Director: Jennie Livingston Run Time: 71 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1990

Starring: André Christian, David The Father Xtravaganza, Dorian Corey, Paris Duprée

Jennie Livingston captured the end of the "Golden Age" of New York City drag balls in this documentary filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s. She beautifully chronicled the ball culture of New York City and the vibrant Black and Latino LGBTQ+ community at its heart.

Wed, Jan 26 @ 7:00 pm: w

Director: Sofia Coppola Run Time: 123 min. Release Year: 2006

Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Kirsten Dunst, Rip Torn, Steve Coogan

Sofia Coppola’s vibrant film stars Kirsten Dunst as the doomed duchess Marie Antoinette and captures her 18th century life of lavish luxury as it teeters on the brink of destruction using breathtaking cinematography and a killer soundtrack.

Director: Sally Potter Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 1992

Starring: Billy Zane, Charlotte Valandrey, John Wood, Lothaire Bluteau, Tilda Swinton

Sally Potter directs an Elizabethan era Virginia Woolf adaptation starring Tilda Swinton? Yep. We’re all in on that. Don’t miss this amazing film about the extraordinary life of an androgynous nobleman who is transformed into a woman.

Director: Miranda July Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 2020

Starring: Debra Winger, Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Patricia Belcher, Richard Jenkins

Miranda July’s new offbeat family drama stars Evan Rachel Wood as the child of criminal parents whose world is turned upside down by a newly recruited partner in crime (Gina Rodriguez). A critically acclaimed Sundance choice, this film’s got heart and humor.

Director: Wes Anderson Run Time: 108 min. Release Year: 2021

Starring: Adrien Brody, Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton

Come see Wes Anderson’s latest and greatest film centered on a magazine staff in a fictional French city. Anderson applies his visually playful and punchy style to a series of vignettes that include his usual cast of favorites like Bill Murray and Owen Wilson, with some new faces including Timothée Chalamet and Elisabeth Moss.

Director: Wes Anderson Run Time: 119 min. Release Year: 2004

Starring: Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe

Bill Murray plays a wayward ship captain and documentary maker who rallies his crew, a pregnant journalist, and his fabulous estranged wife to exact revenge on a mythical shark while he grapples with the presence of a man who may or not be his son. 

Sat, Jan 29 @ 10:00 am: Donuts and Coffee

Director: Wes Anderson Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 1998

Starring: Bill Murray, Brian Cox, Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel

Wes Anderson’s breakout film is a coming of age story set at a private school in Texas, where an oddball teen is enraged to learn his too-old-for him teacher crush and mentoring venture capitalist friend are romantically involved.

Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 109 min. Release Year: 1982

Starring: Charles Hallahan, David Clennon, Keith David, Kurt Russell, Peter Maloney, Richard A. Dysart, Richard Masur, T.K. Carter, Wilford Brimley

John Carpenter’s sci-fi cult classic repulses and delights in a barf bag sci-fi mashup that only he could create. A team of researchers in Antarctica, handily armed with flame throwers and very cool sunglasses, are hunted by a shape-shifting alien.

Director: Tomas Alfredson Run Time: 115 min. Release Year: 2008 Language: Swedish

Starring: Henrik Dahl, Kåre Hedebrant, Karin Bergquist, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar

A genre masterpiece, this Swedish film by Tomas Alfredson relies on a muted color pallet and frighteningly good performances to create a moody ambiance that breaks the mold of vampire films. A lonely adolescent befriends a young vampire and together they wreak bloody havoc.

Run Time: 84 min.

Jim Cumming’s new horror comedy takes place in a small ski town where a suspected werewolf is leaving scores of bodies on the mountainside. A doofus of a cop (who obviously doesn’t believe in werewolves) must crack the case.

Director: Rob Reiner Run Time: 107 min. Release Year: 1990

Starring: Frances Sternhagen, James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farnsworth

Kathy Bates gives an unnerving performance as an unhinged literature fan who kidnaps her favorite author in Rob Reiner’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. James Caan plays the star novelist who she engages in a game of psychological chess as he tries to escape the snowy remote cabin where he’s being kept.

Run Time: 90 min.

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Director: Joel Coen Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 2021

Starring: Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel, Brendan Gleeson, Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Joel Coen’s fresh and brooding take on Macbeth. Shot in silvery black and white with an abundance of fog and gloom, Macbeth packs a punch of drama that’s only fitting for one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. (2021)

Director: Baz Luhrmann Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 1996

Starring: Brian Dennehy, Claire Danes, Jesse Bradford, Leonardo DiCaprio, Vondie Curtis-Hall

My only love sprung from my only hate.

Director: Akira Kurosawa Run Time: 108 min. Release Year: 1957 Language: Japanese

Starring: Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune

Akira Kurosawa retells Macbeth by replacing lords and kings with samurai and emperors in this rendition set in medieval Japan. Brutal, suspenseful, and visually stunning — this is by far one of the best Shakespeare adaptations ever made for the screen.

Director: John Madden Run Time: 123 min. Release Year: 1998

Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson

Love is the only inspiration.