Genre film lifer Mick Strawn is one of Central Cinema’s favorite guests, having joined us to discuss his various behind-the-scenes roles on films like BLADE, MORTAL KOMBAT and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4. But until now we’ve never got around to the most intriguing credit in Mick’s wild filmography: his work as Production Designer and miniatures coordinator on 1994’s infamously unreleased Roger Corman production of Marvel’s FANTASTIC FOUR. Join us and Nirvana Comics as we welcome Mick back to walk us through this unique film and its production… plus a special guest appearance from Justin Mason, the artist behind Marvel’s newly-revived The Thing standalone title."

Our evening with the Found Footage Festival continues with this 2022 documentary about the duo's legally controversial comic exploits. Childhood friends turned professional comedians Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett book their gag-strongman routine on unsuspecting morning news shows. When their pranks go viral, they land in federal court with a vengeful media conglomerate. The stress of the lawsuit and pressure to continue their pranks threaten their livelihood and tests their lifelong friendship. "Chop & Steele plays like one act of artistic defiance after another in celebration of Pickett and Prueher’s love of obscure content, much of which was never cleared for public consumption." - The Film Stage Note: This documentary screening with special guests Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett will be presented as the second half of a double bill event also featuring the duo's live Found Footage Festival 20th Anniversary Show. This ticketing link is for the standalone screening of CHOP & STEELE.

A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.

In a fading Midwestern town, the local legend of Frendo the clown becomes all too real as teenagers start to go missing one by one, before meeting spectacularly sticky ends. With chills, memorable set pieces and messy mayhem aplenty, CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD will be sure to electrify both young horror audiences and fans of the classic slasher movies.

host a cherry-picked program of uproarious home video stunners. Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show) have over 14,000 VHS tapes in their collection and have been taking viewers on a guided tour through their latest and greatest finds since 2004. To celebrate two decades of this VHS nonsense, Joe & Nick will serve up their all-time greatest finds including the dumbest exercise videos, the craziest public access shows and updates with the most wonderful weirdos they’ve met along the way. Note: This 20th anniversary program will be presented as the first half of a double bill event, followed by the FFF-related documentary CHOP & STEELE. This ticketing link is for the standalone live show.

Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time.

When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.

When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.

Central Cinema is pleased to present Alex Ross Perry's appropriately convention-flouting tribute to one of indie rock's defining outfits, kicking off with a special guest Q&A screening with Pavement's Bob Nastanovich on Sunday, June 1. (The film will return for a limited run starting Friday June 6.) PAVEMENTS (2025) | PAVEMENTS is a movie about Pavement the band—among other things. The latest film from acclaimed director Alex Ross Perry (HER SMELL) is a documentary that may or may not be entirely true, may or may not be totally sincere, and may or may not be more about the idea of the band—or any band—than a history of the short-lived, passionately loved, commercially marginal Nineties American alternative group Pavement. This unconventional film about a highly unconventional band incorporates a stage musical, rock biopic, gallery exhibition, archival footage, and contemporary observational footage to create a film as irreducible, uncharacterizable, and entertaining as the band and its music. Anchored by Pavement’s slacker-sage-sphinx, Stephen Malkmus, the film features performances by Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Kathryn Gallagher, Michael Esper and Zoe Lister-Jones, and editing by nonfiction innovator Robert Greene (PROCESSION).

Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.

The year is 1936. An archeology professor named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles of South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap but miraculously escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Rene Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.

Our Asian Underground $7 grab bag series presents a monthly dispatch from the world of alternative Asian genre cinema, notorious and influential for boundary-smashing oddity and extremity. (Not suitable for audiences under the age of 18.)

A collection of skateboarding videos old and new.

Fulci lives!

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

As D-Day approaches, Colonel Breed hands the roguish Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) an important assignment: He must train a team of soldiers to parachute across enemy lines and assassinate German personnel at a French chateau. The soldiers, recruited from murderers, rapists and criminals on death row, are promised commuted sentences. In spite of their history, the 12 men prove a spirited and courageous unit. Led by Major Reisman, they will exact revenge.

Students flooded Columbia University’s lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies. THE ENCAMPMENTS follows the central organizers of the encampment as they are thrust into the spotlight, face violent police repression and suspension, congressional pressure, and a media firestorm, all while fighting to attain their goal of divestment at any cost.

Additional Language: Esperanto. Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.