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Best of 2018 | Nick & Indie Grits Staff Picks
Jan 16 • Events, Programming
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The Hunger and the Lesbian Vampire Genre
Oct 23 • Programming
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Medusa's Gaze: The Monstrous Feminine
Oct 18 • Programming
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Now Playing • May 17–May 23
Red Joan
Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is living out a quiet retirement when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information to the Soviet government. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled while challenging sexism; her love affair with a political radical; and the devastation of World War II, which inspired her to risk everything in pursuit of peace.
Now Playing • May 17–May 23
Tolkien
Tolkien explores the formative years of the renowned author’s life as he finds friendship, courage, and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including Tolkien’s (Nicholas Hoult) tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt (Lily Collins), until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-earth novels.
Now Playing • May 17–May 23
Wild Nights with Emily
In the mid-19th century, Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon) is writing prolifically, baking gingerbread, and enjoying a passionate relationship with another woman. Yes, this is the iconic poet, popularly thought to have been a recluse. While seeking publication of some of her poems, Emily finds herself facing male gatekeepers too confused to take her work seriously. Instead, her work attracts the attention of an ambitious woman editor who sees Emily as a convenient cover for her own role in a bizarre love triangle.
Now Playing • May 21
A Kid Like Jake
Alex and Greg are lucky to have a kid like Jake. He is bright, precocious, and creative. Jake’s “gender-expansive” behavior—as preschool director Judy (Octavia Spencer) dubs it—is no big deal. Or so it seems, until navigating NYC’s competitive private school system opens up a parental quagmire. Split in their opinions, Alex and Greg find themselves navigating a minefield with one patch of common ground between them: their desire to do what’s right for Jake.
This film is part of our OUT Here series.
Coming Soon • May 25
The Punk Singer
An exciting portrait of the hugely influential Bikini Kill icon Kathleen Hanna, featuring intimate interviews and electric concert footage.
This film is part of our Sound & Vision series.
Ony Ratsimbaharison will perform before the screening.
Coming Soon • May 25
The Biggest Little Farm
The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the Chester’s unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.
Coming Soon • Jun 3
Pulp Fiction
Join us in celebrating Pulp Fiction's 25th Anniversary with a special screening, complete with "Big Kahuna" burgers and "Five Dollar" milkshakes!
A pair of low-rent hit men, Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson), are sent out to collect a stolen briefcase for their boss, Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Having proven himself worthy, Wallace then entrusts Vincent to entertain his wife, Mia (Uma Thurman), while he is out of town. Meanwhile, Wallace has paid off aging boxer Butch (Bruce Willis) to throw his next fight. The lives of these wildly entertaining characters intertwine with unexpected and violent consequences.
Coming Soon • Jun 5
The Third Wife
In 19th century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon, she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May’s hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options available to her are few and far between.
Wednesday, June 5 at 7:00pm.
This film is part of our Foreign Focus series.
Coming Soon • Jun 9
Boyz N the Hood
"The Hood" is a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment are rampant, but it is also a place where harmony coexists with adversity, especially for three young men growing up there: Doughboy (Ice Cube), an unambitious drug dealer, his brother Ricky (Morris Chestnut), a college-bound teenage father, and Ricky's best friend Tre (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), who aspires to a brighter future beyond "The Hood." The lessons they learn are put to the ultimate test when tragedy strikes close to home, and violence seems like the only recourse.
Sunday, June 9 at 5:00pm.
Coming Soon • Jun 11
Monrovia, Indiana
Monrovia, Indiana explores a small town in rural, mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity, and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived along with conflicting stereotypes. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a way of life whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America and in other countries.
Tuesday, June 11 at 6:30pm.
This film is part of our For the Record series.
Coming Soon • Jun 22
Despicable Me
A man who delights in all things wicked, supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) hatches a plan to steal the moon. Surrounded by an army of little yellow minions and his impenetrable arsenal of weapons and war machines, Gru makes ready to vanquish all who stand in his way. But nothing in his calculations and groundwork has prepared him for his greatest challenge: three adorable orphan girls (Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Elsie Fisher) who want to make him their dad.
