Starring: Mckenna Grace, Terry Crews, Fortune Feimster, Jameela Jamil, Jennifer Hudson, Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, Bill Nye
After their ship gets caught in a mysterious storm, the PAW Patrol pups crash land on an uncharted tropical island filled with dinosaurs. They meet Rex, a pup who has been stranded on the island for years and has become an expert in all things dino-related. When the PAW Patrol’s archrival, Mayor Humdinger, begins recklessly mining in hopes of exploiting the island for its natural resources, he inadvertently causes a huge, dormant volcano to erupt. The PAW Patrol pups are thrown into a series of high-stakes, dino-sized rescues bigger than anything they’ve done before, as they must stop Humdinger before everything on the island goes extinct.
Johnny Knoxville and the gang return for one final fling at the big screen. Featuring all-new stunts and stupidity along with the greatest hits and biggest laughs from the past, Jackass: Best and Last is a joyously raucous celebration of all the mischievous camaraderie that you’ve come to love and expect from these idiots over the past 25 years. So, grab your dumb little buddies, raise your glasses, and come experience the cinematic event that promises to be the last time you’ll ever laugh this hard in a theatre.
Starring: John Early, Kate Berlant, Eric Rahill, Kristen Johnston, Claudia O’Doherty, Conner O’Malley, Vanessa Bayer, Chris Bauer
John Early’s critically acclaimed directorial debut starring himself as Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company. While her life seems picturesque — complete with an adoring husband (Eric Rahill), ride-or-die best friend (Kate Berlant) and a cupboard full of woman-owned ethically-sourced chili crisp to boot — mounting professional pressures threaten to reawaken a hidden secret from her troubled past. A pitch-perfect blend of satire, melodrama, daring tonal shifts and intimate performances, the film marks a bold new voice in contemporary cinema.
Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Robert Ri’chard
Sissy Fist Productions presents Nostalgia’s “Let’s Watch a Movie”—a campy collision of The Muppet Show, Elvira’s Movie Macabre, and Mystery Science Theater 3000! Hostess extraordinaire, Nostalgia, invites you to her screening of the 2005 cult classic remake of House of Wax. Expect killer drag performances, scream-inducing live commentary, drinking games, prizes to help you stop being poor, and audience antics that’ll have you saying “that’s hot”! It’s a screening to s’live for! Cast: Nostalgia, Nancy NoGood, Emi Grate, The Illustrious Pearl
With a cast mostly made up of pretty TV actors and, of course, Paris Hilton, House of Wax is more of an entry in the teen slasher genre than a remake of the 1953 Vincent Price vehicle of the same name. The tropes are there: broken down car, middle of nowhere, couples splintering off, weirdo locals – but the inventiveness comes from the wax museum set up, and the creepy villains, providing plenty of fun scares and memorable set pieces. The directorial debut of Jaume Collet-Serra, who would later make the very good Orphan and the best of the Liam Neeson actioners, House of Wax is an amusement park ride worth taking.
Starring: John Leguizamo, Nestor Serrano, Doug E. Doug, Mario Joyner
New Line Cinema began the 1990s as the studio known for urban, coming-of-age one-nighter tales, starting with 1990’s House Party and followed by the indie sleeper Hangin’ with the Homeboys, featuring rising talents and helmed by the late Joseph Vasquez.
Four Uptown friends—sweet supermarket clerk Johnny (Leguizamo), “Italian-passing” womanizer Fernando (Serrano), aspiring actor Tom (Joyner), and eager, wise activist Willie (Doug)—head downtown for a night out. When plans go awry, their evening forces them to question the bonds they took for granted.
Released during the decade’s indie boom, amid films increasingly fixated on urban plight and violence, Hangin’ with the Homeboys offered an antidote of sorts, recreating the rite-of-passage touchstones more often seen in films like Diner or American Graffiti. As Roger Ebert aptly put it: “Young urban males are often seen only in terms of the fears they inspire, instead of for who they really are. These are nice kids. Maybe that’s the message.”
Starring: Jack Waters, Sarah Schulman, Orran Farmer, Eamon Fahey, Mike Bailey-Gates
A radical revisitation. This updated version of Stephen Winter’s 2015 film unearths the ghosts of Jason and Shirley, restaging the volatile 12-hour shoot of the 1967 documentary Portrait of Jason—held at the Chelsea Hotel—which blurred the line between subject and storyteller.
Jason Holliday, a sharp-witted Black gay man, whose identity splits between personas–performer, hustler, muse, provocateur–is once again in the room with Shirley Clarke, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who insisted on framing his life. Now, with newly unearthed footage, the director returns 10 years later, not to resolve the contradictions, but to reopen them. What was once a document becomes a haunting, a conversation with what was left outside the frame. Time folds. Power shifts. And Jason, still impossible to contain, speaks back.
Before Jason and Shirley Revisited, we’ll be screening the short Birth of the Hive Queen, dir. Tempest Creation (8 min.)
Amina, a trans escort, gives birth from her anus.
Starring: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Joseph Ziegler, Amer Hlehel
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A vivacious Palestinian woman (Nisreen Faour) and her teenage son (Melkar Muallem) cope with culture clash and more as they try to build a new life in rural Illinois.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Christian Convery, Maisy Stella
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.
