The KOROVA Theatre

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Sunday, September 28, 2025

CHILDREN OF MEN (Alfonso CuarĂ³n, 2006, UK)

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  The near future is a stillborn world of violence and decay, Homo Inferior’s legacy fear in a handful of dust. Through the abattoirs of ari...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

THE CHASE (Arthur Penn, 1966, USA)

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  Sheriff Calder chases the runaway American dream, a symbol of drowning authority amid the tumultuous sea change of the sixties, where mone...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (John Frankenheimer, 1962, USA)

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  “Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.” Major Marco (Frank Sinatra) and ot...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

THE HIT (Stephen Frears, 1984, UK)

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  Supergrass Willie Parker trades his life for ten years of freedom: knowing that he’ll meet the Grim Reaper some sunny day, don’t know wher...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

BILLY BUDD (Peter Ustinov, 1962, UK)

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  Billy Budd is a flower not yet fully bloomed, weeded out by the cruel injustice of a rigid Rule of Law that suppresses morality and appeal...
Monday, July 7, 2025

THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (John Huston, 1964, USA)

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  A defrocked Reverend defrocks a young Sunday school teacher then berates the vapid congregation, their wrinkled faces like mindless lizard...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

HIGHLANDER (Russell Mulcahy, 1986, European Cut)

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  Connor MacLeod is cursed with immortality, suffering the death of his true love, her lifetime as a momentary breeze from a gathering cosmi...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

ACCIDENT (Joseph Losey, 1967, UK)

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  Stephen’s patriarchal crisis becomes a car wreck of twisted morals and fetid emotional fumes, a combustible combination that will burn awa...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey, 1963, UK)

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  Hugo Barrett is seemingly a model servant, a man of impeccable references and character, his black suite and bowler hat a charming anachro...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

WATCHMEN (Zack Snyder, 2009, USA)

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  Ozymandias’ empire wracks the Mighty Corporations with a despairing and mocking futility of their own human fallacies, but in time the bou...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

KNIGHTRIDERS (George Romero, 1981, USA)

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  King William is a creative anachronism who desperately tries to decipher the code of honor in this modern world of polluted morality. Dire...
Monday, May 12, 2025

DELIVERANCE (John Boorman, 1972, USA)

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  Mankind’s primal instincts lurk just below the dark mirrored surface of the mind, the animal only temporarily suppressed by Reason and the...
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