Gateway Film Center
1550 N. HIGH ST.
Contact: 614-247-4433, www.gatewayfilmcenter.org
Admission: $7.50 to $11.50; $6 for screenings before noon and after 11 p.m. daily; $5 on Tuesdays; or as noted
• “Drag Me to Hell” (2009): Sam Raimi directed the story of a loan officer (Alison Lohman) who evicts an elderly woman (Lorna Raver) from her home and finds herself the victim of a curse. The film will be screened using a 35 mm print.
Showtimes: 10 p.m. Thursday, 9:30 p.m. Friday, 9:45 p.m. Saturday
Admission: $12
• “The Neverending Story” (1984): A bullied boy (Barret Oliver) finds solace in the pages of a fantasy book. Gerald Mcraney co-stars.
Showtimes: 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday through July 25
Admission: free for up to four people with a library card
• “The Quiet One” (2019): The documentary examines the 31-year career of Bill Wyman as bassist for the Rolling Stones and his life offstage.
Showtimes: 5 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday, 5:40 p.m. Sunday, 2:40 and 7:40 p.m. Monday, 7:40 p.m. Tuesday and 1:50 and 4:10 p.m. Wednesday
• “Leto” (2019): Director Kirill Serebrennikov examines the burgeoning rock-music scene in Russia in the early 1980s through a love triangle between a Mike, a rock musician; Natasha, his wife; and Viktor, Mike’s protege.
Showtimes: 7:10 p.m. Friday, 4:20 p.m. Saturday, 10:10 p.m. Sunday and 9:50 p.m. Monday through Wednesday
• “Rock ’n’ Roll High School” (1979): After a new principal tries to expel rock music from her school, a high school student (P.J. Soles) enlists the help of the Ramones.
Showtimes: 7:15 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and 5 p.m. Wednesday • “The Crow” (1994): Brandon Lee stars as a murdered man who becomes a zombie to avenge his death. The movie was Lee’s last; he died after being accidentally shot during filming of the movie. Showtimes: 9:50 p.m. Friday, 9:15 p.m. Saturday, 7:45 p.m. Sunday, 9:40 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday
• “Bite Me” (2019): The comedy is about an underground group of people who believe that they are vampires attract that unwanted attention from the IRS — until romance blooms between the investigating tax auditor (Christian Coulson) and one of the vampires (Naomi Mcdougall Jones, who wrote the screenplay).
Showtime: 7 p.m. Saturday
•“Black Christmas” (1974): Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star in the story of sorority members being stalked during Christmas break.
Showtimes: 7:15 p.m. Wednesday CAPA SUMMER MOVIE SERIES, 39 E. STATE ST.
Contact: 614-469-0939, www.capa.com
• “Ben-hur: A Tale of the Christ” (1925): No, Charlton Heston wasn’t the first actor to portray the wronged prince; Ramon Novarro was. But the big stars are in the background: those appearing in uncredited roles include Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Janet Gaynor, Joan Crawford, Douglas Fairbanks, Dorothy and Lillian Gish, John and Lionel Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Mary Pickford and Harold Lloyd.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday
• “Vertigo” (1958): In 2012, the Alfred Hitchcock thriller ended the 50-year run of “Citizen Kane” atop the British Film Institute’s “50 Greatest Films.” 1871 N. HIGH ST.
Contact: 614-292-3535, www.wexarts.org
Admission: $8, or $6 for members, students and senior citizens
• “Test Tube Babies” (1948): Next up in the series “Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture,” a couple struggling with infertility learns about artificial insemination, complete with a color screening of an actual childbirth. Before the movie, two shorts will be screened with titles that say it all: “How to Take a Bath” and “How to Undress” (both 1937).
Showtime: 7 p.m. Thursday
• “Buddy” (2018): The documentary by Heddy Honigmann is a portrait of six service dogs and their owners.
Showtimes: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday screened or not.
“The next month happens if we sell x amount of tickets to this month,” he said. “It’s sort of like film lovers keep it going.”