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OPENING FRIDAY,
September 5th
After Ashley (Adria Arjona) asks for a divorce, good-natured Carey (Kyle Marvin) runs to his friends, Julie (Dakota Johnson) and Paul (Michael Angelo Covino), for support. He's shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage, that is until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.
Relationships/Comedy | R | 1h 40m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/splitsville_2025
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Playing thru SUNDAY
September 7th
Jeff Buckley, a rising star with an otherworldly voice, left the '90s music world reeling when he died suddenly after the release of his debut album. Told through never-before-seen footage and intimate accounts from the three women who knew him best, the film, created & directed by Amy Berg, illuminates one of modern music's most influential and enigmatic figures.
Documentary/Biography/Music | NR | 1h 48m
* * * 25 minute concert video added to the end
of the movie! So stick around! * * *
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/its_never_over_jeff_buckley
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Music Video: Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin (Live at Glastonbury 1995 - HQ sound):
https://youtu.be/UuqeGtN6IEs?si=3kcKAkBr1NBSr2hD
A nuanced and deeply personal portrait of master educator Robert Reich teaching his final course and reflecting on a period of immense transformation, personally and globally. It is a love letter to education. The former Secretary of Labor might be famous for his public service, best-selling books, and viral social media posts, but he always considered teaching his true calling. Now, after over 40 years and an extraordinary 40,000 students, Reich is preparing for his last class. Over the course of the film, Reich confronts the impending finality, and his own aging, with increasing candor, introspection, and, ultimately, emotion. He displays a rawness of feeling he has never shared publicly before. Drawing on his lifetime in politics, he uses his class, “Wealth and Poverty,” to offer us all a deeper look at why inequalities of income and wealth have widened significantly since the late 1970s, and why this poses dangerous risks to our society. One thousand students 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.
Documentary/Biography | NR | 1h 11m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_last_class_2025​
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https://www.thelastclassfilm.com/
Playing thru THURSDAY
September 11th
Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can't play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He's got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hank attempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he's got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out.
Mystery/Thriller/Crime/Drama | R | 1h 47m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/caught_stealing
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SPECIAL SCREENING EVENT
REBEL WITH A CLAUSE
Come meet filmmaker Brandt Johnson and the film’s subject, Ellen Jovin, at this special screening!
Sunday, September 14th, 2pm
NR | 1h 26m | Documentary
Tickets Available NOW!
BEFORE THE SHOW, starting at 1pm, Ellen will be at her acclaimed Grammar Table at the theater to answer your most pressing grammar questions and resolve long-standing grammar conflicts.
AFTER THE SHOW, Brandt and Ellen will participate in a Q&A,
followed by a book-signing of Ellen’s national bestseller.
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A grammar guru takes her pop-up grammar advice stand on a rollicking road trip across all 50 states to show that comma fights can bring us closer together in a divided time.
One fall day, Ellen Jovin set up a folding table on a Manhattan sidewalk with a homemade sign that said “Grammar Table.” Right away, passersby began excitedly asking questions, telling stories, and filing complaints. What happened next is the stuff of grammar legend. Ellen and her filmmaker husband, Brandt Johnson, took the table on the road, visiting all 50 states as Brandt shot the grammar action. But this story transcends grammar. It’s the story of an epic quest in a divided time to bring us all closer together.
https://www.rebelwithaclause.com/
SPECIAL SCREENING EVENT
One Night Only!
ENO
Wednesday, September 17th, 7pm
NR | 1h 40m | Documentary/Biography/Music
Tickets Available NOW!
Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing more than 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes in ENO, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Gary Hustwit (HELVETICA, RAMS).
In the first career-spanning documentary of the legendary and prolific artist and the world’s first generative feature film, Hustwit set out to decode Eno's creative strategies and examine his lifelong search for the meaning of music. Defying the hagiographic impulses of the music doc genre, Eno draws from original interviews and the artist’s own staggering archive of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music, as well as Hustwit’s original interviews.
Utilizing a proprietary software system developed by Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes, Eno offers millions of possible variations and ushers in a groundbreaking approach to storytelling. The result is a viewing experience that resonates with Eno’s own artistic practice, his use of technology to compose music, and the mercurial essence of creativity as his endless pursuit.
Film First is organizing the final premium screening event
with art house theaters worldwide to exhibit ENO.
No two screenings are ever the same.
Reviews: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eno
SPECIAL SCREENING EVENT
Benefiting Meals on Wheels Spokane
Secret movie!
COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN X-SPO
Friday, September 19th
Doors at 6:30pm
Movie at 7pm
Movie will be Spooky-Fun themed for ALL Ages. Runtime: 103min
Entry with
Donation of 5 Non-Perishable Items or $5
RSVP NOW!
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Join us as we "Countdown to Halloween X-SPO"
with a special event at the Magic Lantern Theater!
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Bring 5 (five) non-perishable items or $5
(Benefiting Meals on Wheels of Spokane)
when you come to the Magic Lantern Theater
& stay for a Secret Movie screening for FREE.
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All donated non-perishable food items collected
must be unopened and not yet expired.
The top three donations (more than 5 items) will win
a pair of FREE tickets to Halloween X-SPO 2025.
We recommend you RSVP online to reserve your free seat.
Stop by the Magic Lantern Concessions
for great deals on snacks & drinks for the occasion.​
SPECIAL SCREENING EVENT
Presented by shadowhouse | FILMS
CLOWN II
Saturday, September 20th at 4pm
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Seeking a fresh start, a troubled young woman moves in with her eccentric aunt in a seemingly sleepy small town—only to find that the locals have unusual interest in her family’s past. As she delves deeper, the body count rises. This dark horror-comedy sequel/sendup to the 2006 film, examines inherited secrets, cultish clowns, and the fine line between laughter and terror!
Written and Directed by Robert Newman
Starring: Gabrielle Deleo, Jolee Holder, Ben Bettis, Jake Hicks, Cadence Newman, Kirsten Koenig, and Jesse Kyriss.
Rated R for strong language, violence, and gore.
Tickets are by donation.
NOTE: You do not need to donate to reserve a ticket!
LIVE COMEDY EVENT!!
AARON FOSTER
Saturday, September 20th, 7pm
80 min Show
Tickets Available Now
(There are no hard copy tickets; your name will be on a list at the theater along with the number of tickets purchased.)
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Named "Best Solo Show" at the 2025 Tucson Fringe Festival
Interview/review in the Pacific Sun Newspaper
First performed at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
to reviews such as:
"Subversively funny, laugh out loud gallows humor."
"Some shows claim to be dark humor, but this was the absolute epitome of it."
"You will fall in love with a man who would rather you not."
"A laugh every 20 seconds."
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It’s mostly jokes… mostly. Growing up with a bipolar father
and a schizophrenic older brother left Aaron Foster with a combination of survivor’s guilt, depression and anxiety
that has invalidated his every accomplishment, destroyed his every relationship and invaded his every waking thought.
A comedy!
Foster is the former host of HGTV’s FreeStyle
and has performed stand up at The Comedy Store,
The IMPROV, The Ice House, The Ha Ha, The Comedy Chateau, Flappers, as well runs his own usually sold out theater shows in Reno, Nevada. A few of his main influences are Mike Birbiglia, Maria Bamford, Gary Gulman, Marc Maron, Taylor Tomlinson and Neal Brennan. Do with that information what you will.
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Dates subject to change.
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Opens 9/12
The 4K restoration of a modern masterpiece.
The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.
Drama | NR | 2h 53m
(In Mandarin, with English subtitles)
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/yi_yi
Opens 9/19
Directed by Oliver Hermanus, written by Ben Shattuck, and based on his short story of the same name, the film follows the relationship between Lionel (Paul Mescal) and David (Josh O'Conner), who meet in 1917 while attending the Boston Music Conservatory, and, after World War I, travel together recording folk songs of their countrymen in rural Maine in the summer of 1920.
Romance/Drama/History/LGBTQ+ | R | 2h 7m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_history_of_sound
Opens 10/3
The story of the rise and hight of the career of legendary mixed-martial arts and UFC champion Mark Kerr (Dwayne Johnson). Also starring Emily Blunt as Kerr's then-wife Dawn Staples, and with Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten and Oleksandr Usyk in supporting roles.
Biography/Drama/Sports | R | 2h 3m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_smashing_machine_2025
Opens 10/24
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley's classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Horror/Drama/Fantasy | R | 2h 29m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frankenstein_2025
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