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Upcoming FilMS - HOLIDAY 25
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
FRI NOV 28 - 7PM Showtime
Doors and Varsity Bar & Concessions at 6
Tickets: In advance at Eventbrite (see link) or at the door night of show.
Adults: $8
Students $6 with ID
Junior Varsity: $3 for patrons 10 and under
(no unaccompanied minors)
Our final session of Animation Month is the iconic masterpiece Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? creates a world where animated “toons” and humans can co-exist -- sometimes in harmony, other times in chaos. When Roger Rabbit is framed for murdering his boss, detective Eddie Valiant steps in to try to clear Roger’s name. Eddie must navigate the streets of Toontown, where gravity and logic are optional. What starts as a simple investigation spirals into an uncovering of a sinister plan that could destroy Toontown for good.
In a monumental achievement of its time, filmmakers used innovative camera work and frame-by-frame animation techniques to make the animated characters interact convincingly with real-life actors, sets, and props.
Rated PG.
Step Brothers
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
FRI DEC 5 - 7PM Showtime
Doors and Varsity Bar & Concessions at 6
Tickets: In advance at Eventbrite (see link) or at the door night of show.
Adults: $8
Students $6 with ID
Junior Varsity: $3 for patrons 10 and under
(no unaccompanied minors)
Step Brothers
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are comedy gold as Brennan and Dale in Step Brothers, a hilarious story about what happens when two single parents fall in love and their overgrown, live-at-home sons are suddenly forced to share a roof. When they all move in together, chaos erupts as Brennan and Dale awkwardly adjust to life as stepbrothers. What begins as brothers who hate each other, they bond as they face life’s absurd challenges side by side — from playground bullies and disastrous job interviews to a self-absorbed brother and a hilariously failed rap video. After the video ends in a boat catastrophe, the family falls apart - but it all comes full circle at the iconic Catalina Wine Mixer, where they all come together again in the most ridiculous but heart-warming way possible.
Rated R.
Carol
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Gremlins
FRI DEC 12 - 7PM Showtime
Doors and Varsity Bar & Concessions at 6
Tickets: In advance at Eventbrite (see link) or at the door night of show.
Adults: $8
Students $6 with ID
Junior Varsity: $3 for patrons 10 and under
(no unaccompanied minors)
Carol:
Starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara and set in 1950s New York City, Carol is Todd Haynes’s masterpiece that tells the story of two women who meet on opposite sides of the service counter during the flurry of Christmas shopping, where the first spark of their love occurs. A spark that can’t be ignored, but one that causes a massive ripple throughout both their lives.
Rated R.
Gremlins
The Holdovers
Gremlins
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FRI DEC 19 - 7PM Showtime
Doors and Varsity Bar & Concessions at 6
Tickets: In advance at Eventbrite (see link) or at the door night of show.
Adults: $8
Students $6 with ID
Junior Varsity: $3 for patrons 10 and under
(no unaccompanied minors)
Gremlins:
Joe Dante’s 1984 film Gremlins follows Billy Peltzer, a young man who receives an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, then inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
The Steven Spielberg-produced phenomenon was a smash hit upon its release. It notoriously necessitated the advent of the PG-13 rating (along with the other 1984 Amblin hit, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom), being deemed too scary for small kids but not quite for adults either. Gremlins is an anti-Christmas film of sorts, poking fun at the ironic juxtaposition between a time known for its jolliness and warmth, having been freshly co-opted by capitalistic mania during Ronald Reagan’s era of American excess. But above all, Gremlins is a wickedly fun exercise in Looneymania, brimming with unbelievable puppet work and practical effects, directed to perfection by genre/schlock maestro Joe Dante. It’s equal parts cute and disgusting, which is exactly why it remains a holiday classic to this day.
Rated PG.
The Holdovers
The Holdovers
The Holdovers
SAT DEC 20 - 7PM Showtime
Doors and Varsity Bar & Concessions at 6
Tickets: In advance at Eventbrite (see link) or at the door night of show.
Adults: $8
Students $6 with ID
Junior Varsity: $3 for patrons 10 and under
(no unaccompanied minors)
The Holdovers:
Alexander Payne’s (Director of Nebraska, Election, and Sideways) 2023 film The Holdovers, which is set in an Englishwhomthat boarding school who remains on campus during Christmas break to supervise held o is set in in 1970 and follows a curmudgeonly history teacher (played by Paul Giamatti) at a Newver students, and ends up forming an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker.
The Holdovers has almost immediately become a contemporary Christmas classic. The film received 5 Academy Award nominations and won Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Da'Vine Joy Randolph’s performance in the film. The film follows an unlikely group of loners and outsiders, all of whom find themselves in a state of melancholy that the season often entails, but find comfort and companionship amongst each other despite their vastly different backgrounds. The Holdovers is nothing if not cozy, evoking the texture and sincerity of a throwback 70s tear-jerker that you might have caught on TV. While it may not have the grandeur of something like Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, it certainly contains the same kind of humanity that we often need to be reminded of this time of year.
Rated R.
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