Plot: A manga artist and his friends uncover a plot by his employers at an amusement park to lure monsters to Earth and it’s up to Godzilla to defeat the invaders!

One of the G-Man’s most fun outings, GODZILLA VS GIGAN presents some of the best kaiju action of the Showa era! Screening on ‘REEL’ 16MM FILM!

Jay and Aria are at a low point. Max, Jay's boyfriend and Aria's brother, was brutally murdered by a cult. The hate crime was not taken seriously. Now the duo must travel through rural Australia to kill the demons behind it and avenge Max.

Plot: Derek takes a job at a tech firm, developing an AI pleasure doll. As he explores the boundaries of pain and desire, he confronts profound questions about humanity in an uncertain future.

A triumphant return for Scooter McCrae, and featuring a fearless performance from Yvonne Emilie Thälker, BLACK EYED SUSAN is one of the most thought provoking indie films in recent memory!

The director will join us for a post-screening Q&A via Zoom!

Come out for a FREE screening of the film that led studio director John Brahm to be compared favorably to Hitchcock - and led its brilliant but troubled star to his death. The movie starts at 7pm on April 23, and then stick around afterward as Tyler and Orrin talk about music, the tragic career of Laird Cregar, the collapse of the studio system, and how to use convenient holidays to dispose of your victims' bodies.

When John Jaspers’ girlfriend is brutally murdered, he vows to avenge her any way he can. When the mysterious ‘M’ appears and offers a solution, John signs the deal in blood, transforming him into a vicious demon with violent urges beyond his control. But after learning of M’s plan to unleash Hell on Earth, John uses this curse to fight back.

SID 6.7 is a program modeled after history’s most vicious serial killers, used in police training. When he escapes his digital chains, there’s only one man who can stop him.

In this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other’s infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, they realize they may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following each other’s lead. Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth is a warm but unsparing comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistible.

Slacker actress Jane (Anna Faris, in one of her finest comedic performances), is having a bad day that keeps getting worse. After a feasting on some magic cupcakes left unattended by her psycho roommate. Jane's plan for the day sprials out of control as she must face baking mishaps, creepy friends, casting directors, drug dealers, and an original copy of Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto. Full of the smart comedy even when it's really stupid. SMILEY FACE is a stoner noir of epic proportions and Gregg Araki's most political film since DOOM GENERATION.

Stray Cat Film Center and BLK+BRWN are joining forces to once again screen an underratred slice of black cinema!

Millions in cash has been stolen by a drug lord, and it’s up to a smooth talking private detective (dir: Keenen Ivory Wayans) to track it down! A LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME is a shockingly fun entry in the 90s black film canon and one of the most underrated action films from the genre’s bombastic heyday!

About Elly is a suspenseful gem, compared to L’Avventura for its unique approach to tension, keeping viewers on edge throughout.

It’s Manchester, 1976. Local TV news reporter Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) is one of forty-two people to witness “the gig that changed the world”, the life-changing Sex Pistols concert that drove Wilson and friends to create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club. Blending real and staged concert footage, comedic asides, and unreliable narration, this fictionalized account of a very real musical revolution chronicles the rise and fall of Joy Division (and beginning of New Order), the dysfunction of Happy Mondays, and the birth of rave culture in the UK.

This Month: Dust off your VCR for night of Hair Metal Lizards, Flying Lawnmowers and the perils of Shrek flavored crack. That’s a slither of sights on display as Andrew presents a few of his favorite absurdly strange shot-on-VHS shorts from current Underground filmmakers including the Kansas City premier of a movie Andrew watched in a tent in an empty parking lot: SHREK CRACK.

Also filmmaker Janice.Click will be here with some dvds and VHS tapes for everyone!

Plus: Dominatrixes sing, Jean-Luc Godard sells Nikes, and much more!

As ancient parasites slowly take over her town, a young trans filmmaker and her friends realize they are the only ones who can stop them.

Manakamana turns a Nepalese cable car ride into a radical act of observation, where time bends and the ordinary becomes mesmerizing.

Plot: Based on Terry McMillan's novel, this film follows four very different African-American women and their relationships with men.

Underrated in its original release, WAITING TO EXHALE is a generously affectionate drama anchored by a beautiful Angela Bassett performance.

An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.

The Gleaners and I is Agnès Varda at her best—an intimate, philosophical look at those who live off what others leave behind.

No, we didn't actually find a surviving copy of Tod Browning's famous lost silent London After Midnight, but we've got the next best thing - his 1935 talkie remake, starring a somnolent Bela Lugosi playing a legally distinct vampire who is definitely not Dracula. Join us for a FREE screening of this delightfully spooky piece of film history on March TK, then stick around afterward as Orrin and Tyler discuss lost films, remakes, what one does with blood once one gets it out of a person, and much more!

Ants get their revenge in PHASE IV (1974) with a post-screening talk by Abigail Cohen of Michigan State Entomology.

Technology and murder collide in this high-charged suspense thriller torn from today’s headlines. Stuck in a go-nowhere marriage, Brad Collins begins having illicit affairs via the internet. Each new, steamy liaison brings him closer and closer to danger because a killer stalks the Net and has set a target for the oblivious Collins. It all explodes when he discovers his wife murdered, and he’s fingered for the crime.

Plot: When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.

Stanley Kubrick’s interstellar masterpiece screens for the first time at Stray Cat on a RARE 16MM CINEMASCOPE PRINT!

He Who Gets Slapped (1924) is the story of a scientist whose happiness is destroyed by a friend who steals not only his wife but also the results of his life’s research. The scientist turns bitter and, in desperation, joins a circus as a clown whose popular act is based on being repeatedly slapped. The clown, now known only as “He” (even his identity has been taken), is slapped whenever he attempts to speak and, with each slap, relives his personal and professional humiliation. Experience the magic of a modern live score by Gavin Neves to this incredibly moving and visually stunning silent film!

Complementary bombshells Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe wreak havoc on the male libido in this classic Howard Hawks farce of two nightclub singers set loose onboard a Paris-bound luxury liner. Jane and Marilyn show their gift for flawless comic timing in every scene – and their musical duets together, including “Two Little Girls From Little Rock” and “Bye Bye Baby,” are simply priceless.

Michael Schaack’s brilliant and surprisingly graphic animated feature about a grisly series of unsolved murders among a group of domestic cats. (“Felidae” is the scientific name for cats.) A combination feline detective story, Gothic mystery and occult horror, FELIDAE follows green-eyed protagonist Francis and his grizzled, one-eyed companion Blaubart as they unravel the killings stretching back decades, involving death cults, genetic experimentation and a mysterious martyr religion.

This Month: Buckle up for a demented hayride through the post-WWII era's ocean of American educational films. AGFA's taken the eighteen VHS volumes of Something Weird Video's "Health & Safety Scare Films" and crunched the most unbelievable / unforgettable / unimaginable moments into a 60-minute transmission from Mars. This is your brain on drugs...any questions?

A hybrid documentary centering stories from eight trans and postgender folks who cultivated community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst moments of connection and isolation, these participants reveal a deepening awareness of gender, their bodies, trans and queer community, racial and disability justice during this pandemic. Interlaced between documentary portraits are reenactments with social actors who re-live core Covid memories. These vignettes filmed as memories integrate archival material documenting what so many experienced.

Goodbye, Dragon Inn is a hypnotic farewell to a grand old cinema, immersing you in its fading world until you can almost feel it around you.

A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, The Color of Pomegranates revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative.