Ishirō Honda introduced us to a more magical take on the kaiju genre with Mothra — a giant moth looking to protect its people. Survivors shipwrecked on a remote island discover a native population that worships a mythical deity called Mothra. After the island’s fairies priestesses are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman, Mothra journeys to Tokyo to rescue them at all costs.
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We’re opening the 2023 Pittsburgh Japanese Film Festival with this wildly fun, comic-book style cult classic. A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha…. which is pretty much all you need to know about why this movie rules.
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We are wrapping up two weeks of monster-movie fun the best way we know how — a Destroy All Monsters Brew & View!
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We are FINALLY showing the film that took box offices by storm in 2022. Tom Cruise returns to his role as Maverick to train a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
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This film has it all — bombs, ransom money, rigged public transportation, Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves! A high speed nightmare unfolds on a bus that will explode if it slows down in LA traffic and sets the scene for one of the best action films of the 1990s!
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Harrison Ford’s whip cracking, swashbuckling first film of the Indiana Jones franchise returns to Row House Cinema. Jones — a tweed-clad professor/adventure- loving archaeologist — goes up against the entire Nazi regime in pursuit of the Ark of the Covenant.
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Kurt Russel plays trucker Jack Burton in this rollicking and fun action fantasy mashup film. Jack’s trip to…
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For Ages, Aliens have locked up their prisoners in humans bodies.
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Yeon Sang-ho’s high-speed take on the zombie genre is everything horror should be — smart, exciting, and wildly creative in its morbidity. When a zombie outbreak seizes South Korea, the passengers on a high-speed train to Busan fight to survive.
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Possibly the perfect action movie, this apocalyptic story is set in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
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