After years of slapdash sequels, the Camp Miasma franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director (Hannah Einbinder) for resurrection. But when she visits the original’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery (Gillian Anderson), the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

As Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Capt. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) monitor trainees at Starfleet Academy, another vessel from the United Federation of Planets is about to try out the planet-creating Genesis Device in a seemingly deserted portion of space. In the process, two of Kirk's officers are captured by Khan (Ricardo Montalban), an enemy Kirk thought he'd never see again. Once more, Kirk takes the Enterprise's helm, where he meets Khan's ship in an intergalactic showdown.

Two rock-bottom drivers (Dave Franco & O'Shea Jackson Jr) transport a wealthy teen (Mason Thames) to rehab, but their simple job spirals into a chaotic journey of drugs, danger, and crime as their passenger derails their plans.

On Sunday, September 6 Greg Sestero will host and introduce both a 6pm screening of THE ROOM and an 8:30pm screening of Wiseau’s 2023 followup BIG SHARK, a man vs. nature thriller that oh-so-improbably manages to recapture THE ROOM’s naive magic two decades later.

Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) is a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa (Juliette Danielle). One day, inexplicably, she gets bored of him and decides to seduce Johnny's best friend Mark (Greg Sestero). From there, nothing will be the same again.

Three firefighters (Isaiah LaBorde, Mark Valeriano and Tommy Wiseau) must save New Orleans from a gigantic shark. Can New Orleans survive?

On Monday, September 7 Greg will stick around during our 6:30pm screening of THE ROOM to offer scene-specific commentary throughout the film, after which (9pm) he’ll be treating us to a hush-hush look at a long-gestating project that’s guaranteed to make for a memorable pairing.

Join us as we welcome Greg Sestero back to Central Cinema for a special live commentary presentation of Tommy Wiseau's cult masterpiece!

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Knoxville Poetry Slam is a semi-monthly live poetry open mic presented by Lane Shuler and Jonathan "Courageous" Clark, who travel the country performing as I.N.K. Spoken Word.

College student Beca (Anna Kendrick) knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca finds that the only thing they have in common is how well they sing together. She takes the women of the group out of their comfort zone of traditional arrangements and into a world of amazing harmonic combinations in a fight to the top of college music competitions.

Through archival footage, surreal animation, puppetry reenactments, and interviews with people like Richard Linklater, Dean Ween, Henry Rollins, Flea, Dave Grohl, Eric André, Ian MacKaye, and Steve Albini, BUTTHOLE SURFERS: THE HOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUTT unfolds in the anarchic spirit of the legendary band.

Gen. Bison (Raul Julia), the evil dictator of Shadaloo, captures a busload of relief workers and holds them for ransom. Col. Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme) leads an international strike force to invade Shadaloo and rescue the hostages.

Central Cinema is excited to partner with Chroma for a night of avant-garde shorts presented on 16mm film, live scored by The Pretentious Ambient Orchestra.

Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theater. On the trip, he finds long abandoned and forgotten cinemas; movie houses that have fallen into disrepair; theaters recently closed, theaters struggling to hold on, and theaters that—thanks to their thoughtful caretakers—are not only surviving but thriving.

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star (Gene Kelly) falls for a chorus girl (Debbie Reynolds) just as he and his paranoid screen partner (Cyd Charisse) struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

Join the Comedy Sphere at Central Cinema for Box Office Comedy, a stand-up comedy showcase that brings big laughs to the big screen. We're turning the theater into a comedy club for the night with a lineup of hilarious comedians guaranteed to leave you laughing long after the credits roll.

GODZILLA (a.k.a. GOJIRA) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning almost thirty sequels. (Janus Films)

Diving into delirious realms of imagination, this second film of the Godzilla franchise’s 1980s resurgence showcased the towering beast for a new generation of fans. This time, Godzilla’s foe is one of the series’ most wondrously strange kaiju creations: Biollante—a mutant plant genetically engineered from the cells of a rose, a renegade scientist’s dead daughter, and Godzilla itself. With a wild plot encompassing spies, psychic children, and bonkers biotechnology—and some of the coolest special effects in the history of Japanese cinema—GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE stands as a high point in the ever-evolving mythology of the King of the Monsters. (Janus Films)

Shlock filmmaker Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) oversees the premiere of his gimmicky new horror movie in coastal Florida at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In an iconic Oscar-nominated performance, Peter O’ Toole (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA) is film director Eli Cross: a megalomaniacal madman commanding a circus of a production where paranoid young Vietnam vet Steve Railsback (LIFEFORCE) finds himself *maybe* replacing a dead stunt man, *possibly* falling for leading lady Barbara Hershey (BEACHES) and discovering that love, death and the mayhem of moviemaking are the wildest illusions of all. (AGFA)

A failed screenwriter (William Holden) falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star (Gloria Swanson).

Join us for just $5 as we continue our collaboration with UT's Denbo Center, pursuing themes of identity and place with Abbas Kiarostami's mold-breaking blend of narrative and nonfiction. The screening will be introduced by Mehrenegar Rostami from UT's Natalie L. Haslam College of Music, with a discussion to follow.

Join us for our FREE monthly live standup engagement, showcasing the best comics from Knoxville and elsewhere, courtesy of our friends at Tiny Stage Comedy!