Greetings, boils and ghouls! Join Nostalgic Nebula on March 18th at the Frida Cinema for a special 30th anniversary screaming of Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight. And make sure to stick around afterwards for an in-person Q&A with Emmy award-winning Special FX & Makeup Artist Todd Masters!
Show up early for the 8:00 PM pre-show to celebrate the Cryptkeeper’s directorial debut with Crypt trivia, lost and forgotten Crypt clips from commercials, movies and television, and if you can hack it, win yourself some goodies by trying your best Cryptkeeper impersonation! You’ll have to be dead on to win yourself a reprint of the original Tales from the Crypt comic book.
The story follows Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.
Are you ready for your deadtime story?
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Delight in Jean-Luc Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman, a playful and unconventional homage to the American musical and a bold experiment in the language of cinema presented in a new 4K restoration!
The film follows Angela (Anna Karina), a vivacious Parisian striptease artist who desperately wants to have a child. However, her boyfriend Émile (Jean-Claude Brialy) is reluctant, leading Angela to flirt with his best friend Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo) in an attempt to provoke jealousy and perhaps find a willing father. Blending humor, romance, and self-aware cinematic tricks, Godard deconstructs genre conventions with his signature jump cuts, bold color compositions, and fourth-wall-breaking dialogue.
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Experience the sensual in The Visitor, Bruce LaBruce’s new erotic comedy based on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s allegorical film Teorema.
London, today. A refugee washes up naked in a suitcase on the bank of the Thames. The enigmatic, sexually fluid stranger introduces himself to a bourgeois, upper class family. He is invited to stay on as an employee. The Visitor soon seduces each member of the family in a series of explicit sexual encounters. He will turn their world upside down as they are able to redefine themselves in new, radical ways.
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We continue to celebrate the legendary work of actor Gene Hackman, with Wes Anderson’s offbeat portrait of a particularly dysfunctional family, The Royal Tenenbaums, as her film programming pick.
The Tenenbaum siblings – Chas (Ben Stiller), Richie (Luke Wilson), and Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) – are all former child prodigies whose lives have unraveled into disappointment and dysfunction. Their estranged father, Royal Tenenbaum (the late, great Gene Hackman), a charming but deeply flawed man, announces he has a terminal illness in a desperate bid to reconnect with his family, forcing the Tenenbaums to reckon with their shared past and unresolved wounds under the same roof.
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards, the film remains one of Anderson’s most beloved works; a richly detailed tragicomedy that captures the beauty and absurdity of lost potential, and another iconic performance by two-time Oscar-winner Gene Hackman.
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Our second Volunteer Of The Month pick of March comes courtesy of Ben, who has selected the hilarious Abrahams/Zucker satire Top Secret! starring the one and only Val Kilmer!
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
Overshadowed slightly in the Abrahams/Zucker canon of comedy classics by the likes of Airplane! or the Naked Gun movies, Top Secret has gained cult classic over the years and makes for a hilarious time at the movies!
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The Frida Cinema’s In Defense Of… series for March circles all the way back to our Executive Director, Logan Crow, as he selects the 1992 Brad Pitt live action/cartoon hybrid Cool World!
A bizarre accident lands Frank Harris in Cool World, a realm of cartoons. Years later, cartoonist Jack Deebs, who’s been drawing Cool World, crosses over as well. He sets his lustful sights on animated femme fatale Holli Would, but she’s got plans of her own to become real, and it’s up to Frank to stop her.
Directed by legendary animator Ralph Bakshi, the film’s poor reception, coupled with its confusing narrative and mismatched tone, contributed to it being a major dud in the box office. While it has since gained a cult following (Logan included), general audiences still continue to reject it…until now!
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Our Page To Screen series takes an odyssey into the American South as we present the Coen Bros’ 2003 musical adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Join us for the 2025 remake of Street Trash, directed by Ryan Kruger (Fried Barry) and starring Sean Cameron Michael and Donna Cormack Thomson!
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1940’s Dance, Girl, Dance, directed by Dorothy Arzner, is a groundbreaking and feminist-tinged drama that explores the struggles of women in the entertainment industry.
The film follows Judy O’Brien (Maureen O’Hara), a classically trained ballet dancer with dreams of artistic success, who finds herself working alongside the bold and ambitious Bubbles (Lucille Ball), a brassy burlesque performer. As their careers take divergent paths — Judy yearning for legitimacy while Bubbles embraces the spotlight — the two women become rivals in both dance and love, particularly over the affections of a wealthy playboy (Louis Hayward).
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The shopping mall becomes a dance hall in 1986’s Golden Eighties, a vibrant and stylized musical closing out our Chantal Akerman Month series.
The film follows a group of sales clerks, customers, and shop owners whose romantic entanglements unfold in a world of brightly lit storefronts and choreographed musical numbers. At the center of the story is a love triangle involving a young woman torn between a stable but dull suitor and a passionate but unreliable lover, reflecting themes of longing and disillusionment.
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