West Side Story (2021)
Produced and directed by legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner, WEST SIDE STORY tells th... Read more
The Princess Bride
Bring your Valentine to the Music Box for THE PRINCESS BRIDE, the fairy tale that puts the “comedy” in “romantic comedy.” Fun for all ages, this inter... Read more
Lady Windermere's Fan
"Playing with words is fascinating to the writer and afterward to the reader, but on the screen it is quite impossible. Would much charm remain to lon... Read more
Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah blah blah.
By Design
Upon seeing a gorgeous chair in a showroom, Camille (Juliette Lewis) realizes that she truly envies the life of this perfect piece of furniture. If on... Read more
Valentine
“Everything’s fine, it’s just that men suck.” Paige, Kate, Shelley, Lily, and Dorothy all remained quasi-good friends ever since middle school, but no... Read more
Joe Dirt
David Spade reinvents himself as the plucky, freewheelin’, mullet-sportin’ janitor of the road, JOE DIRT. This indelible late night comedy follows gun... Read more
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Playing off the multiverse fanaticism and superhero craze prominent in today’s pop culture, SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE burst onto the scene to... Read more
Brothers from Another Planet
We’re taking a fantasy deep dive this February with some of cinema’s most out-of-this world Black protagonists. Take a spin through the Spider-verse w... Read more
Written on the Wind
Perhaps the most anxious and lurid of Sirk's incredible run of melodramas for Universal-International, Written on the Wind is a soap opera laid in a T... Read more
Strange and Found
Chicago VHS all-stars, Joe Pickett (Found Footage Fest) and Scott Miller (Strange Tapes Zine) have a combined VHS collection of 15,000 tapes and will... Read more
White Chicks
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans), accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to esc... Read more
Blade
Wesley Snipes stars as the tortured soul Blade – half man, half immortal. Blade sharpens his lethal skills under the guidance of Whistler (Kris Kristo... Read more
The Furies
Larger-than-life cattle baron T. C. Jeffords (Walter Huston, in his final role) is a restless egotist who speaks every word as though the world is lis... Read more
Space is the Place
Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film version of his concept album. It’s a wild, kaleidosco... Read more
Safe
Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness.... Read more
Life within the Lens
Join us this Black History Month for the 7th iteration of “Life Within the Lens”, our short film program featuring some of the city’s most talented Bl... Read more
Union Pacific
Union Pacific begins with President Lincoln’s signing of the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862, firing the starting gun of the sprint pitting the Union Pac... Read more
The Night Walker
DO YOU DREAM OF SEX? DO YOU DREAM OF VIOLENCE? DO YOU DREAM OF MURDER? If you do, do not see The Night Walker!Fresh off the smashing success of 1964’s... Read more
The Brother From Another Planet
He arrives at Ellis Island like the immigrants in the late-19th and early-20th century, but our newcomer, played by Joe Morton, is not from another co... Read more
Stella Dallas
Melodrama has rarely been so potent as it is in the final film of our Barbara Stanwyck series, King Vidor’s Stella Dallas. In the title role, Stanwyck... Read more
Starman (2025)
Legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author, Gentry Lee, has spent a lifetime seeking an answer to the ultimate cosmic qu... Read more
Battleship Potemkin
"I am a civil engineer and a mathematician … I approach the making of a motion picture in much the same way as I would the equipment of a poultry farm... Read more
Andre is an Idiot
Through comedic vérité storytelling and fantastical stop-motion interludes, André Ricciardi sets out to chronicle his fi nal journey after receiving a... Read more
Filth and Freedom: Selections from the Vinegar Syndrome Film Archive
In the late aughts, young Chicagoan and Odd Obsession video counter clerk Joe Rubin began amassing a huge collection of vintage adult films on 16mm an... Read more
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets—but especially Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television... Read more
Twin Peaks TV Night with Sheryl Lee
Music Box Theatre & The Horror House proudly present an evening celebrating the inimitable work of David Lynch and his deeply influential cultural tou... Read more
Reds
"The curious notion that Hollywood or its European counterparts could produce a truly and unequivocally progressive spectacle…continues to be as much... Read more
Real Life
"I shouldn't be allowed to do this! Why did I pick reality? I don't know anything about it!" Albert Brooks, one of cinema's greatest comic minds and d... Read more