Thursday
Man on the Flying Trapeze (7:00p — Chazen Art Museum)
W.C. Fields stars, writes, and co-directs in this 1935 comedy that puts Fields’ “memory expert” through the ringer as he tells a fib to catch a wrestling match. Preceded by Dick Lundy’s short film, The Bandmaster. FREE.
RiffTrax Live presents: Sharknado (7:00p — Point, Eastgate)
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 comedians are back for another exclusive commentary and more blood than was ever spilled in SyFy’s D-movie schlockfest. Fish in a barrel.
“Rise to the Challenge” Rise of the Planet of the Apes/Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (7:00p — AMC Star, Point, Eastgate)
The double bill offers an earlier glimpse than Sundance’s 10:00p “Sneak peek” tonight.
Transformers: Age of Extinction + 22 Jump Street (8:00p — Highway 18 Drive-In; 8:20p — Sky-Vu Drive-In)
(All times listed are for box office openings.)
All freakin’ weekend
Third Person (Sundance)
The writer of Crash continues his obsessions with interlocking “hyperlink” stories with one that follows three separate couples in three separate cities.
Begin Again (Sundance, AMC Star, Point, Eastgate)
Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley star in this musical romance where director John Carney takes the same low-key approach from his breakout hit Once.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Sundance, AMC Star, Point, Eastgate, Stoughton Cinema Cafe)
Following the outbreak of the virus at the end of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn checks in on the aftermath of the plague, where tensions between apes and humans have exploded into all-out war.
Friday
RoboCop (6:00p — Hawthorne Branch Library)
It’s a FREE screening of the remake — as in the RoboCop who threw out the first pitch at a Tigers game.
Transformers: Age of Extinction + 22 Jump Street (6:30p — Highway 18 Drive-In; 7:40p — Sky-Vu Drive-In)
The Book Thief (6:30p — Pinney Branch Library)
FREE.
The Double (7:00p — Union South Marquee)
In Richard Ayoade’s meditation on Dostoyevsky’s novella, the life of Jesse Eisenberg’s sad sack changes irrevocably when he meets his doppelganger. And no, it’s not Michael Cera. The only Madison-area theatrical screening and it’s FREE.
Saturday
Transformers: Age of Extinction + 22 Jump Street (6:30p — Highway 18 Drive-In; 7:40p — Sky-Vu Drive-In)
Sunday
Turbo (10:00a — Point, Eastgate)
$2.
Transformers: Age of Extinction + 22 Jump Street (8:00p — Highway 18 Drive-In; 8:20p — Sky-Vu Drive-In)
Monday
Turbo (10:00a — Point, Eastgate)
$2.
Transformers: Age of Extinction + 22 Jump Street (8:00p — Highway 18 Drive-In; 8:20p — Sky-Vu Drive-In)
Rush Hour (9:00p — Union Terrace)
Everyone knows Rush Hour 2 is the Rush Hour-iest of the Rush Hour films, but the original really cements the chemistry between Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. And hey, having your daughter kidnapped still sounds better than Rush Hour 3. FREE.
RoboCop (9:30p — AMC Star)
$3.
Tuesday
Speciesism, The Movie (5:30p — Lakeview Branch Library)
This FREE documentary begins as an investigation into factory farming and soon turns into the uncovering of a philosophy that defines humans as equals within the animal kingdom.
Transformers: Age of Extinction + 22 Jump Street (8:00p — Highway 18 Drive-In; 8:20p — Sky-Vu Drive-In)
RoboCop (9:30p — AMC Star)
$3.
Wednesday
Turbo (10:00a — Point, Eastgate)
$2.
Pretty Woman (1:40p, 7:05p — Sundance)
Transformers: Age of Extinction + 22 Jump Street (8:00p — Highway 18 Drive-In; 8:20p — Sky-Vu Drive-In)
RoboCop (9:30p — AMC Star)
$3.