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Horror In Color – Part III: SINNERS

Viewing: October 30,2026

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Join us Friday, October 30th at 7:00 p.m. for this year’s Horror In Color feature as we offer up a special screening of Ryan Coogler’s magnificent film Sinners!

FREE Admission – Tickets are required

This event will include a special cocktail and a pre-show trivia contest hosted by Dr. Gordon Briggs and Brandon “DJ B-Funk” Thompson with a prize for the winner!

Costumes are encouraged…let’s get the Halloween vibes in full swing! 

About the film

Come get a double-dose of Hollywood superstar Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station, Black Panther, Creed) as he stars as twin brothers “Smoke” and “Stack” in an action-packed, genre-bending horror film from director Ryan Coogler!

Trying to put some distance between themselves and their troubled pasts, the twin brothers return from Chicago back to the rural Mississippi town where they were born to make a new start. Using money stolen from Windy City crime bosses, they opt to open a juke joint as a venue for the burgeoning blues music scene. However, the duo soon discovers that there’s an evil wind blowing through the streets of their hometown…an evil with fangs, a thirst for blood, and ties to the Klan!

 

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Running Time: 138 MIN138 MIN
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BABES: Last Day Thursday, June 13th

Watch Trailer Director: Pamela Adlon
Cast: Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau

Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau) have been BFF’s since childhood; however, they have very different approaches to Life — Dawn is a responsible, married mother of two; Eden, on the other hand, lives life on more carefree terms. After a one-night stand, Eden finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and, deciding to follow through with having the baby, turns to Dawn for help and advice. As the two friends wrestle with the complexities of motherhood, their friendship gets put to the test (along with lots of laugh-inducing fun from two top-notch comedians!) and each comes away a little wiser in the end.

Rounding out the cast of this latest Glazer project is Oliver Platt, Hasan Minhaj, and Sandra Bernhard. Directed by Pamela Adlon (the voice actress for “Bobby” from the TV show King of the HillI), Babes debuted at the SXSW in March 2024 and is sure to be another feather in the cap for the zany star and co-creator of  Broad City.

 

 

 

 

 

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Running Time: 109 MIN109 MIN
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TUESDAY: Last Day Thursday, June 20th

Watch Trailer Director: Daina O. Pusić
Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew, Leah Harvey, Arinzé Kene

From A24 Studios comes a powerful story about life, death, and love.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, Veep) takes a step outside of her usual brilliantly funny persona to star as Zora, a single mother who lives with her terminally ill daughter “Tuesday”, played by the award-winning Irish actor Lola Petticrew. Things take a fantastical turn when, one day, a strange bird – a talking, size-changing parrot – arrives, setting mother and daughter on an emotional rollercoaster ride as they confront the meaning of existence and learn that the true essence of Love is knowing when and how to let go.

Tuesday is the directorial debut of filmmaker Daina O. Pusić and features mesmerizing cinematography by Alexis Zabé (The Florida Project). Dreyfus’s profoundly moving performance has been hailed by critics for its honesty, depth, and poignancy. Pusić’s affecting screenplay builds a bridge between fantasy and something very real at the heart of us all.

 

 

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It’s clear that both Pusić and the actors...care about the characters. And because they do, the story resonates even more strongly...

Emily Zemler
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Come-And-Go Halloween Cartoons at The Athena

Join us all afternoon on October 31st for some fun Halloween activities at The Athena!

We’ll have some fun Halloween cartoons running on a loop, candy and popcorn for your little trick-or-treaters, and a fun puppet show. So, come-and-go at your leisure while you’re uptown for the Athens Uptown Business Association Trick-Or-Treat1

 

Schedule of Events:

1:00-2:30 p.m. – Spooky cartoons

1:00-4:00 p.m. – Popcorn Bag Puppet Show by Nathan

2:00-4:30 p.m. – Athens Uptown Trick-Or-Treat

 

 

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Sustainability Series: GHOST ELEPHANTS with Tom Smucker

Viewing: November 04,2026

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Join us Wednesday, November 4th at 7:00 p.m. for a haunting nature documentary from clebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog!

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

This event will include a presentation by Tom Smucker

About the film

For more than 10 years, conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer Dr. Steve Boyes, has searched the highland plateau and deep forests of Angola for an elusive herd of “Ghost Elephants” — an undiscovered species of African elephant that is said to travel silently through its high-altitude domain, gaining an almost-mythological status among the indigenous peoples of the region.

Written, directed, and narrated by acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man), this haunting and contemplative film joins Boyes on his epic quest, along with some of the world’s best master trackers, in order to prove the existence of an animal long believed to be only a myth.

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The series is made possible thanks to the support of: University Libraries, Honors Tutorial College, Office of Sustainability, and The Voinovich School’s Environmental Studies Program.

 

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Running Time: 98 MIN98 MIN
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OHIO Dad’s Weekend ’26: MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

Viewing: November 06,2026

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Bring your dad. Bring your best British accent. Leave your sense of dignity at the door…

Join us Friday, November 6th and Saturday, November 7th at 7:00 p.m. for a classic British comedy that is sure to get medieval on you and make your “knights” in Athens unforgettable…It’s Monty Python and The Holy Grail!

Two weekend showtimes:

Friday 11/6 at 7:00 p.m.

Saturday 11/7 at 7:00 p.m.

Admission $8

We’ll have special themed cocktails and (maybe) a fire-tossing wizard named Tim.

We encourage you to dress up in a period-correct costume – a gallant knight, a repressed peasant covered in mud, a coconut-clopping squire…even an African swallow. If you’re into that.

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Poking fun at the revered legend of King Arthur and his Knights of The Round Table, the troupe of Pythons pull out all the comedic stops for a wild (and irreverent) ride through the misty Dark Ages! Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam are in top form as various characters in some of the most side-splitting material ever put on screen. Bits like “The Knights Who Say Ni!”, “The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch”, “The Trojan Rabbit”, and “The Black Knight” have etched themselves permanently on the landscape of comedy like the ornate letters in an old biblical manuscript!

Maybe your mother isn’t a hamster, and perhaps your father doesn’t smell like elderberries, but one thing’s for sure — watching this film together will give you and your family a (Came)lot of good times to share!

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Running Time: 90 MIN90 MIN
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HomeReach Hospice Film Series: COCO

Viewing: November 07,2026

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Join us Saturday, November 7th at 1:00 p.m. as we kick off our first-ever Hospice Film Series with a beautifully-animated, Oscar-winning movie about family ties and following your heart!

FREE Admission – Tickets are required

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Despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, young Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead. After meeting a charming trickster named Héctor, the two new friends embark on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel’s family history.

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Running Time: 105 MIN105 MIN
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I SAW THE TV GLOW: Last Day Thursday, June 13th

Watch Trailer Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Cast: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Fred Durst

Back For One Week Only!

From A24 Studios comes a new psychological thriller from filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun. After striking up a friendship, two teen outcasts — Owen (Justice Smith) and Maddy (Bridgette Lundy-Paine) — fake a slumber party at a schoolmate’s house in order to secretly watch an episode of The Pink Opaque, a show for young adults featuring strong mythological and supernatural themes. The two fall in love with the show (and maybe a little with each other). Maddy’s troubled life compels her to run away from home. Owen considers joining her, but he’s forced to remain and take care of his dying mother. Fast-forward 10 years, Maddy mysteriously returns to tell Owen that the substance of The Pink Opaque is, in fact real, and that the two can live there in happiness…if only he can see fit to believe.

With its striking visuals and excellent music soundtrack — in fact, musicians including Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, Phoebe Bridgers, Haley Dahl of Sloppy Jane, and Kristina Esfandiari of Miserable all appear in the film — I Saw the TV Glow is sure to be a hit with fans of Stranger Things and the rest of the A24 catalogue of films.

 

 

 

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Running Time: 100 MIN100 MIN
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It reaches inside your imagination and stirs it around, making new connections between familiar concepts. It’s not just great, it’s fascinating and revelatory.

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HomeReach Hospice Film Series: END GAME

Viewing: November 10,2026

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Join us Tuesday, November 10th at 7:00 p.m. as our new Hospice Film Series continues with a touching documentary short about terminally-ill patients and their visionary doctors coming to terms with life and death

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Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this short film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman follows five terminally ill people in the last weeks of their lives and the forward-thinking medical practitioners who work on the cutting-edge of life and death to dedicate themselves to changing how their patients view both.

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Running Time: 40 MIN40 MIN
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Beat the Heat: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT

Watch Trailer Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Mel Blanc
Awards: Oscar - Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Special Achievement Award

Eddie Valiant is a down-and-out gumshoe in late-1940’s Hollywood who gets entwined in a case that is sure to test what he’s made of. When a big-shot cartoon producer hires Valiant to dig up some dirt on Jessica, the the seemingly-unfaithful “toon” bombshell spouse of cartoon superstar Roger Rabbit, the private eye travels to “Toontown” to sniff out the goings-on of a rival studio exec (and the guy who happens to run Toontown itself). Valiant goes to see Jessica perform her famously sultry crooning act and seems to catch her in the act of seducing the rival exec; however, the man is murdered the following day and Roger Rabbit becomes Suspect No. 1. Valiant has his doubts about Rabbit’s guilt and ends up helping him get to the bottom of this strange set of circumstances. This puts the two at odds with Judge Doom – the chief justice of Toontown – who might just be the lynchpin of what starts to look more and more like a frame job!

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This series is made possible thanks to support from the following sponsors: Athens County Children Services, Southeastern Ohio Treatment Foster Care Network, Ohio University Credit Union, and Athens Area Chamber of Commerce

 

 

 

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Running Time: 104 MIN104 MIN
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