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
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
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
Iced
February 20 & 21, bundle up and follow our tracks through the polar vortex to the Music Box Theatre where it's just as cold inside—because we're plung... Read more
2026 Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films
BUTTERFLY (Dir. Florence Miailhe, 15 mins, France)A poignant retelling of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache's life, from his rise to fame to surviving Au... Read more
2026 Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films
BUTCHER’S STAIN (Dir. Meyer Levinson-Blount, 26 mins, Israel)Samir, a Palestinian butcher working at an Israeli supermarket, is accused of tearing dow... 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
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
Frostbiter
February 20 & 21, bundle up and follow our tracks through the polar vortex to the Music Box Theatre where it's just as cold inside—because we're plung... 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
Borderlands
Fleeing the 1980 Civil War in El Salvador, Dora Rodriguez, along with 25 other asylum seekers, were abandoned by their guide in the relentless Sonoran... Read more
2026 Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films
ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS (Dir. Joshua Seftel, 33 mins, USA)In this moving short documentary, a journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bed... 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
Masked and Anonymous
In a fictional America caught up in a civil war that is tearing the nation apart, a benefit concert is being organized. A traveling troubadour named J... Read more
The Book of Paradise Has No Author with Ross Lipman
In this eclectic spin on the concert film, Ross Lipman transforms footage of one of his celebrated live documentary performances into a new video essa... Read more
For Worse
A newly divorced mom attends a wedding with a much younger date. What starts as a fun fling and wild weekend reclaiming her youth leads to something m... Read more
Sirat
A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who... 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
Anything That Moves
An avant-gutter psychedelic dream, ANYTHING THAT MOVES is an erotically charged, blood-soaked thriller set in the sticky corridors of Chicago. Shot on... 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
Banff Mountain Film Festival - Chicago, IL
Join us for the 50th anniversary of the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour in Chicago to celebrate the world’s best mountain films! This y... 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
Sound of Silent Film Festival 2026
ACM’s popular Sound of Silent Film Festival, now in its 21st year, is a unique event featuring new short silent films – spanning comedy, drama, experi... 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