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They made ‘SLC Punk 2’ for some reason and you can see it at The Oriental (but there’s a catch)

January 15, 2016

//Remember SLC Punk? "Kind of, I guess," you say? Hey! It was pretty okay at the time. Who could forget the 1998 cult classic wherein Bob the straight edge guy died, Devon Sawa had a bunch of LSD absorb in...

I saw ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ at the Oriental Theatre at 4:15 a.m. and it was glorious

Matt Wild

December 18, 2015

//Back in October, a galaxy-full of Star Wars fans descended on the Internet, Death-Star-trench-run-style, to buy advance tickets to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I was not among them. Instead, as untold m...

Tommy Wiseau and The Room will return to Oriental Theatre in September

Matt Wild

August 18, 2015

In a world of cynical imitators and cheesy-on-purpose clones (we’re looking at you, Sharknado), The Room remains the gold standard for completely sincere, completely stupefying so-bad-it’s-good cinema. The empt...

I finally saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live cast at the Oriental Theater

Matt Wild

June 11, 2015

Prior to last month, I had seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show only once, when I was 15. My friends and I were gathered in the wood-paneled basement of the only girl who would give us the time of day, watching m...

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