and spiritual works–a literal painting of his imagination come to life. Don’t miss a chance to see it on the big screen!

Baz Luhrmann’s electrifying reimagining of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet is bursting back onto the big screen at The Frida Cinema!

In this contemporary (to 1996, at least) take on William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard’s dialogue remains.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes at the height of ’90s stardom, Romeo + Juliet is a charming MTV-era style take on the timeless tragedy with a proper pop soundtrack and a love that burns eternal.