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Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Quinn, who says: “This sapphic modern classic burnt a hole through my brain the first time I saw it in February 2020, and I left the theater forever changed. It’s my rainy day movie, my desert island movie, and a staggering masterpiece from start to finish.”

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy clash over the computerization of a TV network’s research department, which threatens to take the jobs of the women in this workplace — and just in time for the holidays.

When three sorority sisters find themselves under attack from a foul-mouthed killer, it’s up to the police chief to even the odds. BLACK CHRISTMAS is a terrifying and demented holiday tradition that gets everything right. We’d expect nothing less from the director of A CHRISTMAS STORY.

“Merry Christmas, 007.” The sixth James Bond film was released on Dec 19, 1969, and stars George Lazenby in his only role as playboy British agent James Bond, who goes undercover to pursue the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), hell-bent on a holiday plan to hold the world at ransom.

Work-In-Progress Screening — 2025 marks 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry. But what about Opryland USA, the show park that saved the Opry? The park was the centerpiece of life in Nashville during its 25 years of operation, drawing 2.5 million visitors a year to Middle Tennessee. It’s past time to definitively answer the question “WHY was Opryland closed and replaced with a shopping mall?”