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  • New York Times Review: The Director Lloyd Kaufman Returns With a Shakespeare Spoof

    New York Times Review: The Director Lloyd Kaufman Returns With a Shakespeare Spoof

    Should you be among those lamenting the lack of whale feces and exploding genitalia coming to a theater near you, not to worry: Troma Entertainment hears your pain. And with “#ShakespearesShitstorm” — billed, I kid you not, as a musical adaptation of “The Tempest” — the durable director Lloyd Kaufman lobs multiple notions at the screen to see what sticks. In a movie held together with this many slimy fluids, pretty much everything does.A good-natured dig at addiction, Big Pharma and the judgmentalism of liberal elites, the movie follows the efforts of a wronged scientist (Kaufman) to exact revenge on the sleazy head of an avaricious drug company (Abraham Sparrow). A lucid plot, though, is surplus to requirements as we’re dragged into a debauched shipboard party (cue the flatulent whales) and an interminable crack house orgy, while Kaufman and company gleefully lampoon social-media warriors and cultural appropriation. Wiggling women and tumescent men bump up against a revolting spoof of the elevator scene from “The Shining” (1980), and an animated sequence from the talented Josh Stifter briefly raises the tone. Excrement and other forms of ejaculate spurt continuously, suggesting that this bona fide abomination was even more disgusting to act in than to watch.It’s all quite insane, if par for the course for Troma, which has been churning out these low-budget curios for close to 50 years now. As sitcoms are to TV and Pink Floyd is to vinyl, Kaufman’s film feels made for a more nostalgic medium and a more substance-enhanced viewing experience. Its makers, however, deserve praise simply for living up to that doozy of a title.
  • Q&A after Friday's April 22, 7:00pm show with Igor Drljaca, Writer & Director of The White Fortress

    Q&A after Friday's April 22, 7:00pm show with Igor Drljaca, Writer & Director of The White Fortress

    In a rundown Sarajevo suburb, Faruk is an orphan who lives with his ill grandmother and spends his days foraging for scrap metal and dabbling in petty crime. One day he meets Mona, a timid teen from a politically powerful and affluent family. As Mona dreams of escaping the overbearing toxicity of her home life, she seeks refuge and opens herself up to Faruk, a boy from a world entirely different than her own.
  • #SHAKESPEARE'S SHITSTORM Q&A on Friday 4/15 & Saturday 4/16 at 7:45pm with Lloyd Kaufman

    #SHAKESPEARE'S SHITSTORM Q&A on Friday 4/15 & Saturday 4/16 at 7:45pm with Lloyd Kaufman

    Q&A on Saturday 4/9 at 10:45pm with Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment & Creator of The Toxic Avenger
  • ‘As They Made Us’ Q&A with Executive Producer & Actor John Wollman. Friday 4/8 after 7:00pm show

    ‘As They Made Us’ Q&A with Executive Producer & Actor John Wollman. Friday 4/8 after 7:00pm show

    A divorced mom tries to make peace with her dysfunctional family as she finds a second chance at love.
  • Q&A Friday 3/4 & Saturday 3/5 @ 10:00pm show with director Eamon O’Rourke, composer Lilah Larson, &

    Q&A Friday 3/4 & Saturday 3/5 @ 10:00pm show with director Eamon O’Rourke, composer Lilah Larson, &

    ASKING FOR IT Q&A Friday 3/4 & Saturday 3/5 @ 10:00pm show with director Eamon O’Rourke, composer Lilah Larson, & Jendra Jarnagin, director of photography
  • The Gucci family had it all. She wanted more. Watch #HouseOfGucci TODAY!

    The Gucci family had it all. She wanted more. Watch #HouseOfGucci TODAY!

    Spanning three decades of love, betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately murder, we see what a name means, what it's worth, and how far a family will go for control.
  • This Game's Called Murder starts 12/3

    This Game's Called Murder starts 12/3

    A modern, dark-humored tale of greed, romance, and lost innocence in consumer-crazed, alienated society that functions as a harsh critique of society today without taking itself too seriously.
  • Spider-man: No Way Home $8.00 Student Tickets!

    Spider-man: No Way Home $8.00 Student Tickets!

    For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a Super Hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange, the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.
  • Tigre Gente starts 12/3

    Tigre Gente starts 12/3

    The Madidi National Park is home to rich and treasured land. In particular, the director of the park, is resolute in tracking down the illicit jaguar trade that has been pervasive in Bolivia, and disrupting the eradication of the species.
  • Don't miss OFF THE RAILS (12/10)

    Don't miss OFF THE RAILS (12/10)

    Three fifty-something women set out to repeat the European inter-railing adventures of their youth, after their close friend passes away leaving them rail tickets, and a final request: to take her teenage daughter with them.
  • Beijing Spring starts December 10

    Beijing Spring starts December 10

    The documentary film of the brief window of artistic freedom and democracy movement 1978 - 1982 following China's brutal cultural revolution.