Dinkytown has a new physical temple to celluloid. Step through the doors at 1312 4th Street SE and you aren’t just walking into a standard record and movie shop—you’re stepping into an active archive. Beneath exposed industrial ceilings and bright yellow structural beams, towering walls of media…

Fifty years of aquatic thrillers have taught audiences to fear what lurks beneath the boat, but Whalefall finds its horror inside the beast itself. Directed by Brian Duffield and adapted from the novel of the same name together with its author, Daniel Kraus, the film plunges a diver straight into the…

Long before streaming algorithms began feeding us movies through our phone screens, towns gathered at the local cinema. You pushed through the heavy doors, caught the scent of real butter in the lobby, and sat in the dark with a roomful of neighbors to experience the exact same story at the exact same…

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For the first show of its 2026–2027 season, the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis is currently staging Pinocchio, based on Carlo Collodi’s classic story about the puppet who becomes a real boy. This version of the narrative, adapted and directed by Greg Banks, unfolds through the framing…