What’s Playing

ETERNITY

December 26-29
Rated PG-13 | 112 min

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with, and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.

Sentimental Value

January 2-5
Rated R | 133 min

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.

Father Mother Sister Brother

January 9-12
Rated R | 110 Min

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other. Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country.

LOCAL FILM
My Only Friend’s a Corpse

January 14 | 6 PM

From Different Day Pictures and Key Tawn Toothman comes a twisted new journey through the heartland of horror. A corpse and his new friend Danny set out across the Midwest on an unholy mission… to kill God.
Featuring Jack Bayless in his directorial debut, My Only Friend’s a Corpse is a darkly comic, existential road movie about death, devotion, and the absurdity of existence.

Discussion with filmmaker Key Tawn Toothman following the film!

WEDEL FINANCIAL GROUP PRESENT’S

Throwback Thursday:
Minority Report (2002)

January 15 | 6pm
This film is in collaboration with our upcoming exhibition, Tell me what you think of me

Based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, "Minority Report" is an action-detective thriller set in Washington D.C. in 2054, where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime. Tom Cruise plays the head of this Precrime unit and is himself accused of the future murder of a man he hasn't even met.

The Choral

January 16-19
Rated R | 113 Min

As war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire has lost most of its men to the army. The Choral's ambitious committee, determined to press ahead, decides to recruit local young males to swell their ranks. They must also engage a new chorus master, and despite their suspicions that he has something to hide, their best bet seems to be Dr. Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) -- driven, uncompromising, and recently returned from a career in Germany. As conscription papers start to arrive, the whole community discovers that the best response to the chaos that is laying waste to their lives is to make music together.

Reel Film Fans

Donnie Darko

January 22 | 6 PM | FREE

Donnie Darko is a disturbed adolescent from a semi-functional, upper-middle class family, gifted with a sharp intellect and vivid imagination – but he’s also a bit weird. Donnie’s off his medication and when his boredom is obliterated by a falling airline engine, he becomes increasingly delusional and convinced the world will end in 28 days. Aided by an imaginary friend, he embarks on an increasingly crazed series of actions, which horrify his teachers, scare his parents and amaze his friends.

Hamnet

January 23-26
Rated PG-13 | 125 MIN

William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, celebrate the birth of their son, Hamnet. However, when tragedy strikes and Hamnet dies at a young age, it inspires Shakespeare to write his timeless masterpiece "Hamlet."

Science on Screen Is back!
Science on Trial: DNA, Truth, and the Modern Jury

12 Angry Men (1957)

January 27 | 6 PM | $5 GA, free with a student ID

Join us for 12 Angry Men—a gripping look at justice, prejudice, and persuasion in the jury room—and stay for a powerful discussion on DNA forensics, lie detection, and the evolving role of science in the courtroom.

What has changed since the 1950s? What hasn’t? And what happens when hard science meets human bias?

Synopsis: A gripping courtroom drama in which one juror convinces eleven others to reexamine the evidence in a murder trial, raising questions about justice, bias, and reasonable doubt.

Don’t miss Theatre Salina’s 12 Angry Men running Thursdays – Sundays, January 9-25, 2026.