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Enter the Kingdom

Who’s ready for a BRAND NEW film series..?

With the recent return of our David Lynch retrospective — “Let’s Do Lynch” — being such a smashing success, we’ve cooked up a new series that is sure to follow suit. Beginning in January of 2026, we will be hosting a new retrospective series, ENTER THE KINGDOM, featuring films adapted from the literary works of the one-and-only Stephen King!

Now in his late-70’s, the Man from Maine has been churning out critically-acclaimed novels and short stories for the past half-a-century — it’s estimated that he’s sold around 350 million books worldwide — and he’s created a body of work (mostly grounded in horror fiction) that is sure to stand unrivalled for the foreseeable future. What’s more, King’s gift at coming up with strange characters, bizarre plots, and unforgettable dialogue, lends itself to cinematic adaptation. So, since we’re a movie-house and not a bookstore, the best way we can honor King’s legacy is to show a bunch of films that take you into the weird worlds that he has created!

Here’s the line-up…fit for a King! :

CARRIE – Tuesday, January 20th

THE SHINING – Tuesday, January 27th

CREEPSHOW – Tuesday, February 3rd

THE DEAD ZONE – Tuesday, February 10th

CHRISTINE – Tuesday, February 17th

STAND BY ME – Tuesday, February 24th

PET SEMATARY – Tuesday, March 3rd

MISERY – Tuesday, March 17th

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION – Tuesday, March 24th

THE MIST – Tuesday, March 31st

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WICKED: FOR GOOD – New Showtime Added for Friday at 7:00pm

Due to popular demand, we’ve added a 7:00 p.m. screening of Wicked: For Good today, Friday, November 21st!

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CLJC & OIP Present: WRONGFUL CONVICTION DAY with Richard and Janette Horton

Join us in commemorating Wrongful Conviction Day with a special event presentation sponsored by the Center for Law Justice & Culture and The Ohio Innocence Project

Tuesday, October 8th at 7:00 p.m.

Admission is FREE and open to the public…Tickets are required for entry

We’re proud to partner with the CLJC and the OIP as they host an event featuring Richard and Janette Horton, joined by OHIO alumnus and Director of Policy and Engagement at the Ohio Innocence Project, Pierce Reed, Esq.

Richard Horton was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to 23 years in prison for a home invasion, robbery, and shooting in Columbus that he did not commit. After serving 16 in prison, Mr. Horton was granted a new trial thanks to emerging DNA analysis technology. The Ohio Innocence Projects believes this to be the first instance where such evidence has led to the reversal of a conviction.

Mr. Horton will discuss his experience with wrongful conviction and his work with OIP to exonerate him. His wife, Janette will discuss the impact these cases have on those close to the accused.

The event is co-sponsored by the Ohio Innocence Project, Ohio University’s OIP-u, and Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity.

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Mean Girls Mimosa Matinees

What’s better than a midafternoon matinee movie..? A midafternoon matinee movie with a mimosa!

mi-mo-sa (n) – a drink of champagne and orange juice

For the month of February, we’ll be featuring a string of fun films as matinee screenings – only $5! – where we encourage you to grab some friends, come see the film, and sip some mimosas (or whatever else whets your whistle)! These movies may seems “girl-centric”, but let’s be honest…they’re a blast for everyone 🙂

Here’s the line-up:

Saturday, February 4th – MEAN GIRLS

Saturday, February 8th – CLUELESS

Saturday, February 15th – THE CRAFT

Saturday, February 22nd – LEGALLY BLONDE

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Let’s Do Lynch:

After a 10-year hiatus, Let’s Do Lynch is back! Starting in January 2025, we’ll be devoting Tuesday nights to a career-spanning retrospective of David Lynch’s amazing films — 8 movies in all!

For the past six decades, David Lynch has approached filmmaking from an extremely unique, totally genuine, and incredibly artistic perspective. His work has consistently wrestled with deeply existential themes, oftentimes accompanied by dreamlike and terrifying imagery. One thing remains constant throughout his body of work: The reality that Lynch allows us to be privy to is much different than what we experience on a day-to-day basis.

Having recently been diagnosed with emphysema (Lynch has smoked Winston cigarettes for most of his life) and no longer permitted by doctors to direct in-person, it may be that David Lynch will soon retire altogether from the world of cinema. So, now’s the perfect time to join us in celebrating a true artist who might just be the greatest American filmmaker of all time!

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Sustainability Series: THE EDGE OF NATURE

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Gasland filmmaker Josh Fox spent the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic – a unique moment in human history that some scientists have referred to as “The Anthropause” – isolating himself in a one-room cabin in the woods of Pennsylvania while he suffered through the physical, mental, and neurological impacts of a bout with long covid. His hope was that, through developing a close connection with nature, he would be able to heal his body, his mind, and his soul. Over the course of nine months, Fox documented his life in isolation and the insights he developed about topics as wide-ranging as wildlife, genocide, the intergenerational trauma common to rural America, and, most importantly, himself.

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Science On Screen + Beat the Heat Family Film Series Present: OSMOSIS JONES with Dr Sarah Adkins

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Join us Saturday, July 18th at 3:00 p.m. for a special event that ties together Science on Screen®, the kick-off of our summer Beat the Heat Family Film Series, and Ohio Brew Week’s Last Call!

This event will include a pre-show presentation by Dr. Sarah Adkins

Tickets are donation-based and the proceeds will go to benefit local children’s organizations

About the event

This special screening of the award-winning animated film Osmosis Jones is a project of Science on Screen® + our Beat the Heat Family Film Series.

Admission is a donation of any amount, all welcome!

Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that pairs popular films with presentations by experts in science, technology, and medicine, helping audiences explore the real-world ideas behind what they see on screen.

Beat the Heat is our annual summer family film series, supporting local children’s organizations while providing affordable, accessible summer programming for families.

About the film

Comedy legend Bill Murray stars as Frank, a grungy Rhode Island zookeeper who’s lack of hygiene is partly tied to mourning the death of his wife. Inside Frank’s body, where the real action of the film takes place, Osmosis “Ozzy” Jones is a white blood cell (voiced by comedian Chris Rock) who serves as a police officer guarding against threats to Frank’s immune system. When Thrax, a lethal new virus (voiced by Laurence Fishburne), shows up on the biological scene, Osmosis Jones finds himself in a race against time to seek and destroy Thrax before his deadly plans can bring Frank down for the count.

About the speaker

Sarah Adkins, current Executive Director of Rising Suns Pharmacy, is a pharmacist and a native of Athens County, Ohio. Sarah attended Albany Elementary through the 8th grade. She moved with her family into the city of Athens and graduated from Athens High School in 1993. She graduated from the University of Toledo in 1998 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Pharmacy.

She worked for Meijer Pharmacy in Northwest Ohio for two years after graduation. She then moved to Columbus, Ohio and worked for Medco Health Solutions as a Customer Service Pharmacist, Managed Care Pharmacist, Supervisor of Physician Service Center and then Knowledge Manager of Medication Therapy Management. She attended The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy (OSU COP) and completed her Doctor of Pharmacy in June 2010. Sarah moved back to her hometown of Athens, Ohio in 2011. She completed a PGY 1 residency in a collaborative agreement of clinical and academic practice with OSU COP and Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OUHCOM).

After the residency, Dr. Adkins advanced her residency into a full-time shared position with OSU COP and OUHCOM where she has worked for the past eight years. She precepts fourth year Ohio State pharmacy students on rotations. She spends clinic time with the Ohio University Heritage Community Clinic and OhioHealth Family Practice Residency clinic. She teaches pharmacy sciences at OUHCOM and Ohio University College of Health Sciences and Professions (CHSP). She is passionate and dedicated to her communities in Appalachia, Southeast Ohio, and Athens.

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Beat the Heat: THE MUPPET MOVIE

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Join us Saturday, July 25th at 3:00 p.m. as our summer Beat the Heat Family Film Series continues with the ultimate, blast-from-the-past Muppet extravaganza!

Tickets are donation-based and the proceeds will go to benefit local children’s organizations

About the film

Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie the Bear, and all the world-beloved puppets of master puppeteer Jim Henson come together in the classic 1979 film that put these fun characters on the big screen for the first time ever.

The Muppet Movie blends together all the best elements of comedy, a sing-a-long musical, and an exciting road movie to tell the story of how humble swamp-dwelling Kermit the Frog gets discovered by a talent agent one day while playing his banjo and singing a special song. The agent prompts Kermit to hit the road and seek his fame in Hollywood. Along the way, the singing amphibian meets Fozzie and the other Muppets, and, as the gang grows in number, the adventure increases with hijinks, mayhem, and the kind of laughs that only the Muppets can deliver!

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Art House Theater Day Double-Feature: PUTNEY SWOPE + SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

Join us Thursday, July 30th at 7:00 p.m. as we celebrate Art House Theater Day with an exciting double-feature of anti-capitalist classics!

One Film $5 – Double-feature $8

Double-feature Schedule:

7:00 p.m. – PUTNEY SWOPE (84 min)

8:35 p.m. – Intermission (25 min…grab a drink and a popcorn!)

9:00 p.m. – SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (112 min)

For Art House Theater Day, we are pairing two generations of radical, anti-establishment filmmaking for a night of surreal corporate warfare!

Kick things of with Robert Downey Sr.’s 1969 underground masterpiece Putney Swope, where an accidental black CEO uses a hilarious dubbed voice to upend the advertising world. Then, fast-forward to Boots Riley’s 2018 sci-fi satirical directing debut Sorry to Bother You, following a telemarketer who uses his telephonic “white voice” to climb capitalism’s twisted ladder.

Come for the biting social commentary, stay for the absurdist comedy. The system is rigged — dub your way in!

About Putney Swope

In this classic 1969 satire written and directed by Robert Downey Sr, a black executive – Putney Swope – of a Madison Avenue advertising agency is accidentally made chairman of the board of directors when a boardroom vote goes awry. Seeing an opportunity to shake things up, Swope renames the agency “Truth & Soul Inc”, fires his white co-workers, and brings on-board a host of radical black activists to try and turn the advertising world on its head with subversive and shock-inducing ad campaigns. While the effort makes Truth & Soul highly profitable, Swope and his cohort end up drawing the ire of the President and are declared a threat to national security.

About Sorry to Bother You

In his directorial debut, self-proclaimed communist and filmmaker Boots Riley presents an alternate reality set in Oakland, California where Cassius Green, a telemarketer who is floundering in his job and struggling with the existential crisis of being black and selling to white people. When a long-time fellow employee advises him to try using his “white voice” instead, Green suddenly finds huge success selling abhorrent-though-lucrative products to Caucasian customers. Meanwhile, Green’s co-workers are organizing a union to try and improve their less-than-favorable working conditions. As Green watches his success begin to erode his old sense-of-self, he has a crisis of conscience when his boss tries to recruit him for a nefarious plan.

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Hispanic Film Series: AZTEC BATMAN: CLASH OF EMPIRES

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Join us Tuesday, September 22nd at 7:00 p.m. as we kick off our 2nd annual Hispanic Film Series with a one-of-a-kind superhero film!

Admission is FREE and open to the public – Tickets are required

About the film

This bold, animated re-imagining of the Batman legend, written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Juan Meza-León, is set during the days of the grand Aztec empire. Yohualli Coatl, a young Aztec boy, witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of Spanish conquistadors and flees to the city of Tenochtitlan. Once there, he gains entry into the temple of the bat god Tzinacan, and, using new and novel weaponry, trains himself to become the avenger of his father’s death.

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The Spanish Film Club series was made possible with the support of the OHIO School of International Studies and Languages (SISAL), Sigma Delta Pi (National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society), Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.