Movies
A conversation about Steve Grove’s debut memoir, How I Found Myself in the Midwest: A Memoir of Reinvention, followed by a book signing. Come when doors open to enjoy live music by local indie rockers AirLands!
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.
Presented by Transvestite Soup. Enjoy The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) with a live shadow cast, creating a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience!
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!
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).
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.”
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.
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.
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 7 minutes.
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!