Holiday favorites are here! Including encore showings & a free screening. 📚THE HOLDOVERS: Dec. 20, 22, 24 🐸THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL: Dec. 21, 22, 23 👹GREMLINS: Dec. 21 🌲IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: Dec. 21, 22 + FREE screening on Dec. 24 sponsored by the Iowa Power Cooperative

"Intelligent, elegant adult filmmaking... Genuinely erotic and stylish" (Little White Lies). 🎟️ BABYGIRL tickets are on sale now! varsitydesmoines.com/movies/babygirl Starring Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, and Antonio Banderas. Opens Christmas Day.

Huge thank you to all who came out to our Varsity Pride screening of TANGERINE this week and for the generous support of YSS. Filled our hearts and these donation bins. Win-win.

While Nosferatu’s busy drinking blood, indulge in a refreshing libation of your own with our new specialty cocktail: The Evil Within 🥃🧛🏻‍♂️

This Christmas, get exactly what you want: A delicious cocktail to sip on during the sultry, hypnotic new film BABYGIRL. Get a limited-edition "Good Girl" at Concessions! 🥛

We were thrilled to host a special preview screening of CHIEFSAHOLIC last night with the Des Moines based filmmakers (in person and on iPad). Check out the true-crime sports documentary, now streaming on Prime.

Happy Holidays! Now playing: NOSFERATU and BABYGIRL 🖤🩷

THE BIRTHDAY plays tonight for Midnights@10 🎂😵‍💫 “A true ‘WTF-did-I-just-watch’ experience.” — Jordan Peele Corey Feldman stars in this cult classic about a birthday party at a fancy, sinister hotel. Part comedy of manners, part phantasmagorical head trip. #TheBirthday

Join us next Tuesday for THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE at 7pm! Audience interaction is encouraged. Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between Edward and Jacob.

Join us tonight at 10pm for a limited screening of THE BIRTHDAY! Executive Director, Ben Godar, shares his thoughts on this lost gem of a film: varsitydesmoines.com/2024/12/23/cel…

Awards season is in full swing! 🏆 Two of last night’s winners will be opening at the Varsity in coming weeks: THE BRUTALIST (Best Picture - Drama, Best Director, and Best Male Actor – Drama) and I’M STILL HERE, starring surprise winner Fernanda Torres (Best Female Actor – Drama)

Whether she picks Edward or Jacob, our specialty cocktail "Bella's Choice" 🌙✨ is the right choice at Concessions tonight for our audience-interaction screening of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE at 7pm! Limited tickets remaining.

Opening Friday! From Gia Coppola, THE LAST SHOWGIRL 💎 stars Pamela Anderson as the glamorous Las Vegas showgirl Shelley who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. varsitydesmoines.com/movies/the-las…

Sip on this Hpnotiq drink while you watch the hypnotic Pamela Anderson razzle and dazzle in THE LAST SHOWGIRL, now playing! 💃

Just announced: THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG ☂️ plays Jan. 21 & 25 for Restoration Celebration! Catherine Deneuve illuminates this stunning, bittersweet tale of love and loss as Genevieve, a young, naive shopgirl who falls for an auto mechanic sent to war. varsitydesmoines.com/movies/the-umb…

Opening Friday: NICKEL BOYS, director RaMell Ross' radical adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, immerses you into the powerful story of two Black teens who strike up an alliance at Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South.

Grab your friend who hasn't seen it yet or come in for a rewatch on the big screen before it's gone! Final showings of NOSFERATU are this Thursday.

Hot off award wins, THE BRUTALIST opens next Friday! Adrien Brody stars in this American epic as an architect fleeing post-war Europe in 1947. As he and his wife rebuild their legacy, their lives are forever changed by a mysterious, wealthy client. varsitydesmoines.com/movies/the-bru…

Join us this Sunday, Jan. 19 for #NationalPopcornDay! Popcorn will be $2 off all day — AND try our poppin' twist on an old fashioned: "The Poptail" ✨🍿 with Popcorn-Infused Four Roses Bourbon, Flavacol Simple Syrup, and Butter Extract-Infused Angostura Bitters

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