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The historic Babcock Theatre is having a special on adrenaline rushes on the 26th of July with a special screening of the non-stop action epic, SPEED, in celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary! Keanu Reeves stars as L.A. SWAT cop Jack Traven, who is on a relentless hunt for crazed explosives expert Howard Payne. Thirsty for some major ransom money, Payne riggs a skyscraper elevator to detonate, and follows that up by rigging a bus with explosives- and Jack has got to keep it moving, because if it drops below 60 mph, it’s set to blow- resulting in a city-wide collision course as Jack must improvise on his deadly route if he is to stop Payne! 30 years later, and SPEED still holds up a legitimately impressive pulse-pounder, full of stunts, explosions, Keanu, and all the other good stuff you’d want in a 90s action flick!

July 27th, the historic Babcock Theatre flips our monthly Late Night screening into maximum overdrive, bursting through the screen like an explosive dynamo, morphing into the insane film that is TETSUO: THE IRON MAN! Celebrating its 35th anniversary, this legendary visual experience from Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto is unlike anything you have ever seen before, with an intense mood and jarring cinematography that is equally reminiscent of German expressionism and 80s experimental industrialism, connected together by a bridge made of biomechanical abominations moving at breakneck speed!
When a metal fetishist is driven mad by the maggots in the wounds he has made in his body to insert metal into, he runs through the streets at night and is struck by the car of a businessman and his girlfriend. The couple secretly dispose of the body and hope to move on with their lives, but the businessman soon finds that the fetishist now haunts him in the form of a strange curse that begins to painfully transform parts of his body into unrecognizable masses of iron and flesh!
If you have been a fan of our Late Night series, you will absolutely not want to miss TETSUO: THE IRON MAN! There are reasons that this film has stood as an uncontested cornerstone of experimental cult cinema that must be seen to be believed, as descriptions cannot do it justice!

July 25th, Skynet is taking over Art House Cinema and Pub with a special 40th anniversary screening of James Cameron’s cyberpunk-noir-slasher-action epic, THE TERMINATOR, as part of Art House Theater Day, where we will begin to screen some contemporary and classic favorites within the seating of our large Art House seating as opposed to the usual screening at the Babcock Theatre! After four whole decades, THE TERMINATOR’s complementary combo of sleek cybernetics against gritty city backdrops, a stellar soundtrack, and plenty of Arnold and explosions are just the beginning of the list of reasons as to why this has held up so well over the years! In post-apocalyptic future, the tyrannical supercomputer overlords send a robotic assassin back in time to kill ordinary Sarah Connor, who is unknowingly destined to give birth the person who will lead future insurgents in an uprising against the computers! To combat this, the human resistance from the future sends back a lone warrior to protect Sarah! Will be able to save Sarah from this indestructible, relentless menace from the future? Find out at Art House, July 25th!

Wednesday, July 24th, we are bringing Bikini Bottom to the historic Babcock Theatre when we host an incredibly special screening of the late, historic cartoonist Stephen Hillenburg’s contemporary odyssey, THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE, in celebration of the film’s 20th anniversary! After two whole decades (yeah, TWO DECADES, your youth is fleeting, but SpongeBob is an immortal juggernaut- roses have thorns or something!), this film is still a cornerstone of 2000s animation with an energetic charisma that has helped it maintain its timeless qualities with ease! When the titular Krusty Krab employee is denied the opportunity to become manager of the newly opening Krusty Krab 2 due to his age and childish demeanor, he goes on a bleak bender until his sense of purpose is restored by an opportunity to show off his loyalty and selflessness. Neptune’s crown has been stolen, and Mr. Krabs is frozen in ice with a date set for execution when he is pinned as the culprit! SpongeBob and Patrick make a deal with Neptune to venture off to Shell City in order to retrieve his crown before Mr. Krabs’ execution date- but can the duo prove they have enough maturity and courage to get the crown, save Mr Krabs, and protect Bikini Bottom from Plankton’s plan to raise an army of brainwashed slaves??? Find out on the 24th! Same sponge time, same sponge channel!

Announce the next summer blockbuster classic to be screening at the historic Babcock Theatre! Join us July 19th as we step back in time a few million years with a special showing of Steven Spielberg’s unforgettably fantastic and nightmarish JURASSIC PARK! Just over thirty years old, this film still stands as a legendary achievement of suspense and adventure, thanks to its wonderful direction, acting, tension, and incredible effects (Phil Tippet is the MAN!)! A wealthy entrepreneur develops a theme park featuring live dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. Before the park opens, he invites a team of experts and their children to privately experience the park, but thing do not go as expected, and it quickly becomes a fight for survival when the park’s security system goes offline, releasing all the dinosaurs from their habitat!