Feb 3-9: Babylon, Bill Nighy in LIVING, Nolan's Interstellar, an 80s cult classic & more Oscar nominees!

From director Damien Chazelle (La La Land), BABYLON is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva. Nominated for 3 Oscars!

Feb 3, 4, 5 & 7

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence in early Hollywood.

"You're in for one of the most outlandishly energetic, sinful and ambitious cinematic experiences of this year." - San Jose Mercury News

"Shimmering, mournful, and riotous, Babylon is one of the year's best movies." - AV Club

We told you it was good! See Paul Mescal's BEST ACTOR Oscar-Nominated performance in AFTERSUN!

Feb 6, 8, 10, 12

"An assured, aching, vibrant debut by Wells, AFTERSUN is a shattering remembrance of a father by his daughter." - RogerEbert.com

"I didn’t want AFTERSUN to end—and the desire to preserve and extend moments into infinity is what the movie is all about." - The Ringer

Bill Nighy and Kazuo Ishiguro have been nominated for Academy Awards for LIVING (Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay, respectively)

LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his drab life into something wonderful.

"An absolutely gorgeous, heartbreaking piece of work." - Rolling Stone

Nominated for 9 Academy Awards, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN is back!

Now playing. Ends Feb 9. Get tickets!

Christopher Nolan's INTERSTELLAR

Two shows only, Feb 9 & 12. See Nolan's space epic on the big screen!

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

1980s cult classic comes to the Playhouse for One Night Only!

Thurs. Feb 8th at 9:25. Get tickets!

A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.

"It's the film's ability to embrace its own zaniness that has cemented NIGHT OF THE COMET's legacy in modern horror as by far one of the most inventive cult classics to have been spawned during the 80s." - Daily Dead

"One of the most unique motion pictures from any age, and it's a wonder that more modern filmmakers haven't used it as a cinematic template." - Birth. Movies. Death

See it at the Playhouse!

THE WHALE plays Feb 10 - 17

Tickets on sale now!

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Living

"An absolutely gorgeous, heartbreaking piece of work. One of the best films of the year." - Rolling Stone

Nominated for 2 Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Bill Nighy) and Best Adapted Screen Play!

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Babylon

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Production Design, Original Score, and Costume Design

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The Banshees of Inisherin

14A

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including: Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role (Colin Farrell), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan), and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Kerry Condon)

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Aftersun

14A

"An assured, aching, vibrant debut by Wells, 'Aftersun' is a shattering remembrance of a father by his daughter." - Rogerebert.com

At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood.

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Night of the Comet

PG-13

A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.

After a rare comet sighting, teen sisters Regina (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Samantha (Kelli Maroney) find that they're among the only survivors of a zombie attack. The girls partner with another survivor, Hector (Robert Beltran), but as they try to avoid the zombies, they're sought by scientists who want to experiment on their bodies in the hope of finding an antidote.

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Interstellar

Christopher Nolan's space epic on the big screen!

Limited quantity of posters available at the snackbar for purchase at both screenings! Hand-drawn original artwork by Cloe Wagstaffe.

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The Whale

14A

A reclusive English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.

Nominated for 3 Academy Awards: Actor in a Leading Role (Brendan Fraser), Actress in a Supporting Role (Hong Chau), and Makeup and Hairstyling!

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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.

“Miloš Forman’s 1975 version of Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, stars Jack Nicholson is Mac McMurphy, the subversive wildman and incorrigible troublemaker, sent down for statutory rape, whose unstable behaviour gets him a transfer to what he clearly thinks will be the cushy option of the mental institution.

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Vampire's Kiss

After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.

The life of white-collar New Yorker Peter (Nicolas Cage) seems to revolve solely around making as much money and sleeping with as many women as possible. After a typical night of scouring trendy bars for some action, Peter manages to take home the sexy Rachel (Jennifer Beals), who bites him on the neck while they're in bed. The next day, Peter is certain he is now a vampire.

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Casablanca

Celebrate the holidays with this classic Princess screening!

Having won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 1944 Academy Awards, it is easy to see how this film, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman is consistently considered a classic. Acting out a tortured relationship of love and virture, this pair is iconic in these roles. This 1942 tale of love and war has never ceased to enthrall.

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Moonstruck

14A

Valentine's Screening! Led by energetic performances from Nicolas Cage and Cher, Moonstruck is an exuberantly funny tribute to love and one of the decade's most appealing comedies.

No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta (Cher) accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny (Danny Aiello), than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny (Nicolas Cage). She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country.

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The Room: 20th Anniversary!

14A

"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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VOC Silent Film Harmonic: The Passion of Joan of Arc

Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy are brought to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent achievements of the silent era.

This screening has been moved from our previous date of February 23rd, 2023 due to poor weather conditions.

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Saint Omer

Winner of multiple major awards, including the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at Venice, and named Best International Feature by the Toronto Critics Association

"First, the real-life facts of the case, more shocking than you’ll find in most fiction: In November 2013, a mother took a train from Paris to the northern French coast, along with her 15-month old daughter. She checked into a hotel, walked down to the water at night, fed the hungry child, and left her to drown at high tide.

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Close

PG - 13

Close is a tender and powerfully acted look at childhood innocence lost.

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.

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Emily

14A

With a bracingly irreverent approach to its story and Emma Mackey bringing Brontë vibrantly to life, Emily is a biopic that manages to feel true while taking entertaining creative liberties.

EMILY imagines Emily Brontë’s own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, "Wuthering Heights." Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time.

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2023 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: ANIMATION

See The Animated Short Films Nominated for The 2023 Oscars!

For the 18th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Feb. 17th. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)!

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