Beat the Heat: The Bad Guys (2022)

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | Good is no fun at all. To avoid prison, a gang of notorious animal criminals pretends to seek being rehabilitated, only for their leader to realize that he genuinely wants to change his ways. What was meant to be a plan of deceit turned into a character change for the better. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | Good is no fun at all. To avoid prison, a gang of notorious animal criminals pretends to seek being rehabilitated, only for their leader to realize that he genuinely wants to change his ways. What was meant to be a plan of deceit turned into a character change for the better. | Country: United States | Language: English

  1. 1:00 pm
  2. 3:30 pm

Beat the Heat: Jurassic Park (1993)

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | Relive the biggest moments in movie history with Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking, Academy Award-winning adventure, based on the novels by Michael Crichton and featuring an epic score from legendary composer John Williams. | Country: United States | Language: English, Spanish

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | Relive the biggest moments in movie history with Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking, Academy Award-winning adventure, based on the novels by Michael Crichton and featuring an epic score from legendary composer John Williams. | Country: United States | Language: English, Spanish

  1. 1:15 pm
  2. 4:30 pm

Beat the Heat: Matilda (1996)

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | In this beloved Roald Dahl film adaptation, a girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to deal with her crude, distant family and free her kind teacher from their sadistic headmistress. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | In this beloved Roald Dahl film adaptation, a girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to deal with her crude, distant family and free her kind teacher from their sadistic headmistress. | Country: United States | Language: English

  1. 1:30 pm
  2. 4:00 pm

Beat the Heat: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | Remember her. George Miller’s exhilarating follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) explores the origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and teamup with Mad Max. | Country: Australia | Language: English

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | Remember her. George Miller’s exhilarating follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) explores the origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and teamup with Mad Max. | Country: Australia | Language: English

  1. 1:45 pm
  2. 5:00 pm

Beat the Heat: Shrek (2001)

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | Loosely based on the children’s book, the groundbreaking family classic wowed critics and audiences alike, and even competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2001. In the film, a mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess in order to get his land back. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | Loosely based on the children’s book, the groundbreaking family classic wowed critics and audiences alike, and even competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2001. In the film, a mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess in order to get his land back. | Country: United States | Language: English

  1. 2:00 pm Sold Out
  2. 5:15 pm Sold Out

Beat the Heat: The Fall Guy (2024)

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | World Premiere at SXSW Film Festival. A retired stuntman is drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie, which is being directed by his ex, goes missing. | Country: United State | Language: English

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | World Premiere at SXSW Film Festival. A retired stuntman is drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie, which is being directed by his ex, goes missing. | Country: United State | Language: English

  1. 2:15 pm
  2. 5:30 pm Sold Out

Beat the Heat: The Grab (2024)

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | From the director of Blackfish (2013), a revealing new documentary out of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert land grabs by some of the world’s most powerful countries. | Country: United States | Language: English, Russian, Ukrainian

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | From the director of Blackfish (2013), a revealing new documentary out of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert land grabs by some of the world’s most powerful countries. | Country: United States | Language: English, Russian, Ukrainian

  1. 2:30 pm Sold Out

Beat the Heat: Tuesday (2024)

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | World Premiere, 2023 Telluride Film Festival. A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird. | Country: United States, United Kingdom | Language: English

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | World Premiere, 2023 Telluride Film Festival. A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird. | Country: United States, United Kingdom | Language: English

  1. 2:45 pm
  2. 5:45 pm

Beat the Heat: Resistance: They Fought Back

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Discover the largely unknown and incredibly courageous story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. | Country: Poland | Language: Polish, Latvian, English, Hebrew, Lithuanian

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Discover the largely unknown and incredibly courageous story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. | Country: Poland | Language: Polish, Latvian, English, Hebrew, Lithuanian

  1. 5:30 pm

Beat the Heat: The Right to Read (2024)

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | The greatest civil rights issue of our time. The Right to Read shares the stories of an activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented in partnership with Columbus City Council, all tickets to this screening are free and include a complimentary popcorn and soda. | The greatest civil rights issue of our time. The Right to Read shares the stories of an activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read. | Country: United States | Language: English

  1. 6:00 pm

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2024. In this surreal horror from A24 Films and the writer-director of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021), two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show until it is mysteriously cancelled. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2024. In this surreal horror from A24 Films and the writer-director of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021), two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show until it is mysteriously cancelled. | Country: United States | Language: English

  1. 6:30 pm
  2. 9:00 pm

Flipside (2024)

From the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, a comical attempt to save a New Jersey record store and confront a mid-life crisis. | Country: United States | Language: English

From the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, a comical attempt to save a New Jersey record store and confront a mid-life crisis. | Country: United States | Language: English

  1. 7:45 pm

Tuesday (2024)

World Premiere, 2023 Telluride Film Festival. A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird. | Country: United States, United Kingdom | Language: English

World Premiere, 2023 Telluride Film Festival. A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird. | Country: United States, United Kingdom | Language: English

  1. 7:45 pm
  2. 8:45 pm
  1. 8:00 pm

Run Lola Run (1998) 25th Anniversary Screenings

Sundance Audience Award winner. Every second of every day you’re faced with a decision that can change your life. After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmark. | Country: Germany | Language: German, English, Japanese

Sundance Audience Award winner. Every second of every day you’re faced with a decision that can change your life. After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmark. | Country: Germany | Language: German, English, Japanese

  1. 8:15 pm

I Used to Be Funny (2024)

World Premiere at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival. Writer-director Ally Pankiw’s debut feature is dark dramedy following an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, as she decides whether or not to join the search for a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.

World Premiere at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival. Writer-director Ally Pankiw’s debut feature is dark dramedy following an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, as she decides whether or not to join the search for a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.

  1. 8:30 pm

Cult 101: Hollywood 90028 (1973) 4K Restoration

A gruesome new 4K restoration slated to play at Sitges Film Festival this October. A young photographer travels to Hollywood hoping to make it as a cameraman in the movie business, but can only find jobs shooting porn “loops” for a sleazy producer. Depressed and increasingly delusional, he begins to take out his frustrations on pretty young women he meets—by strangling them. | Country: United States | Language: English

A gruesome new 4K restoration slated to play at Sitges Film Festival this October. A young photographer travels to Hollywood hoping to make it as a cameraman in the movie business, but can only find jobs shooting porn “loops” for a sleazy producer. Depressed and increasingly delusional, he begins to take out his frustrations on pretty young women he meets—by strangling them. | Country: United States | Language: English

  1. 8:30 pm

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