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The Nick & All Good Books invite you to explore iconic stories on the page and the big screen. Read the book, watch the film at The Nick, and join us for a post-screening discussion on how these unforgettable tales come to life in two powerful forms. Grab your copy at All Good Books and get ready for a new way to experience storytelling!

No Other Choice is Park Chan-wook’s razor-sharp satirical black comedy thriller, adapted from Donald Westlake’s The Ax and brought to life by an all-star cast including Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, and Cha Seung-won. Blending Park’s signature precision with biting social critique, the film follows Man-su, a once-stable expert in the paper industry who spirals into murderous desperation as he eliminates his job competitors one by one in a last-ditch effort to save his family and maintain his way of life.

Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack. Based on the motion picture directed by Stanley Kubrick, screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George, based on the book 'Red Alert' by Peter George.

Winner of multiple festival awards and hailed as one of the best documentaries of 2024, Secret Mall Apartment tells the unbelievable true story of eight young Rhode Islanders who secretly built and lived in a hidden apartment inside the Providence Place Mall from 2003 to 2007.

Documentaries are more popular than ever—and they do more than tell stories: they shape how we see the world. This course sharpens your critical eye on the social impact of documentary films, exploring historical, experimental, essay, and activist genres. Through screenings, close readings, and discussions, you’ll examine how form and content influence ideas, public opinion, and social movements, gaining insight into documentaries’ impact on personal perspectives and real-world activism.

Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes badly downhill.

How to Sue the Klan is the story of how five Black women from Chattanooga used legal ingenuity to take on the Ku Klux Klan in a historic 1982 civil case, fighting to hold them accountable for their crimes and bring justice to their community. Their victory set a legal precedent that continues to inspire the ongoing fight against organized hate.

Femme Film Fest is The Nick’s annual celebration of films by and about women. Each year, we shine a light on bold, diverse stories that inspire, challenge, and connect our community. For 2026, our theme is Taking Up Space, honoring feminine voices and visions in spaces and professions traditionally dominated by masculine perspectives.

Join us for a special screening of Hamnet featuring a book club discussion after the film with Queer Haven Books.

American political economist, professor, author, and social media sensation Robert Reich teaches his final "Wealth and Poverty" class to 1,000 students at UC Berkeley, ending a 40-year career that reached 40,000 students. One thousand fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich's wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation's ability to take on the fight is inspiring.

The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) traveling tour provides filmmakers the unique opportunity of having their work screened in front of audiences for whom, in many places, the tour venue is their only access to this form of film art. Each filmmaker participating in the AAFF tour is also paid for each tour stop, directly supporting their filmmaking.

Trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Edwin Augustus Harleston was a portrait artist and early-20th-century civil rights activist in Charleston, South Carolina. With his wife, Elise Forrest Harleston, a professionally trained photographer, he established The Harleston Studio, dedicated to producing portrait photos and paintings that countered the misrepresentation of Black Americans in the American culture of the period. This film takes a deep dive into the lives and works of Teddy and Elise as they struggle to realize their dreams.

A portrait of joy, sorrow, & sound in this exciting collaboration between ColaJazz and Varna International's Muzika! Festival. Muzika! features over 20 exciting performances throughout the state of SC in the month of June.