Awesome movies - some well-known, others less so -from silent classics to new releases shown every Thursday at 2:30 in the 3rd floor Community Meeting Room at Central. We have something for everyone!
Super Cinema, February 2025
In Celebration of Black History Month,
Films Based in African or African American Culture
Thursday, February 6 Get Out 2017 / 104 min. / R
Jordan Peele wrote and directed this psychological horror film, which finds photographer Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) taking a terrible trip to visit his white girlfriend’s family in upstate New York.
Thursday, February 13 Fruitvale Station 2013 / 85 min. / R
On the first day of 2009, after visiting his daughter and celebrating New Years’ Eve the day before, 22-year-old Black father Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan) is gunned down on the cold concrete of an Oakland, California BART platform. It’s our story. First-time director Ryan Coogler also wrote the script. Octavia Spencer as Grant’s mother.
Thursday February 20 No movie this week - see you next week
Thursday, February 27 Black Panther 2018 / 134 min. / PG-13
In a technologically advanced African nation known as Wakanda, the king dies. The king’s son, T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), or Black Panther, returns to face a challenge from a dissident. This film has earned about a half billion dollars worldwide, making it one of Marvel’s most successful superhero movies ever.
Super Cinema, March 2025
Women as Heroes
Thursday, March 6 Alien 1979 / 117 min. / R
When a commercial starship investigates a distress call from an alien, unknown ship, inside it they discover a nest of eggs, from which an organism attaches itself to one of the investigating crew members. Back on its own ship, the crew experiences stark terror as the alien stalks them. Sigourney Weaver plays Ripley, the heroic character who gets what’s going on, and acts. Roger Ebert says ‘Alien’ has been called the most influential of modern action pictures, and so it is.”
Thursday, March 13 His Girl Friday 1940 / 92 min. / Approved
Howard Hawks directs this one, perhaps the greatest of all screwball comedies. Cary Grant is at the peak of his acting career playing Walter Burns, the swaggering, unprincipled editor of the Chicago Morning Post. Walter desperately wants to win back Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), his ex-wife and former ace reporter. She is a most formidable, fast-talking, wisecracking woman who’s planning to leave town with her fiance, a very dull guy (Ralph Bellamy). What??? The rest of the plot is fun but not important. It goes by quickly, which is just what Hawks wanted it to do.
Thursday, March 20 Miracle Worker 1962 / 106 min. / NR
When a childhood disease leaves Helen Keller (Patty Duke) deaf, blind and mute, her parents seek out a teacher to help her. They find Anne Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), a graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind, and bring her to their home. Skilled and forceful, funny and loving, Sullivan matches Helen’s willfulness. Bancroft and Patty Duke each won an Academy Award for her performance.
Thursday, March 27 Erin Brockovich 2000 / 131 min. / R
Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) demands a job at the law office of Ed Masry (Albert Finney), who has lost a personal injury suit on Brockovich’s behalf because of her outrageous behavior in court. Ed fires her but takes her back to work on a case against PG&E for knowingly allowing a deadly chemical, hexavalent chromium, to poison the groundwater in Hinkley, CA, resulting in dozens of cancer diagnoses. Due mainly to Brockovich’s work and the rapport she builds with a few hundred plaintiffs, Masry brings a huge law suit against PG&E. Watch Brockovitch go!
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Movies, Music & Performance |
