DIRECTOR OF THE MONTH: Sam Raimi – MAY 2022
Join us this May for our Director of the Month: Sam Raimi series, highlighting the alternately horrifying and hilarious films of the Evil Dead auteur!
Bo Burnham: Inside Encore!
Thursday night’s screening of Bo Burnham’s already-iconic comedy special Inside is sold out! By popular demand, we’ve just added an encore screening this Friday, July 23rd at 7:45pm! Don’t miss what Tech Radar is calling “a dazzling and electric one man show” where it deserves to be experienced – on the big screen! Nominated for […]
Y2K Films: The Radical Legacy of Tom Green
A dive into the work of Tom Green and the legacy left behind in the twenty years since his infamous 2001 “comedy”. Prepare the sausage.
The Weird Shall Inherit: A Tour Through 5 Misfit Musicals
A tour through the weird world of alternative and offbeat musicals.
Y2k Films: ‘Monkeybone’ At 20
It has been twenty years since the release of Henry Selick’s 2001 fantasy comedy. Austin Jaye goes Down Town in a deep look at the film and its history.
Harold And Maude: Life, Death, & Sunflowers
A personal poem delving into the power of Hal Ashby’s 1971 dark comic masterwork.
Writer’s Room Survey: Rocky Horror Picture Show
For 45 years and counting, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has existed as a load-bearing cultural object of fringe, arthouse weirdness just outside of the mainstream.
Willy’s Wonderland + Psycho Goreman Double Feature
Join us on Thursday, February 18th at 7:00pm at Tustin’s Mess Hall Market for a horror-comedy double feature of Willy’s Wonderland + Psycho Goreman!
Y2K FILMS: ‘THE GRINCH’ AT 20
Austin Jaye evaluates Ron Howard’s Dr. Seuss adaptation on its twentieth anniversary — and ponders whether or not it has stood the test of time.
Serious Movies for Serious Men: The 4 Most Underrated Coen Brothers Films
He has risen! After some 20 years of rumors and false starts, Jesus Quintana, the unofficial breakout star of The Big Lebowski, has finally got a movie of his own! As much a remake of the French dramedy Going Places as it is a Big Lebowski spin-off, The Jesus Rolls sees John Turturro not only step back into the infamous purple bowling gear but into the director’s chair as well.
Sensory Overload: The Fantastical Films of Ken Russell
Love is in the air, but so is something else this month at the Frida! Our second WTF Wednesday screening commemorates the 40th anniversary of Altered States with a vibrant new 4K restoration of the film!
Frida After Dark: February 2020
Spring hasn’t sprung quite yet, but February ushers in the season of love! Whether you’re going steady, happily single, or a member of the Lonely Hearts Club, this unique Frida After Dark lineup will have you seeing red in the best way possible! With “sensual” roses, painted lips, and buckets of blood abound, we’re wasting no opportunity to jam-pack all twenty-nine days!
10 Must-See Movies About Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino’s critically acclaimed Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is hitting The Frida Cinema this month! A critical yet longing homage to vintage film and TV, it’s only appropriate that we take a look at other films that feature or deal with Tinseltown.
The Art of Stink: 7 Movies Made Better With Odorama
December at The Frida Cinema saw not one but two screenings of Polyester, John Waters’ delightfully trashy send-up of romantic melodramas.
The Devil & Father Christmas: Twisted Christmas Triple Feature
Keep an out for monsters though as they’ll be lurking in the pine trees and doing their best to give you a holiday fright. If you stay strong and brave the scares, you’ll get to see three of the most off-the-wall movies to ever grace the holiday season.
