New York has changed. The art of stealing hasn’t.

A love letter to the Big Apple’s grittier corners, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is a new crime drama from writer-director Noah Segan, starring John Turturro alongside Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Buscemi, Tatiana Maslany, and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Harry Lehman is an aging pickpocket who plies his trade with ever-diminishing returns in a drastically changed New York. Wallets stuffed with cash have been replaced by easily cancelled credit cards, and Harry struggles to make ends meet as he cares for his disabled wife, Rosie. When he unwittingly purloins and fences a valuable USB stick, Harry finds himself in a race against time to return the loot or face the rage of a vengeful crime family.

With early acclaim for Turturro’s soulful performance and its portrait of a vanishing New York, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York brings old-school crime-movie cool to a city that never stops changing. Catch this acclaimed indie thriller on the big screen at The Frida Cinema!

From filmmaker Lance Hammer (Ballast) comes Queen at Sea, a devastating new drama starring Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche alongside screen legends Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall.

Amanda and her stepfather Martin struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother Leslie, who has dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible for making such a determination? As Amanda and Martin are forced to make increasingly difficult choices, the repercussions spiral out of their control.

Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival, this unflinching family drama has earned widespread critical acclaim.

Don’t miss out your chance to see La bola negra, the Oscars’ next big foreign language phenomenon, on the big screen at The Frida Cinema this November!

Spanning three different eras of Spanish history, La Bola Negra follows three men whose lives become mysteriously intertwined through secrets passed down through generations. From the shadow of the Spanish Civil War to a contemporary search for a forgotten family history, Los Javis (the name the two directors have lovingly been given over the years) weave together a sweeping queer epic about the people whose stories were erased.

The film’s Cannes premiere earned Los Javis the festival’s Best Director prize, it just won the prestigious Audience Award at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival (the first non-English language film to do so in fifteen years) and now…the Oscar buzz is very real. With Spain officially putting La Bola Negra forward for the 99th Academy Awards, the question is no longer whether this is one of the year’s major international films, it’s how far this extraordinary, wildly ambitious movie can go in the Best Picture race. 

Celebrate 100 Years of Buster Keaton’s comedy masterpiece The General courtesy of our friends at flickrhappy! And as an added bonus, acclaimed musician and film composer Cliff Retallick will be doing live accompaniment along with the film!

After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest comedies (and greatest films overall) ever made, this silent-era masterpiece is a dazzling showcase of Keaton’s breathtaking stunts and ingenious physical comedy. Ranked #18 on both the American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) and 100 Years…100 Laughs lists, it remains every bit as thrilling, hilarious, and astonishing as ever.

Our Nu-Classics series, hosted by the amazing Maggie Mae Fish, is going digital as we present a special screening of the 1999 science fiction action masterpiece The Matrix. And this month, Maggie is joined by super special guests Team 4 Star for a post-screening discussion! 

Keanu Reeves stars as Neo, a computer hacker who discovers that the world he knows is an elaborate illusion…and that the truth is far stranger than he could have imagined.

With Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, and Hugo Weaving delivering iconic performances, The Matrix is one of those very rare cases of a movie genuinely changing everything that came after it. Beneath the leather coats and slow-motion gunplay, there’s a mind-bending cyberpunk classic that still has plenty to say even 25+ years later.