FILMS

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7 p.m. Thursday, March 21
$7 or $5 for students with ID
Doors and Varsity Bar at 6:30

It’s the Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully hunt down a killer who for years has terrorized a community in the shadow of a general disregard for women rooted in a misogynistic past. (2014) Rated R (extreme violence, murder, rape, language)  (Spain)

Advance tickets are not available at the venue before doors open on the night of the show.

7 p.m. Friday, March 22
$7 / $5 for students with ID
Doors and Varsity Bar at 6:30

Vulgar, crude and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens and Madeline Kahn. 

Director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of ‘70s values and attitudes. Some of this film's sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics. (Rated R for adult situations, language; 1974) 

Tickets are not available in advance at the venue before doors open the night of show.

7 p.m. Thursday, March 28
$7 or $5 for students with ID
Doors and Varsity Bar at 6:30

An account of a Midwestern filmmaker's effort to make an independent picture. Mark Borchardt is passionate about cinema, and his dream project is a film called "Northwestern.” But he is serious debt, and he decides that if he finishes his horror short "Coven," he will be able to finance his masterwork with the money he'll raise from video sales. His attempts to follow this plan involve his 82-year old uncle, his girlfriend and a series of dreadful jobs, but Mark will never give up. (1999) Rated R (language)

Advance tickets are not available at the venue before doors open on the night of the show.

7 p.m. Friday, March 29
$7 / $5 for students with ID
Doors and Varsity Bar at 6:30

The 1988 American comedy was written and produced by John Hughes. It stars Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, and Annette Benning in her feature film debut. Nostalgic about the good old days in the honeymoon cabin, the patriarch Chet and the Ripley family set off to the idyllic woods of Wisconsin for the summer vacation. However, their plans for a peaceful family bonding in the heart of the untamed nature will be thwarted, when the high-rolling brother-in-law Roman and the snotty Craig family decide to crash the party. Eventually, as the two families try to have a good time together, a seemingly endless series of misfortunes and mini-disasters with thirsty leeches, cunning racoons and a mythical wild bear threaten to ruin the vacation. What will it take to salvage the weekend? (Rated PG for adult situations, language;1988)

Advance tickets are not available at the venue until doors open on the night of show.

7 p.m. Thursday, April 4
$7 or $5 for students with ID
Doors and Varsity Bar at 6:30

Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut is at once a love letter to the life and career of actor Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on morality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection. The film follows the 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having out-lived and out-smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. With David Lynch and Ron Livingston. (2017) Not Rated

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7 p.m. Friday, April 5
$7 / $5 for students with ID
Doors and Varsity Bar at 6:30

William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is he writing for Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of "The Rose," a theater whose doors are about to be closed by sadistic creditors, and he's got a nasty case of writer's block. The Rose's solvency depends on Shakespeare's new comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter." The problem is that not a word of it is written. Meanwhile, the lovely Lady Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) is an ardent theatergoer, scandalous for a woman of her breeding in the 16th century, who admires Shakespeare's plays and the playwright. She's about to be sold as property into a loveless marriage by her mercenary father and shipped off to a Virginia tobacco plantation – but not before dressing up as a young man and winning the part of Romeo in the embryonic play. Shakespeare soon discovers the deception and goes along with it, using the blossoming love affair to ignite his muse. As William and Viola's romance grows in intensity and spirals towards its inevitable culmination, so, too, does the farcical comedy about Romeo and pirates transform into the timeless tragedy that is “Romeo and Juliet.” (Rated R for sexuality; 1998)

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