This Week at The Broad: Wakanda Forever

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So how was your weekend? Saw anything good? We ended up experiencing the busiest February weekend in our history with a little movie you may have heard of called BLACK PANTHER. Between Thursday and Sunday we had 35 straight sold out screenings breaking all sorts of box office records. Demand for tickets is still outpacing anything we have ever shown at The Broad, so we have already put tickets on sale for next week on two of our four screens.

This Week at The Broad: Your Guide to The Oscars

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This morning the staff at The Broad woke up to a startling discovery. The entire lineup of films currently playing at the theater can now be called Oscar nominated films. Over the past twelve months we have played seven of the nine films nominated for Best Picture with four of those being played at this very moment. We even ended up playing one of the animated shorts with our free screening of REVOLTING RHYMES late last year. So with our entire lineup being nominated we felt it best to not change things around too much. This next week you can catch CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, THE POST, THE SHAPE OF WATER, I, TONYA, and LADY BIRD just in time to start handicapping your favorites for the awards on March 4th (which just happens to be our 2nd birthday).

This Week at The Broad: Globe Winners Posted

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The Hollywood Foreign Press has spoken: The Broad Theater shows the best films. Four of our pictures have 9 awards between them. THE POST opens this week, and while it was shut out at the Globes for its 6 nominations, any film combining the talent of Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep is worth the price of admission. This is the true story of The Washington Post newspaper’s struggle to publish the Pentagon Papers, which ultimately blew the lid off the government’s deception surrounding the Vietnam War. 
THE SHAPE OF WATER (Best Director – Guillermo del Toro, Best Original Score – Alexandre Desplat) I, TONYA (Best Supporting Actress – Allison Janney) LADY BIRD (Best Actress Musical or Comedy – Saoirse Ronan) and THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Best Picture Drama, Best Actress Drama – Frances McDormand, Best Supporting Actor – Sam Rockwell, Best Screenplay – Martin McDonagh) continue their run. BYOB(aby) will be showing I, TONYA this week.

This Week at The Broad: Icy Conditions Ahead

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We feel it, too. It’s COLD outside. The new year has brought in some frigid air, so we’ve turned on the heater to bring you the warm fuzzies while you enjoy our lineup this week. Coincidentally enough, this week’s new release takes place in the frigid world of figure skating, so lace up your skates and let’s dig into the newsletter. I, TONYA is not your ordinary biopic.

This Week at The Broad: Looking Back on 2017

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First things first, if you got a Broad Theater gift card in your stocking this week then congrats on being given the gift of cinema! Your new card never expires and can be used for anything at the theater from tickets to cocktails to some of our awesome new food items available every weekend. As we look back on this past year, we’d like to focus on the things that made us happy. Nothing of course makes us happy more than good movies and we think we ended up showing a healthy number of them. From A QUIET PASSION to WONDER WOMAN, we stuck to our guns in giving you a eclectic mix of movies in all shapes, sizes, and budgets.

This Week at The Broad: It’s beginning to look a lot like Oscars

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It’s the newsletter before Christmas and all through The Broad, new features are screening, with a couple quite odd. Our hot-pink tree is covered with light, and no matter what, this week will delight. We’ve got indie pleasures from across the globe, and a visual feast from a filmmaker in vogue. The rest of this newsletter will not be in rhyme, but continue reading and you’re sure to have a good time. 
THE SQUARE has been one of the most requested indie titles this year from all of our guests, and we’ve been trying all winter to squeeze it into a very packed schedule.

This Week at The Broad: It is a period of Civil War…

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First, a confession: the writer of this weekly newsletter is huge Star Wars fan. Two years ago, prior to the opening of our theater, he spent 20 hours at the multiplex watching all seven films in a row and swore that Episode 8 would play at The Broad where he would watch it then. That promise is fulfilled this Thursday as we open our doors for STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI. Continuing the saga from where THE FORCE AWAKENS left off, this newest installment has got all the characters you know and love (minus Han, but plus Porgs!) in a darker tale that goes into the mystery of what Luke Skywalker has been up to since the destruction of the second Death Star all the way back in 1983 (or 4 ABY for those of you keeping track of canon). For those lucky enough to have tickets for opening night, be sure to dress up in your best Star Wars costume as we will have a costume contest with winners getting prizes from ourselves as well as our friends from the Krewe Of Chewbacchus.

This Week at The Broad: Local Chalmette Boy Makes Good

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This weekend we picked up our trademarked hot pink Christmas tree and plopped it down in the lobby with merriment and good cheer. The holiday season is in full swing and as the number of shopping days dwindle down, the number of Oscar contenders and blockbusters go up. We’ve got one big movie opening this weekend with another movie you might have heard of coming up next Thursday. Oh hai everyone! THE DISASTER ARTIST is the hilariously brilliant look at the making of one of the best worst movies of all time THE ROOM. James Franco directed and stars as the star and director of the picture Tommy Wiseau (who we here is from round these parts but don’t necessarily believe).

This Week at The Broad: Returning favorites and new adventures

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One of the things we take pride in at The Broad is keeping a fresh supply of new movies rolling in each and every week. Some weeks, however, we are so thrilled with our offerings that it makes the best sense to keep on keeping on with our lineup as is. This Week at The Broad is all about enjoying the things in life we already have. This Thursday we kick off one of the most fun and unusual annual events we host here. HUMP! is a film festival celebrating sexuality with a curated selection of homemade videos from around the world featuring people who might not be porn stars, but want to show everyone what they think is sexy. This special event was packed last year and for good reason: it’s an absolute blast.

This Week at The Broad: A Motherhood Nightmare Before Christmas

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We hope you had a Happy Halloween! While you gorge yourself on fun-sized candy and think back on your sexy platypus costume, we have been working hard on a crazy new lineup of films for this week. Keep on reading as we explore brave new worlds on the sugar-rush edition of our newsletter. THOR: RAGNAROK is the latest Marvel spectacular spectacular to grace our screens, and it comes from director Taika Waititi, who also directed one of our favorite films to have played here, Hunt For The Wilderpeople. This brightly-colored adventure really amps up the comedy, which hasn’t always been the case for the Thor franchise.