One…last…plan.
Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is back for a late night party screening at The Frida Cinema!
As the long-gestating feature expansion of the cult Canadian series Nirvanna the Band the Show, created by and starring Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol, the film continues the misadventures of the two best friends. As relentlessly delusional Toronto musicians, their main goal in life is to “play a show at the Rivoli.” When their plan goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
Like the series, the movie blurs fiction and reality, staging elaborate public pranks with unsuspecting bystanders while escalating the characters’ schemes to increasingly absurd and self-destructive extremes. If you love comedy that feels like it might collapse at any second, or perhaps maybe even get its creators thrown in jail, boy do we have a movie for you and your friends to come see!
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Two hunts. Two eras. One ultimate killing machine.
Join us on Thursday, February 26th as we present both the original 1987 Predator with its 2025 predecessor Predator: Badlands in an awesome double feature hosted by Jordan Morris, the author of the upcoming Marvel comic Predator: Bloodshed!
First up is John McTiernan’s Predator (1987), which drops a team of elite commandos into the Central American jungle on what should be a routine rescue mission, only to reveal they’re being stalked by something far deadlier than any human enemy.
Then, after a short intermission, it’s time for Predator: Badlands! This contemporary sequel brings the hunt roaring into a new frontier. Trading dense jungle for harsh, open terrain where old rules no longer apply.
Doors open at 6:15PM and the films will start at 7:00PM after a brief introduction. Tickets are $15, there will be a ten minute intermission between the films, and our host for the evening, Jordan Morris (co-host of the excellent and long-running podcast Jordan Jesse Go) will be selling and signing comics in the lobby before, between, and after the films!
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Grab your history books and cruise on over to The Frida Cinema as Moviebusters are back to present a most triumphant screening of the 1989 cult classic Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure! And be sure to stay after the screening for an in-person Q&A with special guests Diane Franklin and Kimberly Kates, who played the role of Princess Joanna and Princess Elizabeth, respectively.
Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus’ time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
Anchored by the endlessly likable pairing of Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, the film zips through history with Socrates, Napoleon, and Joan of Arc in tow, but never loses sight of its big heart. Beneath the goofy catchphrases and mall-set mayhem is a surprisingly sincere belief in the power of showing up for one another.
Diane and Kimberly will also be signing autographs in the lobby before the film, so make sure to get there early!
This program is a venue rental engagement. The views and opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of The Frida Cinema or its staff. Membership discounts and comp passes do not apply. Doors open at 8:00PM and the film will begin at 8:30PM.
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Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing Obex, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
Baltimore-based writer-director Albert Birney (Strawberry Mansion, 2021 Sundance Film Festival) returns with another delightfully skewed and surreal lo-fi fantasy. Set in pre-internet 1987 and strikingly shot in monochromatic black and white, the film depicts Conor’s (Birney) lonely existence of solitary screen time, transfixed by early Macs with slowly rendering graphics and TVs aglow with the horror movie late show.
Matching these hypnotic images, Birney immerses us in a dense soundscape of warm droning synths, clacking keyboards, malevolent static, chirping cicadas, and the click and whine of dot matrix printers. The film’s dreamy nostalgia soon becomes an analog nightmare as Conor finds himself trapped in a low-tech but high-stakes video game.
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It’s as real as the feelings you feel.
This season, we honor the extraordinary legacy of Rob Reiner with some screenings of one of his most beloved films: the timeless and irresistibly funny fairy-tale adventure The Princess Bride.
When young Buttercup (Robin Wright in a luminous breakout performance) loses her true love Westley (Cary Elwes), she vows never to love again. Until fate, pirates, politics, giants, miracles, and rodents of unusual size intervene, of course. Told through the framing device of a grandfather (Peter Falk) reading a bedtime story to his skeptical grandson (Fred Savage), the film becomes a celebration of imagination itself.
Few filmmakers moved so effortlessly between genres as Rob Reiner. From coming-of-age classics to sharp-edged comedy to pulse-pounding thrillers, his filmography is a tour of American movie magic. But The Princess Bride remains his most universally cherished creation.
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We heard your voices! Or more specifically…we heard one person’s voice that’s been asking us to play Monkeybone every month for the past few years. And now it’s time to celebrate 25 years of Henry Selick’s cult classic!
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilarious alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu’s body and escapes to wreak havoc on the real world, Stu has to find a way to stop him before his sister pulls the plug on reality forever!
Upon release, Monkeybone was considered a commercial and critical failure. Audiences didn’t know what to make of its surreal blend of live action, stop-motion animation, adult humor, grim fantasy–the list goes on and on. But over time, that same strangeness became its appeal. Fans of “how did a major studio make this?” type of films should be lining up around the block for this one.
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Goofy is back, baby! You’ve been asking, so we’re happy to oblige: we’ve added some encores of A Goofy Movie for the weekend of January 23rd-25th!
Max Goof just wants to impress his crush, Roxanne. His dad, Goofy, just wants to spend some quality time with his rapidly growing son. The solution, naturally, is a chaotic fishing trip that somehow spirals into a runaway adventure involving Bigfoot, disastrous campgrounds, a stolen map, and an arena-size performance by Powerline (or as our Director Of Programming often calls him…Livewire?) the brightest star in the animated pop universe.
A Goofy Movie isn’t just nostalgia. It’s a 1990s Disney outlier with real personality that doubles as a genuinely heartfelt teen comedy. Come see it on the big screen with a goofed-up crowd!
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The first film in our 13-film Humphrey Bogart retrospective is To Have and Have Not, the film that introduced the world to the electric pairing of Bogie and Bacall!
Set in wartime Martinique, Bogart plays a tough American boat captain trying to stay neutral while Bacall arrives as a mysterious young drifter with a cigarette, a razor-sharp wit, and a look that could stop the story cold. What begins as a smoldering battle of nerves soon pulls both into a dangerous resistance plot.
Directed by Howard Hawks and written in part by William Faulkner, To Have and Have Not belongs entirely to its stars, launching one of cinema’s most iconic romances.
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Yeah, we’ll play Porco Rosso…when pigs can fly! Wait.
The 1992 animated masterpiece Porco Rosso is zooming back to The Frida Cinema as our Volunteer Of The Month pick in December, courtesy of Emily!
In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew’s American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.
Blending old-Hollywood romance, slapstick comedy, and some of the most breathtaking aerial animation Studio Ghibli ever created, Porco Rosso is one of Miyazaki’s most underrated gems and a must-see on the big screen! Fly on over!
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David Lowery’s The Green Knight is coming back to The Frida Cinema just in time for a special Christmas season screening! And as an added bonus, we are excited to announce we’ll be doing a post-screening Q&A with Production Designer Jade Healy!
Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain, a would-be knight whose perilous quest leads him through a landscape of ghosts, giants, and everything in-between. On Christmas Day, a mysterious giant figure–the Green Knight, half man and half tree — rides into Camelot and challenges any knight to strike him with his axe, on the condition that the Green Knight may return the same blow one year later. Seeking to prove his worth, Gawain steps forward to stand up to the task. The rest, they say, is the stuff of Arthurian legend.
Depicted with painterly precision, The Green Knight crafts a medieval world that feels both ancient and alive. The mud, candlelight, snow, and shadows will remain stuck in our brains forever and is a definitive entry into the new Christmas cult canon.
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