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Troll 2

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  • Today, Nov 14
  • Thu, Nov 21

Director: Claudio Fragasso Run Time: 95 min. Release Year: 1990

Starring: Connie Young, George Hardy, Margo Prey, Michael Stephenson, Robert Ormsby

The Original Boogeyman is Back.

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Heretic w/ In-Person Directors’ Q&A

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  • Sat, Nov 16

Sat, Nov 16 @ 7:00 pm: Special in-person Q&A with the film's directors after the screening.

Director: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck Run Time: 111 min. Release Year: 2024

Starring: Chloe East, Elle Young, Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Topher Grace

Question everything.

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon with Audience Interaction

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  • Tue, Nov 19

Director: Chris Weitz Run Time: 131 min. Release Year: 2009

Starring: Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart, Michael Sheen, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner

The Next Chapter Begins.

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Live Magic Lantern with Historian Mike Zahs

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  • Wed, Nov 20

Wed, Nov 20 @ 7:00 pm: Live Magic Lantern Performance Read More ›

Run Time: 90 min.

Experience what cinema was like before the advent of motion pictures as historian and collector Mike Zahs presents...

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Gladiator II

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  • Thu, Nov 21
  • Fri, Nov 22

Director: Ridley Scott Run Time: 148 min. Release Year: 2024

Starring: Connie Nielsen, Denzel Washington, Joseph Quinn, Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal

Prepare to be entertained.

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Wicked

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  • Thu, Nov 21

Director: Jon M. Chu Run Time: 160 min. Release Year: 2024

Starring: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh

Everyone deserves the chance to fly.

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Wicked Pre-Screening Singalong

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  • Fri, Nov 22

Fri, Nov 22 @ 6:00 pm: Join Varsity Cinema and Des Moines Performing Arts for a WICKED event!

Director: Jon M. Chu Run Time: 220 min. Release Year: 2024

Starring: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh

Everyone deserves the chance to fly.

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The Last Waltz

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  • Wed, Nov 27

Director: Martin Scorsese Run Time: 117 min. Release Year: 1978

Starring: Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson

It Started as a Concert. It Became a Celebration.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – 50th Anniversary Restoration

Opens on November 28

Director: Tobe Hooper Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 1974

Starring: Allen Danziger, Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Teri McMinn, William Vail

Who will survive and what will be left of them?

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Elf

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  • Tue, Dec 3

Director: Jon Favreau Run Time: 97 min. Release Year: 2003

Starring: Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Will Ferrell

This holiday, discover your inner elf.

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Harvey

Opens on December 5

Director: Henry Koster Run Time: 104 min. Release Year: 1950

Starring: Cecil Kellaway, Charles Drake, James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow

The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play … becomes one of the Great Motion Pictures of our Time!

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Hundreds of Beavers – Holiday Special Event

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  • Thu, Dec 5

Director: Mike Cheslik Run Time: 108 min. Release Year: 2024

Starring: Doug Mancheski, Luis Rico, Olivia Graves, Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Wes Tank

Possibly thousands.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night – 40th Anniversary

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  • Thu, Dec 5

Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr. Run Time: 79 min. Release Year: 1984

Starring: Charles Dierkop, Gilmer McCormick, Lilyan Chauvin, Robert Brian Wilson, Toni Nero

He knows when you've been naughty.

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Elf: Kids Holiday Movie & Santa

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  • Sat, Dec 7
  • Sun, Dec 8

Sat, Dec 7 @ 1:00 pm: Visit Santa & get a cookie before the screening!Sun, Dec 8 @ 1:00 pm: Visit Santa & get a cookie before the screening!

Director: Jon Favreau Run Time: 97 min. Release Year: 2003

Starring: Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Will Ferrell

This holiday, discover your inner elf.

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The Holdovers

Opens on December 10

Director: Alexander Payne Run Time: 133 min. Release Year: 2023

Starring: Brady Hepner, Carrie Preston, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Paul Giamatti

Discomfort and joy.

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Maria

Opens in December

Director: Pablo Larraín Run Time: 123 min. Release Year: 2024

Starring: Alba Rohrwacher, Angelina Jolie, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Pierfrancesco Favino

1977: Maria Callas, once the world’s greatest opera diva, lives in seclusion in Paris with her staff and...

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Maria + Q&A with Des Moines Metro Opera

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  • Wed, Dec 11

Wed, Dec 11 @ 7:00 pm: Special Q&A with esteemed opera expert Roger Pines before the screening.

Director: Pablo Larraín Run Time: 123 min. Release Year: 2024

Starring: Alba Rohrwacher, Angelina Jolie, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Pierfrancesco Favino

Join us for a pre-screening conversation with renowned opera scholar Roger Pines. Roger is recognized nationally and internationally...

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Gremlins

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  • Thu, Dec 12

Director: Joe Dante Run Time: 106 min. Release Year: 1984

Starring: Corey Feldman, Frances Lee McCain, Hoyt Axton, Phoebe Cates, Zach Galligan

Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous.

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Queer

Opens on December 13

Director: Luca Guadagnino Run Time: 137 min. Release Year: 2024

Starring: Colin Bates, Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Omar Apollo

The door is already open.

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A Christmas Story

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  • Sat, Dec 14
  • Sun, Dec 15

Director: Bob Clark Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 1983

Starring: Darren McGavin, Ian Petrella, Jean Shepherd, Melinda Dillon, Peter Billingsley

A tribute to the original, traditional, one-hundred-percent, red-blooded, two-fisted, all-American Christmas.

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Tangerine

Opens in December

Director: Sean Baker Run Time: 87 min. Release Year: 2015

Starring: Alla Tumanian, Karren Karagulian, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mickey O'Hagan, Mya Taylor

It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend...

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AGFA’s Special Christmas Special

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  • Thu, Dec 19

Run Time: 70 min. Release Year: 2020

AGFA’S SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL is a brand new, feature-length mixtape culled from the tinsel-strewn video vaults of the...

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The Muppet Christmas Carol

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  • Sat, Dec 21
  • Sun, Dec 22

Director: Brian Henson Run Time: 85 min. Release Year: 1992

Starring: Dave Goelz, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Michael Caine, Steve Whitmire

A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his...

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It’s a Wonderful Life

Opens on December 22

Director: Frank Capra Run Time: 130 min. Release Year: 1946

Starring: Donna Reed, Henry Travers, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

It's a wonderful laugh! It's a wonderful love!

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Nosferatu

Opens in December

Director: Robert Eggers Run Time: 132 min. Release Year: 2024

Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bill Skarsgård, Emma Corrin, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult

Succumb to the darkness.

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The Room Next Door

Opens on January 17

Director: Pedro Almodóvar Run Time: 107 min. Release Year: 2024 Language: Spanish

Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Alex Høgh Andersen, John Turturro, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid...

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