The Academy Theater

The Academy Theater Beautifully restored movie theater featuring current, classic and indie films, beer & wine, Flying Pie pizza, Miyamoto sushi and $9/$6.50 tickets.
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Coming soon to the Academy Theater 💙Don’t miss your chance to see these Revival Films on the Big Screen. Tickets and sho...
09/06/2026

Coming soon to the Academy Theater 💙

Don’t miss your chance to see these Revival Films on the Big Screen. Tickets and showtimes now available on our website—link in bio! 🎟️✨

**Starts Friday, September 18th**The beloved Studio Ghibli adventure PONYO (2008) swims onto our Big Screen! Hayao Miyaz...
09/05/2026

**Starts Friday, September 18th**

The beloved Studio Ghibli adventure PONYO (2008) swims onto our Big Screen! Hayao Miyazaki’s dazzling seaside fairytale follows a curious little fish who dreams of becoming human, setting off a magical adventure overflowing with friendship, wonder, and some seriously spectacular waves. All showtimes are up on our website now!

Back of the box:
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.

09/04/2026

**Starts Today Friday, September 4th**

The effortlessly sleek French New Wave classic BREATHLESS (1960) breezes onto our Big Screen this September! Jean-Luc Godard’s stylish, rule-breaking romance follows a reckless young criminal and the American woman caught in his orbit through the streets of Paris. Don’t miss the film that helped change cinema forever. All showtimes are up on our website now!

Back of the box:
There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinĂŠma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same.

09/03/2026

**Starts Tomorrow Friday, September 4th**

Our annual September Thrillers Series starts tomorrow!

Gus Van Sant’s wickedly funny satire TO DIE FOR (1995) hits our Big Screen this September! Nicole Kidman is unforgettable as Suzanne Stone, an aspiring TV personality whose hunger for fame knows absolutely no limits. Dark yet stylish, don’t miss this thriller about ambition, obsession, and the pursuit of celebrity. All showtimes are up on our website now!

Back of the box:
The all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. In a career breakthrough, Nicole Kidman delivers a diabolical deconstruction of the girl next door as a local TV weather reporter whose perfectly perky facade belies a murderous heart, as her ruthless pursuit of fame ensnares three disaffected teens in a sordid, tabloid-ready scandal. Deftly deploying shifting perspectives, faux-documentary interviews, and a supporting cast featuring Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, and Casey Affleck, director Gus Van Sant adds provocative layers of meaning to this darkly funny examination of suburban sociopathy.

09/01/2026

**Starts Friday September 18th**

Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of THE CABLE GUY (1996) this September at the Academy! Don’t miss this 90s comedy romp starring Jim Carey & Matthew Broderick big loud and with a crowd!

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On Tuesday 9/22, get there early because local vendor Pictureshow Collections is curating a special pre-show market from 5:30 – 7:00 pm!! Packed with awesome vendors, featuring VHS tapes, VCRs, Blu-rays, shirts, jewelry, movie posters and more, we’ll also be raffling off copies of THE CABLE GUY on Blu-ray, VHS and LaserDisc before the movie begins! More info available on our website, link in bio.

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Back of the Box:
Jim Carrey is Chip Douglas, cable installer. Raised on television sitcoms, he wants life to look just like My Three Sons. And when he meets single guy Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick), he sees his chance for some serious male bonding. But Chip’s idea of friendship - which includes physical assault, a game of ‘Porno Password’ and a medieval joust - may be hazardous to Steven’s health. In Chip’s own immortal words, “I can be your best friend...or your worst enemy.”

**Starts Friday, September 11th**The 2nd film in our September Thrillers series is ready to blow your mind. David Cronen...
08/31/2026

**Starts Friday, September 11th**

The 2nd film in our September Thrillers series is ready to blow your mind. David Cronenberg’s SCANNERS (1981) hits our Big Screen!! Starring Michael Ironside (TOTAL RECALL, FREE W***Y) as the terrifying Darryl Revok. SCANNERS is a head-exploding dose of psychic warfare, body horror, and pure Cronenberg weirdness. Come lose your mind with us!

Back of the box:
With Scanners, David Cronenberg plunges us into one of his most terrifying and thrilling sci-fi worlds. After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them. A trademark Cronenberg combination of the visceral and the cerebral, this phenomenally gruesome and provocative film about the expanses and limits of the human mind was the Canadian director’s breakout hit in the United States.

Coming soon to the Academy 💙Don’t miss these cult classics and beloved favorites on the Big Screen. Tickets and showtime...
08/30/2026

Coming soon to the Academy 💙

Don’t miss these cult classics and beloved favorites on the Big Screen. Tickets and showtimes up on our website—link in bio! 🎬

**Starts Friday, September 4th**The effortlessly sleek French New Wave classic BREATHLESS (1960) breezes onto our Big Sc...
08/30/2026

**Starts Friday, September 4th**

The effortlessly sleek French New Wave classic BREATHLESS (1960) breezes onto our Big Screen this September! Jean-Luc Godard’s stylish, rule-breaking romance follows a reckless young criminal and the American woman caught in his orbit through the streets of Paris. Don’t miss the film that helped change cinema forever. All showtimes are up on our website now!

Back of the box:
There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinĂŠma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same.

**Starts Friday, September 4th**Gus Van Sant’s wickedly funny satire TO DIE FOR (1995) hits our Big Screen this Septembe...
08/29/2026

**Starts Friday, September 4th**

Gus Van Sant’s wickedly funny satire TO DIE FOR (1995) hits our Big Screen this September! Nicole Kidman is unforgettable as Suzanne Stone, an aspiring TV personality whose hunger for fame knows absolutely no limits. Dark yet stylish, don’t miss this thriller about ambition, obsession, and the pursuit of celebrity. All showtimes are up on our website now!

Back of the box:
The all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. In a career breakthrough, Nicole Kidman delivers a diabolical deconstruction of the girl next door as a local TV weather reporter whose perfectly perky facade belies a murderous heart, as her ruthless pursuit of fame ensnares three disaffected teens in a sordid, tabloid-ready scandal. Deftly deploying shifting perspectives, faux-documentary interviews, and a supporting cast featuring Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, and Casey Affleck, director Gus Van Sant adds provocative layers of meaning to this darkly funny examination of suburban sociopathy.

08/28/2026

**Starts Today Friday, August 28th**

Set sail for adventure with JASON & THE ARGONAUTS (1963)! ⚔️🐉

Ray Harryhausen’s legendary stop-motion creatures come roaring back to life on our Big Screen in this thrilling voyage through ancient myth, packed with monsters, magic, and some of the most iconic effects in fantasy cinema.

Showtimes are up on our website now!

Back of the box:
Fantastic special effects by Ray Harryhausen and exciting mythological adventure makes this a film that is fun for everyone. It’s the story of Jason (Todd Armstrong), a fearless sailor and explorer, who returns to the kingdom of Thessaly after a 20-year voyage to make his rightful claim to the throne. But to do so, Jason must first find the magical Golden Fleece. He selects a crew and with the help of Hera, Queen of the Gods, sets sail in search of the Fleece. Jason and his crew must overcome incredible obstacles including a 100-foot bronze giant, the venomous Hydra – a huge creature with the heads of seven snakes, and a spectacular battle with an army of skeletons.

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