Join us at the Parkway Theater for the Mille Movie Club in "reel" life! Cocktails in the lobby from 6-7 followed by a screening of the 1940 Hitchcock film REBECCA.
When a beautiful first-grade teacher (Olivia Williams) arrives at a prep school, she attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max (Jason Schwartzman), who quickly falls in love with her. Symmetrical camera shots! Pastel colors! Title cards in Futura font! Come early for cocktails and music by the Ryan Picone Quartet.
Celebrate 50 years of Rocky Horror Picture Show with Transvestite Soup’s live shadow cast on September 27 at The Parkway Theater!
Six films to keep you up at night! From deep psychological fear to bloody stabby time - there’s something for every horror fan! Afraid of commitment? You can buy tickets to individual films!
After impulsively stealing $40,000 from her boss, Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) flees to the off-season Bates Motel, where she meets the twitchy, taxidermy-loving proprietor Norman (Anthony Perkins) and his very vocal mother. Featuring cinema’s most infamous shower scene and the reason every Airbnb review now includes “great water pressure, zero knife attacks.”
Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out. Hilarity ensues!
It's the short film competition where YOU and other audience members decide what's worthy of the silver screen by yelling "GONG" or "LET IT PLAY.”
Movies just scary enough to make it fun! Get the kiddos used to existential dread at an early age. Afraid of commitment? Buy tickets to the individual films!
After Barbara and Adam Maitland die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house. When the unbearable Deetzes and teen daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) buy the home, the Maitlands attempt to scare them away without success. Their only hope is to say the word “Beetlejuice” three times, a ritual that unleashes an unsolicited sequel.
What You Can’t Keep is a tender, poetic, and humorous exploration of modern love, told in three lyrical acts. Presented by Trademark Theater.
American diplomat Robert (Gregory Peck) and his wife Katherine (Lee Remick) adopt Damien (Harvey Stephens). After Damien's first nanny hangs herself, Father Brennan (Patrick Troughton) warns Robert that Damien will kill again. As more people around Damien die, Robert investigates Damien's background and realizes his adopted son may be the Antichrist. Apologies to anyone named Damien in the 70’s. Y’all had a rough go of it.
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy star as three accidentally conjured-up 17th Century witches that set out to cast a spell on the town of Salem to reclaim their youth. But first they must outwit three pesky kids determined to foil their scheme, and use their dark magic to overcome a 38% Rotten Tomatoes score.
A masked killer known as Ghostface terrorizes the small town of Woodsboro, targeting teenager Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and her friends in a bloody game that gleefully mocks horror-movie clichés. As the bodies start dropping, everyone becomes a suspect—and Gen Z viewers wonder why there’s no cell phones.
Pressure Drop is the latest chapter in a 30-year journey — forged from a dream, fueled with cash from commercial fishing in Alaska, and driven by an obsession with life on the edge.
Several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a disfigured midnight mangler who preys on the teenagers in their dreams -- which, in turn, kills them in reality. After investigating the phenomenon, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) begins to suspect that a dark secret kept by her and her friends' parents may be the key to unraveling the mystery, but can Nancy and her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp…yes, that Johnny Depp) solve the puzzle before it's too late? Free melatonin gummy with every ticket purchase!
The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry. For the last time, NO TIM BURTON DID NOT DIRECT THIS.
A rare screening of The Phantom Carriage (Swedish: Körkarlen, literally "The Wagoner"), a 1921 Swedish silent film directed by and starring Victor Sjöström, a classic of not just the silent film era but of film in general and is often found on any number of greatest films lists. The next installment of this unique film series pairing iconic silent films with original scores by celebrated composer Chris Strouth and performed by the musical collective, Paris 1919 featuring Terrell X’avion aka Carnage The Executioner. Co-presented by American Swedish Institute and Sound Unseen.
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again; while Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) hunts for Michael in the hope of ending his grisly murder spree. Loomis is ultimately unsuccessful, as evidenced by the twelve-and-counting sequels, reboots and remakes that followed.
Dan Savage’s 2025 HUMP! Film Festival Fall Lineup features 22 brand-new shorts that are wilder, funnier, and hotter than ever. See why the sexiest thing you can be is unapologetically yourself!
With the help of the Ramones, a group of rock-music-loving students take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration. The Breakfast Club meets Footloose. Come early for themed cocktails and music by The Silent Treatment!
The Twin Cities premiere of critically-acclaimed indie film, Unholy Communion, starring Adam Bartley (Longmire), Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), Laura Robards, and Irena Flury. Followed by a Q&A with the director and numerous cast and crew will be in attendance!
It's the short film competition where YOU and other audience members decide what's worthy of the silver screen by yelling "GONG" or "LET IT PLAY.”
When Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) and her family move to the suburbs of Illinois, she gets a quick primer on the cruel, tacit laws of popularity that divide her fellow high school students into tightly knit cliques. Come early for music from ELOUR, along with themed cocktails!
Summer is over and it’s back to the grindstone, kids! New backpacks. New Trapper Keepers. Old classic films plus trivia with local scenesters and cocktails! Grab an all-movie pass and get free popcorn with each show! Afraid of commitment? Tickets for individual films are also offered.
Presented by Transvestite Soup. Enjoy The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) with a live shadow cast, creating a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience!
In this final attempt by the ‘90s to sneak Shakespeare into teenagers, abrasive teen Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) doesn't attract many boys. Unfortunately for her younger sister, Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), house rules say that she can't date until Kat has a boyfriend. So strings are pulled to set the dour damsel up for romance. Come early for a live set by Leslie Vincent!
Hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell), gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and underneath, San Francisco's Chinatown. An ancient Chinese prince and Chinatown crime lord has kidnapped a beautiful green-eyed woman (Suzee Pai), who is the fiancee to Jack's best friend (Dennis Dun). With the help of his considerable mullet, Jack must help his friend rescue the girl before the evil Lo Pan (James Hong) uses her to break the ancient curse that keeps him a fleshless and immortal spirit. It’s no Captain Ron…
Greg Sestero — star of the cult film, The Room, and New York Times best-selling author of the Oscar-nominated film, The Disaster Artist — comes to The Parkway for a special 20th anniversary screening including a live script reading and Q&, plus a bonus surprise or two that you won’t want to miss!
With Earth about to be destroyed by a huge ball of fire (not an asteroid), an old monk, Cornelius (Ian Holm), seeks to avert armageddon with the help of Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis), a taxi driver (not an oil driller) — and former secret agent, and a woman named Leeloo (Milla Jovovich), not Ben Affleck. Come early for cocktails and trivia, hosted by Queenie Von Curves!
It's the short film competition where YOU and other audience members decide what's worthy of the silver screen by yelling "GONG" or "LET IT PLAY.”
Just released from a mental hospital, Anthony (Luke Wilson) finds his wacky friend Dignan (Owen C. Wilson), who is determined to begin an outrageous crime spree. After recruiting their neighbor Bob (Robert Musgrave), the team embarks on a road trip in search of Dignan's previous boss Mr. Henry (James Caan), in this the first and least Wes Anderson-y film directed by Wes Anderson.
You saw them before they were cool. And now you can introduce your friends to them all over again and vicariously experience your favorites through them! Afraid of commitment? Buy tickets to the individual films instead, but you won’t get free popcorn.
Presented by Transvestite Soup. Enjoy The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) with a live shadow cast, creating a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience!
Two stoners (Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong) accidentally invent the world’s first marijuana-powered van and unknowingly drive it straight across the U.S./Mexico border — smuggling a literal ton of weed. Along the way, they form a band, get deported, eat a suspicious amount of snack food, and forget what they were doing approximately every seven minutes.
A journalist (Johnny Depp) and his lawyer (Benicio del Toro) road trip to Las Vegas, armed with a typewriter, a red convertible, and enough drugs to tranquilize a small country. What begins as coverage of a desert motorcycle race spirals into a kaleidoscopic fever dream involving lizard people, a suitcase full of bad decisions, and the slow, screaming death of the American Dream. It’s Hunter S. Thompson by way of Looney Tunes — if Bugs Bunny had a mescaline problem.
Mistaking Jeffrey `The Dude' Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) for a wealthy philanthropist with the same name, a pair of thugs urinate on his precious rug. In exchange for a new rug, The Dude is tasked with acting as bagman for his elder namesake's kidnapped wife — aided and hindered by his Vietnam vet bowling partner (John Goodman). That rug really tied the room together. Come early for the Big Lebowski themed costume contest hosted by Josh Carson!
It's the short film competition where YOU and other audience members decide what's worthy of the silver screen by yelling "GONG" or "LET IT PLAY.”
In rural Oklahoma, a teen gang called the Greasers are perpetually at odds with a rival group named the Socials. When Greasers Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio) get into a brawl that ends in the death of a Social member, the boys are forced to go into hiding a part with the rest of their gang (played by a cast of nobodies who’ll never amount to anything).
They’re no good and they don’t care! July is the month to tell authorities to take a walk! Come to the Parkway to see some na’er do wells mix it up with The Man. Afraid of commitment? You can always buy tickets to the individual films as well!
Presented by Transvestite Soup. Enjoy The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) with a live shadow cast, creating a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience!
When drag queen Anthony (Hugo Weaving) agrees to take his act on the road, he invites fellow cross-dresser Adam (Guy Pearce) and transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to come along. In their colorful bus, named Priscilla, the three performers travel across the Australian desert performing for enthusiastic crowds and homophobic locals.
In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles," an engaged couple shakily introduce their future in-laws — a gay Miami drag club owner pretends to be straight and attempts to hide his relationship with his life partner as to please the Republican in-laws.
Megan (Natasha Lyonne) considers herself a typical American girl. She excels in school and cheerleading, and she has a handsome football-playing boyfriend. She's stunned when her parents decide she's gay and send her to True Directions, a boot camp meant to alter her sexual orientation.
Come celebrate Pride month with 3 films curated by Queenie Von Curves! Show up early to the movies for burlesque/drag performances with Queenie and some of her friends!
It's the short film competition where YOU and other audience members decide what's worthy of the silver screen by yelling "GONG" or "LET IT PLAY.”
A victim of his own anger, the Kid (Prince) is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band, the Revolution, escaping a tumultuous home life through music.
30 years after the defeat of the Empire, Rey (Daisy Ridley), a scavenger from the planet Jakku, finds a BB-8 droid that knows the whereabouts of the long lost Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill).
A rare screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) — the next installment of this unique film series pairing iconic silent films with original scores by celebrated composer Chris Strouth and performed by the musical collective, Paris 1919. Co-presented by Sound Unseen.
