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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!

Spooky Spawn: Reproductive Body Horror and Perverse Parenthood explores how parent-child relationships, often idealized as nurturing and selfless, can become horrifying. In each film, a parental figure is thrust into unexpected circumstances they can’t fully control. As a result, they place their needs above their children’s, leading to disastrous outcomes that highlight moral corruption. Featuring bone-chillingly monstrous offspring, each story depicts the warped side of human procreation. Gone are rosy cheeks, soft skin, and infant laughter—these grotesque children are anything but endearing. Spooky Spawn lays bare the hidden dread that haunts life’s most joyous milestones, rendering horrors the mind can barely conceive. Spooky Spawn, curated by Julia Elliott and Nima Yolmo, is sponsored by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at USC. All presentational and marketing materials were designed by South Carolina Honors students from Dr. Elliott’s Gender and Monstrosity in Horror Films class. Tickets are $5 for the films in this series.

Experience the celebration of independent films from around the world at the 11th Annual South Carolina Underground Film Festival, where all genres of films have been welcomed with open arms since 2015.​ Get ready for three action-packed days of indie films at SCUFF as fans and filmmakers come together to celebrate obscure and independent cinema.

Akira Kurosawa’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Ran considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s (Tatsuya Nakadai) decision to split his kingdom among his three sons.

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.

Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to the promise of the Land Back movement, in this lyrical testament to resilience of a nation.

Directed by Chris Eyre and written by Sherman Alexie, the first feature-length film written, directed, and produced by Native Americans to reach a wide audience. This acclaimed coming-of-age story follows Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire as they embark on a journey that explores family, friendship, and identity. Winner of multiple Sundance Film Festival awards and praised for its humor and heart, Smoke Signals continues to resonate today, making it a powerful selection for our ReelTalk Classics series.

Possibly the most daring social experiment in the South during the last century, Koinonia Farm faced years of terror, boycotts and intimidation in the years leading up to the tumultuous Civil Rights era. Broadcast on PBS stations nationwide from 2005 – 2010, this award-winning documentary is a compelling chronical of heroic humility and uncommon courage.

Pack your bags — Home Movie Day is back! This year’s program takes you on a Grand Tour across Europe, reimagined through the lens of home movies. From ocean crossings to cobblestone streets, join us in celebrating travel, memory, and the magic of amateur filmmaking. Presented by Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina. Admission is free.

Ridley Scott’s The Martian (2015) is a gripping survival epic starring Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars, blending thrilling drama with sharp humor and grounded science. A critical and commercial success, the film was named one of the top 10 films of 2015 by the American Film Institute and received seven Academy Award nominations, winning two Golden Globes. Presented as part of Science on Screen®, a national program that pairs films with engaging talks connecting cinema to science, technology, and medicine.

"Are You a Librarian? Black Librarians and Freedom Through Literacy" is a forthcoming documentary that delves into the rich and often overlooked history of Black librarianship in the United States.

At the height of the AIDS crisis, many gay men sold their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash. This documentary charts the rise and fall of the hundred-million-dollar “gay-death-profiteering” industry that grew out of their desperation, and spotlights one of its earliest investors: the filmmaker’s father.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, one of cinema’s most groundbreaking and provocative films. After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr. Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters.

Join us for a one-of-a-kind evening celebrating the life, music, and enduring legacy of Jeff Buckley with a special screening of It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, directed by Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Amy Berg

Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.

In the 1980s Keith Haring blazed a trail through the galleries and nightclubs of downtown New York's art scene. Rebellious and ingenious, This new feature documentary blends stunning archive and an edgy soundtrack, with tender and candid first-hand accounts of Haring. It tells the extraordinary story of an artist who lived and created with a boundless energy, throughout the social, cultural and political counter-revolution of the 1980s. This screening is in partnership with the Columbia Museum of Art.