Announcing the fourth film in our April series, TWILIGHT TWEDNESDAYS, we will be showing, well, the fourth film in the Twilight series, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN- PART ONE, at the historic #babcocktheatre! At this point, Edward and Bella are now happily married in a seemingly blissful relationship with each other. However, very soon after the wedding, a series of misfortune and treacherous betrayals threaten to destroy the world of both humans and vampires!
Sherlock Holmes
Announcing another staff birthday pick! April 18th we are celebrating the birthday of one of our longest working employees, Timothy Tanzosh, with a favorite film of his, Guy Ritchies SHERLOCK HOLMES, playing at the historic #babcocktheatre! In this adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous character, the world’s greatest detective and his partner, Doctor John Watson, begin to unravel a dastardly plot that could destroy England, and the duo must race against time to prevent a deadly outcome!
Alice in Wonderland
Saturday, April 20th, (wink, wink) we have another FREE ADMISSION show in our ongoing Movie Buffs series for you and the family to come see! This month, we will be playing the visually stunning 1951 Walt Disney adaptation of ALICE IN WONDERLAND! Spending the sunny afternoon with her sister in a field, Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit hole and is transported into the phantasmagoric world of Wonderland, full of odd characters and kaleidoscopic visuals! Trying to find her way back home, Alice is subjected to many a strange encounter, plenty of musical numbers, and the looming threat of the evil Queen of Hearts!
Mandy
Saturday, April 20th, the historic #babcocktheatre reaches into the dark embrace of the fissure, pulling out another fantastic film for our ongoing monthly Late Night Series. This time, Panos Cosmatos’s hallucinatory, cosmic revenge masterpiece, MANDY comes to the screen to melt your mind and destroy your senses. Red and Mandy live a happy life together in the peaceful woods of the Shadow Mountains in the year of 1983. Their peace is disrupted by a malicious cult, whose leader targets Mandy, believing her to be his prophesized partner. Destroying their lives, Red is left with nothing but a broken mind and a plan to reap the souls of the cult members in an act of violent revenge, fueled by pure sadness and hatred. One of the most visually stimulating films of the last decade, MANDY is a droning dark fantasy that feels like an 80s paperback novel and sounds like abominable doom metal. That means you need to watch it!!
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Announcing the third film in our April series, TWILIGHT TWEDNESDAYS, a retrospective series showing all the films in the ultimate polarizing vampire-drama-cult-classic-series for the ages! The third film in the lineup is (the third film, obviously) THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE! With more time passing, Bella Swan is close to graduating high school as a string of mysterious killings occurs throughout the Seattle area, and a villainous vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the middle of this, Bella must choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, knowing that her choice could reignite an ancient rival between the vampires and werewolves!
Ed Wood
Plan 9 From Outer Space
April 13th, GARBAGE DAY is coming back! This time around, our bizarre series celebrating trash cinema is getting a new addition in the form of Ed Wood’s PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE! Largely considered one of the worst films ever made for multiple decades, this is arguably the ultimate film in the era of atomic-age space schlock! And what’s more, tickets for this Garbage Day film are only going to be ONE DOLLAR! Yeah! and this will play directly after our 30th anniversary screening of ED WOOD, the biopic drama all about the man who made this very film! It’s an awesome double feature! In this wacked out film, space soldiers use electricity to resurrect the recently deceased, forming an army of zombie slaves in an effort to stop humanity from developing the “Solobonite” bomb, capable of threatening the safety of the universe!
Blazing Saddles
Friday, April 12th, we are bringing the classic western Mel Brooks comedy, BLAZING SADDLES to the historic #babcocktheatre in celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary! In a dusty town where everyone’s name is Johnson, a dastardly baron has hopes of building a railroad that needs to pass directly through said town. In order to achieve this, baron Hedley Lemar plans to make the lives for all residents miserable, forcing them to flee. Once the sheriff is killed, the townsfolk demand the governor to recruit a new one, and the baron convinces him to hir Bart, making him the first black sheriff in the west!
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
This Saturday, April 6th, we are showing a terrific film made in Montana (04/06, get it?)! The historic #babcocktheatre will be having a special screening of Michael Cimino’s action packed THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT in celebration of its fiftieth anniversary! Starring a young Clint Eastwood and an even younger Jeff Bridges, old bank robber, Thunderbolt, pairs up with the young and irreverent Lightfoot, getting Thunderbolt’s old crew back together in order to organize and pull off their largest heist yet!
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Announcing the second film in our April series, TWILIGHT TWEDNESDAYS, a retrospective showing of the unforgettable, polarizing, tonally complicated vampire romance series, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON will be playing at the historic #babcocktheatre April 3rd (yeah, we are announcing and playing the films in chronological order, who would’ve thought?? Shocker!)! Following the events of the first film, Edward Cullen departs from Bella, and she tries to find comfort in the company of Jacob Black, but she is consequently thrown into the middle of a centuries-old conflict!