The Parkway is pleased to present a new documentary from Twin Cities PBS, The Wild West Bank Sound, highlighting the artists, venues, and cultural movements that made the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood a defining force in Minnesota’s music history. A live Q&A with author and radio host Cyn Collins follows the screening.
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the critically acclaimed, award-winning rock movie musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch with an unforgettable evening featuring writer, director, and Golden Globe–nominated star John Cameron Mitchell!
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the critically acclaimed, award-winning rock movie musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch with an unforgettable evening featuring writer, director, and Golden Globe–nominated star John Cameron Mitchell!
After his father's demise, Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton) inherits the struggling family business, a shoe factory in Northampton, England. A fortuitous encounter with a cabaret singer (Chiwetel Ejiofor) inspires Charlie to save the factory from closure by producing erotic footwear. Because sometimes the best way to keep your head above water is to raise your heel height. Come early for drinks and a live burlesque performance, hosted by Queenie Von Curves!
Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to The Parkway this May with Transvestite Soup’s live shadow cast! Put your best RHPS themed costume on and come early for a cocktail with friends and lovers!
This July The Parkway is celebrating everyone’s favorite borough in the Big Apple, Brooklyn! We’re presenting 4 films that will have you doing New Yorker things like yelling at cars, talking about how great New York City is, and being disappointed in the Mets. Afraid of commitment? You can always buy tickets to the individual films as well!
A turf battle between New York City street gangs that rages from Coney Island to the Bronx. The Warriors are mistakenly fingered for the killing of a gang leader. Soon they have every gang in the city out to get revenge, and they must make their way across the city to their own turf on Coney Island, where an abundance of hot dogs await. Join us before the movie for a Warriors themed costume contest, hosted by Jeff Pariseau!
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.”
Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) knows only too well that he must put the Mob's interests before everything, even his family. But when the good times turn sour for Henry and his mob partners Jimmy (Robert De Niro) and Tommy (Joe Pesci), loyalties dissolve in the face of greater rewards. Faced with a terrible retribution, Hill can see only one way to get out alive — by following one golden rule: If Tommy asks whether he’s funny, don’t respond. Join us before the movie for drinks & trivia, hosted by Josh Carson!
North Star Nerdlesque Festival presents the Minnesota premiere screening of Tight & Nerdy, a serious look into the absurd world of the first and only burlesque troupe devoted to the music of “Weird Al” Yankovic. This special screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s directors and burlesque performances inspired by Weird Al!
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Featuring a star-studded ensemble cast including Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, John Turturro, the feature film debut of Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez, and Samuel Jackson (before the L). Join us before the movie for a live music set by Carnage the Executioner!
Tony Manero (John Travolta) doesn't have much going for him during the weekdays. He still lives at home and works as a paint store clerk in his Brooklyn neighborhood. But he lives for the weekends, when he and his friends go to the local club and dance the night away to Australian disco harmonies, sung in falsetto. FUN FACT: while performing chest compressions during CPR, “Staying Alive” is the tempo you should keep. Join us before the movie for a DJ set by Transmission’s DJ Shane Kramer!
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 21st anniversary screening including a live script reading and Q&, plus a bonus surprise or two that you won’t want to miss!
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played ‘mammy’ archetypes.” Along the way, she discovers that researching film history is a lot like dating — with more microfiche. Come early for drinks and a live burlesque performance, hosted by Queenie Von Curves!
Come celebrate pride month at The Parkway! Both nights will feature a live burlesque show before the film screenings, hosted by Queenie Von Curves! Afraid of commitment? You can always buy tickets to the individual films as well!
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. While trying to avoid making the same mistakes as his truculent father (Clarence Williams III), the Kid navigates the club scene, a rival musician (Morris Day), a rocky relationship with a captivating singer (Apollonia Kotero), and unhelpful advice from his stick puppet. Come early for drinks and trivia!
Join us Tuesday, June 2, at the Parkway Theater for the Mille Movie Club in "reel" life! Cocktails in the lobby from 6-7 pm followed by a screening of A Room with a View.
Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to The Parkway this May with Transvestite Soup’s live shadow cast! Put your best RHPS love themed costume on and come early for a cocktail with friends and lovers!
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) faces a deadly new threat when Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), a former MI6 agent presumed dead, resurfaces as a rogue mastermind with control of a powerful satellite weapon capable of crippling the global economy. As Bond races across continents to stop him, he must also contend with Trevelyan’s dangerous accomplice, Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), whose lethal methods are more deadly and unpredictable than Sean Bean’s chances of making it to the end credits.
In a globe-trotting assignment that has him skiing off the edges of cliffs and driving a car deep underwater, British super-spy James Bond (Roger Moore) unites with Russian agent Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) to defeat megalomaniac shipping magnate Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens), who is threatening to destroy New York City with nuclear weapons, with the help of henchman Jaws (Richard Kiel), a seven-foot giant armed with terrifying steel teeth and a suitcase full of royalties for Steven Spielberg.
A special screening of a film families, advocates, and providers across the country are talking about. Join NAMI Minnesota and NAMI Ramsey County for a powerful community screening of No One Cares About Crazy People.
Powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) has initiated Operation Grand Slam, a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond (Sean Connery), armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin, must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries and an abundance of chest hair.
It’s May so you know what that means? 007 himself! Three films highlighting the suave, debonair agent of the state; and the completely bat poop crazy billionaires obsessed with world domination! Afraid of commitment? You can always buy tickets to the individual films as well!
Join us Monday, May 5 at The Parkway for the Mille Movie Club in "reel" life! Cocktails in the lobby from 6-7 pm, followed by a screening of Dick (1999).
90-plus-year-old Captain Jack McClure, along with the Rocketboys, defy death by bringing back the very same hydrogen peroxide rocket go-kart he raced fifty years ago. Captain Jack and His Rocket Powered Go-Kart is a thrill ride that questions just how much life can fit in the eighth mile.
In this anime feature, 13-year-old Kiki (Kirsten Dunst) moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji (Phil Hartman), to spend a year alone, in accordance with her village's tradition for witches in training. After learning to control her broomstick, Kiki sets up a flying courier service and soon becomes a fixture in the community. But when the insecure young witch begins questioning herself and loses her magic abilities, she must overcome her self-doubt to get her powers back, all while battling Uber Eats for market share.
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 the late 1980s, after avenging the death of his wife and young son at the hands of a vicious gang leader, Max (Mel Gibson) drives the post-apocalyptic highways of the Australian outback, fending off attacks from nomadic tribes that prey on outsiders. Falling into an encampment led by the relatively peaceful Pappagallo, Max at first schemes to steal their oil, but soon becomes the group's reluctant defender against the hulking Lord Humungus (Kjell Nilsson) and his ruthless band of marauders, dressed for Bondage A Go Go night at Ground Zero.
Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to The Parkway this February with Transvestite Soup’s live shadow cast! Put your best RHPS love themed costume on and come early for a cocktail with friends and lovers!
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, where humans are changed into beasts and absolutely enormous babies.
Just in time for Tax Day: the 1924 silent film, He Who Gets Slapped. The great Lon Chaney is HE, a tortured clown whose signature act is receiving an endless series of slaps to the face. Lived scored with new work by Paris1919, featuring Carnage The Executioner.
With innocent victims caught in the crossfire, both cop John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) and violent criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) are sentenced to a state of frozen incarceration known as “CryoPrison,” in a dystopian Los Angeles in 1996. When Spartan is finally thawed 36 years later, Los Angeles is now a pacifist utopia called San Angeles. But with Phoenix again on the loose, and no one violent enough to compete, Spartan must be thawed to team up with future cop Lenina (Sandra Bullock) and apprehend the killer. We’ve still got six years for that bathroom shell thingy to be invented.
HUMP! Spring 2026 Is Coming (and Coming Hard)! It’s hot, it’s hilarious, it’s heartfelt, and it’s like nothing you’ll find online. Hosted by Emcee Kamaree Lee!
In the 14th century, the harmony that humans, animals, and gods have enjoyed begins to crumble. The protagonist, young Ashitaka (Billy Crudup) — infected by an animal attack, seeks a cure from the deer-like god, Shishigami. In his travels, he sees humans ravaging the earth, bringing down the wrath of wolf god Moro and his human companion San (Claire Danes). His attempts to broker peace between her and the humans brings only conflict. Meanwhile, he meets Jigo (checks notes…. Billy Bob Thornton?), an opportunistic monk who wears a vial of his wife’s blood around his neck and shills cell phone upgrades for T-Mobile.
Time-traveling duo Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc (Christopher Lloyd) return from saving Marty's future son from disaster, only to discover their own time transformed. In this nightmarish version of Hill Valley, Marty's father has been murdered and Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), Marty's nemesis, has profited. After uncovering the secret to Biff's success — a sports almanac from the future — Marty and the Doc travel to the year 2015 in order to repair the space-time continuum. Eleven years later and we’re still waiting for hoverboard, self-tying shoes, and jackets that dry themselves.
Join us Sunday, April 5 at The Parkway for the Mille Movie Club in "reel" life! Cocktails in the lobby from 6-7 pm, followed by a screening of Marc by Sofia..
Schoolgirl Satsuki (Dakota Fanning) and her younger sister, Mei (Elle Fanning), settle into an old country house with their father (Tim Daly) and wait for their mother to recover from an illness in an area hospital. As the sisters explore their new home, they encounter and befriend playful spirits in their house and the nearby forest, most notably their “neighbor,” a massive, cuddly creature known as Totoro (Frank Welker), armed with a Ring doorbell to “search for lost dogs.”
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.”
It’s the Parkway’s annual celebration of Studio Ghibli! Bring the whole family to experience 4 masterpieces of animation! Afraid of commitment? You can always buy tickets to the individual films as well!
In 2019, Deckard (Harrison Ford) is forced to continue his old job as Replicant Hunter. His assignment: eliminate four escaped Replicants from the colonies who have returned to Earth. Before starting the job, Deckard goes to the Tyrell Corporation and he meets Rachel (Sean Young), a Replicant he falls in love with. Apparently he’s not very good at his job.
Get your All Movie Pass for Wrong Future Predictions! Hey, they can’t all be bullseyes. That’s no reason not to celebrate the attempt! Come see 4 films that took a Nostradamus-sized swing and fouled it off. Afraid of commitment? You can always buy tickets to the individual films as well!
Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to The Parkway this February with Transvestite Soup’s live shadow cast! Put your best RHPS love themed costume on and come early for a cocktail with friends and lovers!
