Screenings
News and announcements regarding fantasy films, mystery movies, horror flicks, and science fiction cinema screening in theatres in and around Los Angeles.
The Last Exorcism Part 2: March 1
Location: nationwide
Description: CBS Films releases sequel to the interesting but ultimately muddled 2010 film. Ed Gass Donnelly takes over the director’s chair from Daniel Stamm, working from a script he re-wrote from a draft by Damien Chazell, based on characters created by Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland. Ashley Bell returns as Nell Sweetzer, the phony [...]
Beautiful Creatures: February 13
Location: nationwide
Description: Warner Brothers releases this fantasy film from Alcon Entertainment.Richard LaGravenese wrote and directed, based on the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The cast includes Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Alice Englert, and Alden Ehrenreich. The story follows Lena (Englert), a high school girl whose family is believed by the local [...]
2001: A Space Odyssey – February 1 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction masterpiece screens at midnight.
Date: February 1, 2013
Mulholland Drive: March 15 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: David Lynch’s brain-bendingly surreal film noir screens at midnight.
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-03-15
The Thing: March 8 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: John Carpenter’s 1982 film adaptation of John W. Campbell’s story “Who Goes There?” (previously filmed by producer Howard Hawks in 1941 as THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD) screens at midnight.
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-03-08
Scott Pilgrim vs the World: February 15 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: The comic book adaptation about a young man who must battle his girlfriend’s evil ex’s, screens at midnight.
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-02-15
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Disappointing film version of Pink Floyd’s concept album screens at midnight
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-02-22
Holy Motors: February 8 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Director Leox Carax’s surreal film screens at midnight (the crazy red-bearded “monster” from his episode of TOKYO re-appears).
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-02-08
Bubba Ho-Tep: January 18 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Don Coscarelli’s tongue-in-cheek horror film in which Elvis meets the undead, screens at midnight
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-01-18
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters – January 25
Location: nationwide
Description: Paramount Pictures offers up this R-rated, action-oriented spin on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Tommy Wirkola (DEAD SNOW) directed from a script he co-wrote with Dante Harper. Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star as the title characters, here portrayed as adult witch-hunters. Famke Janssen co-stars as the witch Muriel. Peter Stormare, Thomas Mann, [...]
Mama: January 18 debut
Universal Pictures releases this horror film, presented by Guillermo Del Toro. Andres Mushietti directed, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Neil Cross and Barbara Mushietti, based on his 2008 short subject.The cast includes Jessica Chastain, Nikoaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nelisse, Daniel Kash, Javier Botet, and Jane Moffat as the voice of Mama. The story [...]
John Dies at the End, with writer-director Don Coscarelli in person
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Magnet Releasing begins its limited platform theatrical release for this bizarre fantasy film with a one-week engagement at the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles. Chase Williamson leads a cast that includes Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti (LADY IN [...]
A Haunted House opens
Location: nationwide
Description: This send-up of PARNORMAL ACTIVITY, THE DEVIL INSIDE, and other recent horror offerings opens nationwide, courtesy of Open Road Films and Endgame Enterainment. Michael Tiddes directed, from a script by Rick Alvarez and Marlon Wayans, the latter of whom worked on the first couple of SCARY MOVIE spoofs, so you can guess where [...]
