Dec 17-23: Nightmare Alley Opens! 36th Annual Foodbank Benefit; Muppet Christmas Carol; The Room & more!

Guillermo del Toro's new film, NIGHTMARE ALLEY, starts Dec 16 with a very special sneak preview! Exclusive holiday engagement. More screenings continue on the 17th, through next week!

In del Toro's new psychological thriller, a carnival con man meets a psychiatrist who's even more dangerous than he is.

"Everything you love about Guillermo del Toro is present, yet the filmmaker feels so wholly new here. Nightmare Alley feels like a true delightfully twisted noir." - Flickering Myth

Shot in Hamilton and around the GTA, del Toro's new film demands to be seen on the big screen.

Dec 18 & 19. FREE screening with a non-perishable food donation to The Food Bank of Waterloo Region! Sign up today!

Tickets must be reserved in advance ONLINE. COME EARLY! Doors open 30 minutes before showtime.

Starts Dec 17 at the Original. Directed and co-written by Paul Verhoeven (BASIC INSTINCT), BENEDETTA is a follow-up to 2016’s ELLE and marks another late-career triumph for the stylish provocateur. A serious scholar of Christ — he co-authored a book on his life — Verhoeven nevertheless brings an irreverence and wit to his study of Catholicism and the patriarchy.

"Paul Verhoeven takes us to a nunnery where faith, eroticism and the Black Death make for an unholy good time." - New York Times

Dec 18th. THE ROOM returns to the Princess after too long! Get tickets now to see the 'Citizen Kane' of bad movies on the big screen!

Bring spoons, bring your friends! "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"

December 19 & 22! Celebrate the holiday season with THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, perfect for the whole family!

"This is the Muppets' finest film. Its mashup of slapstick, songs and literary adaptation is suitably anarchic, but crucially it gets Dickens right." - Total Film

Starts Dec 18th at the Twin, Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic, DUNE, arrives fresh off its Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture.

"Denis Villeneuve's new big-screen adaptation underlines why generations have been fascinated by the story." - Vox

Dec 17. One show only! A must-see Canadian horror / Christmas classic on the big screen one-night-only, scroll down to get tickets to this 70s horror film!

"A quintessentially Canadian masterpiece." - National Post

Need a horror fix this weekend, while keeping the holiday spirit? This is it!

COMING SOON

Opens Dec 24 at the Twin! One of the best-reviewed films of the year, Paul Thomas Anderson's (Phantom Thread, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, The Master) highly-anticipated coming-of-age film, LICORICE PIZZA opens at the Twin with advance tickets on sale now! Screens Christmas Day, too!

Just nominated for Best Picture at the Golden Globes!

"Licorice Pizza delivers a piping-hot, jumbo slice-of-life look at how it felt to grow up on the fringes of the film industry circa 1973, as seen through the eyes of an ambitious former child actor plotting how to follow up his early screen career." - Variety

Christmas shop for the movie lover in your life! Shop online or at the Twin whenever we're open for screenings!

This is the perfect way to spoil the movie lover in your life! From holiday gift packs, movie tickets, memberships, shirts, socks, stickers, enamel pins and more!

There's something for everyone this holiday season at the Princess!

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Thanks for supporting Kitchener-Waterloo's only locally-owned cinema. 36 years of independent film! See you at the movies!

FILMS SHOWING Friday December 17 to Thursday December 23

Nightmare Alley

In the new psychological thriller directed by Guillermo del Toro, a carnival con man meets a psychiatrist who's even more dangerous than he is.

When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society.

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It's a Wonderful Life - 36th Annual Benefit for Foodbank of Waterloo Region

Sun Dec 19, 1:30: Original Princess. FREE admission with donation of a non-perishable food item to the Foodbank of Waterloo Region. Tickets must be reserved in advance ONLINE. We expect this show to be well-attended, so please COME EARLY! Doors open 30 minutes before showtime.

After George Bailey (James Stewart) wishes he had never been born, an angel (Henry Travers) is sent to earth to make George's wish come true. George starts to realize how many lives he has changed and impacted, and how they would be different if he was never there.

Benedetta

"'Benedetta' is a gloriously excessive entry from the cinema's master of excess, Paul Verhoeven, and it's an enjoyable, provocative experience. 4/4" - San Francisco Chronicle

BENEDETTA unearths the story of Benedetta Carlini, a 17th-century nun in Tuscany who suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. Wildly entertaining, and featuring standout performances from Virginie Efira as the title character and Charlotte Rampling as the stoic, conflicted Mother Abbess.

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The Room: 20th Anniversary!

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"To make a movie so bad it's good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity. Fortuitously Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities, combined with a total lack of acting talent." - The Guardian

Celebrate 20 years of The Room!

“Tommy Wiseau’s The Room may be the first true successor to the Rocky Horror throne. Wiseau's Johnny is the noblest of boyfriends and most capable of lovers. But none of that satisfies his fiancée Lisa, a wicked Jezebel whose boredom with Johnny manifests in a brazen affair with his best friend.

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Black Christmas

"It is the uncertainty that is unveiled in the final moments before the credits roll that makes Black Christmas a quintessentially Canadian masterpiece." - National Post

From the director of 'A Christmas Story,' but don't let that fool you!

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The Muppet Christmas Carol

"This is the Muppets' finest film. Its mashup of slapstick, songs and literary adaptation is suitably anarchic, but crucially it gets Dickens right." - Total Film

Presented by Uptown Waterloo's BIA!

First 20 attendees receive a FREE popcorn!

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Dune

"This visually sumptuous space opera is sure to please new audiences and Dune fans alike." - Chicago Reader

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their own fear will survive.

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Belfast

Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.

Nominated for 7 Oscars! Including: Best Picture, Best Director, and Original Screenplay

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The French Dispatch

"This is Anderson at his most crowd-pleasing." - Times

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch" magazine.

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Licorice Pizza

"Paul Thomas Anderson's sunniest movie yet, this San Fernando Valley palimpsest is so buoyant and bubbly, it practically floats off the screen." - Time Out

Nominated for 3 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay)

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

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Coming Soon!

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Joel Coen’s bold and fierce adaptation; a tale of murder, madness, ambition, and wrathful cunning.

Nominated for 3 Oscars (Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design)

Power-hungry Macbeth sets his sights on the Scottish throne after receiving a prophecy from three witches.

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Red Rocket

Mikey Saber is a washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown, not that anyone really wants him back.

The audacious new film from writer-director Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine), starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, RED ROCKET is a darkly funny and humane portrait of a uniquely American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him.

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