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Films OPENING FRIDAY, Sept 4th
Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe), a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Intoxicated by the attention -- and by the alluring presence of Gloria (Greta Lee), the group's "tragic heroine" -- Saxberger gradually reckons with the authenticity of his newfound poetic circle. This thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.
Comedy/Drama | NR (Adult Themes) | 1h 36m
Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic
Wendy (Dakota Fanning) believes she's perfectly happy in her relationship, until her older boyfriend, Jack (Jake Johnson), who is divorced with children, insists they take a break to make sure she's truly okay giving up on the idea of marriage and babies. During this time, Wendy unexpectedly runs into her ex, Chuck (Cory Michael Smith), who also reignites her carefree and spontaneous side, and suddenly seems to want a family. The three of them navigate a chaotic, confusing, and often funny relationship triangle, reminding us that the pursuit of love is beautiful and messy all at once.
Drama/Romance | R | 1h 42m
Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic
( ( ( Films Continuing This Week ) ) )
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Playing thru THURSDAY, Sept 10th
Playing thru Labor Day, MONDAY, Sept 7th
After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director
(Hannah Einbinder, Hacks) for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie's star (Gillian Anderson, The X-Files), a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
Psychological Drama/Slasher Horror/
Romantic Epic | R | 1h 46m
Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic
In 1976, a nineteen-year-old Anthony Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) wants to be a writer but takes a summer job at a Provincetown, MA restaurant, initiating him into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, under the tutelage of a Brazilian chef and restauranteur (Antonio Banderas), and setting him on a course shapes the rest of his life. Based on parts of Bourdain's 2000 memoir "Kitchen Confidential".
Biography/Drama | R | 1h 46m
Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic
( ( ( Special Events THIS WEEK & Coming Soon!) ) )
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NOTE: Unfortunately due to unforseen circumstances,
the remaining shows (Friday, Sept 4th & Saturday, Sept 5th) have been CANCELED.
Refunds will be issued for ticket purchases.
NEXT WEEK!
LIVE COMEDY EVENT
PSYCHIC STANDUP
w/Karen rontowski
Saturday, SEPT 12TH
Show Starts at 8:05pm
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(GA & Premium Front Row Seating available.)
Psychic Standup is a show unlike any other. Karen Rontowski combines her 35 years as a standup comic with her 25 years of tarot reading and the results are predictably hilarious. Karen has two DryBar Comedy Specials that currently have over 40 million views and has been seen on the Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central, Comics Unleashed, ComedyDotCom as well as Sirius XM Radio. The show consists of 30-40 minutes of standup and then Karen pulls out the Tarot Cards and takes questions from the crowd. Her incredible improv skills keep the crowd entertained whether they are believers or not. There is something for the serious psychic patron as well as the serious skeptic. Every show is unique and the future never looked so funny. You don’t have to believe or even be open minded, you just have to be ready to laugh.
Real tarot, real funny.
SPECIAL SCREENING EVENT
THe Pain and the power
Screening on Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 15th at 7pm
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!
THE PAIN AND THE POWER is an unflinching documentary portrait of artist, activist, and survivor Logan Lynn, by filmmaker Cai Indermaur. Tracing a 30-year career forged at the intersection of queerness, faith, addiction, trauma, and self-reinvention, and structured around the songs from Lynn’s latest record of the same name, the film treats music not as background but as a living character.
Beginning in rural Nebraska and Texas inside a fundamentalist Christian world hostile to any type of difference, the film follows Lynn’s early sense of displacement, religious trauma, and abuse, and the ways secrecy and fear shaped both identity and survival. Through intimate interviews with Lynn, and decades of archival footage and home movies, the film charts a restless trajectory: early success, underground acclaim, addiction, public collapse, and the slow, deliberate work of rebuilding a life on one’s own terms.
Behind the scenes footage from early music videos, vintage tour clips, and present-day studio conversations collide with moments of humor, tenderness, and brutal honesty. The result is neither a redemption arc nor a nostalgia piece, but a meditation on what it means to outlive the versions of yourself that no longer serve you.
THE PAIN AND THE POWER asks what remains after belief systems fail, relationships end, and the spotlight moves on; and how art can transform damage into something communal, generous, and alive.
https://thepainandthepower.gay/
COMING SOON!
SPECIAL SCREENING EVENT
Presented by Magic Lantern Theatre
BLACK LAGOON HORROR FILM CLUB
MONTHLY SECRET SCREENING
Black Lagoon Film Club is a horror-centric film club hosted by the Magic Lantern Theatre once monthly,
every month of the year!
We aim to screen a wide variety of horror films, from just about every decade & sub-genre of horror.
September's Secret Screening happens on
Sunday, SEPTEMBER (TBD) at 7 PM
TICKETS available at our front concessions counter.
For answers to questions about our film club and/or suggestions for future screenings, please email: blacklagoonfilmclub@gmail.com,
or follow/message us on Instagram at: blacklagoon.fc.
live comedy night w/jonathan van halem
For one night only, Comedian Jonathan van Halem headlines The Magic Lantern in Spokane, WA!
Friday, OCTOBER 19th | 8 - 9:30pm
Jonathan van Halem is a stand-up comedian based out of New York City. Jonathan currently works at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and previously worked at Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out The News. He’s also served as a contributor to the parody website Clickhole.
Known for his observational comedy and relatable style, Jonathan has worked as a frequent opener for comedians such as David Cross, Rory Scovel, Kevin Nealon, Gianmarco Soresi, Kyle Gordon, and Sabrina Wu. He hosts a popular monthly show at Union Hall in Brooklyn called Hot Gossip, which has been featured in The New York Times and Brooklyn Magazine.
Jonathan has achieved significant success online, with clips routinely garnering millions of views on Instagram and TikTok. When he’s not doing comedy, he’s patiently waiting for the New York Mets to win the World Series. His favorite Family Guy character is Stewie.
( ( ( Films Coming Soon ) ) )
Dates subject to change.
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Opens FRIDAY, Sept 11th
A vérité non-fiction film following three prominent physicians--Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian--friends who couldn't be more different but are bound by their shared oath to save lives. Dr. Thaer Ahmad is measured and strategic, Dr. Mark Perlmutter is blunt and wears his heart on his sleeve, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is media-savvy and prolific. Filmed in unfolding, on-the-ground scenes, the story follows them from a Gazan hospital under siege, to the halls of Congress. Together they fight to keep a promise to their Palestinian colleagues and patients, to continue the struggle where it matters most:
the United States.
Documentary | NR | 1h 33m
Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic
Opens FRIDAY, Sept 18th
New 4K Restoration of KWAIDAN!!!
Original 3-hour dirctor's cut, as released in Japan.
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai (Rentarô Mikuni) marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden (Keiko Kishi), but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi (Katsuo Nakamura) is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author (Osamu Takizawa) relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted.
Horror/Fantasy | NR | 2h 44m
(In Japanese, with English subtitles)
Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic
Opens FRIDAY, Sept 25th
A police chief, a policewoman and a group of hunters try to track down and kill a mysterious creature that's laying waste to a Korean village.
Horror/Thriller/Sci-Fi | NR | 2h 40m
(In Korean, with English subtitles)
Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic
In 2006, "To Catch a Predator" host Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) sets out to make television history.
Drama/Mystery/Thriller | NR | 1h 47m
Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic
Opens FRIDAY, Oct 2nd
Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Paul Shaffer, and other entertainment icons got their start in a 1972 Toronto production of the musical Godspell. Featuring interviews with the surviving cast members, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mike Myers, and more, the film recounts a pivotal moment in comedy history, in hilarious, moving, and inspiring detail. Executive produced by Judd Apatow.
Documentary/Musical | NR | 1h 38m
Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic
Opens FRIDAY, Oct 9th
20th Anniversary 4K Re-Release!!!
Guillermo del Toro's internationally acclaimed PAN'S LABYRINTH takes place in 1944, in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
Young Ofelia and her pregnant mother have been brought to live in the countryside, where her brutal stepfather Captain Vidal’s job is to wipe out the remaining rebels camped in the local forest. Nearby, in a hidden labyrinth, Ofelia meets an ageless Faun, who tells her that she is really a princess from an enchanted world. He gives her three tasks which she must complete in order to reclaim her rightful place. As her mother’s failing health threatens the life of her unborn child, Ofelia undertakes a quest to complete the Faun’s tasks.
Fantasy/Drama | R | 1h 58m
(In Spanish, with English subtitles)
Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic
Opens FRIDAY, Nov 6th
A queer epic telling the story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain, inheritance and identity, across three different eras -- 1932, 1937, and 2017.
Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, from a screenplay they co-wrote with Alberto Conejero and inspired by the unfinished work of the same name by Federico García Lorca and Conejero's play La Piedra Oscura, the film features an ensemble cast led by Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz, and Glenn Close.
LA BOLA NEGRA had its world premiere at the 79th Cannes Film Festival of May 2026, earning Calvo and Ambrossi the Best Director Award.
Drama/History/Musical/Romance/War | R |
2h 35m
(In Spanish, with English subtitles)
Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes
Opens FRIDAY, Nov 13th
At the height of the Cold War, FATHERLAND centers on the relationship between the writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) —actress, writer and rally driver—as they embark on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a post-war Germany in ruins.
Period Drama/Biography/History | NR | 1h 22m
(In German, with English subtitles)
Reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes
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