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Dr. Peter Hendricks will present “Psilocybin as Medicine” as a post-screening discussion following the film.
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Every year the Florida government invites the public to compete in an invasive python removal contest in the Everglades. For ten nights, an eclectic group of hunters confronts the dangerous terrain, nocturnal creatures and their own desires.
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Book + Film Club May: Unmasking The Silence of Lambs
119 min
1991
United States of America
Jonathan Demme
Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening. Each session is $35 and the includes book, film screening, and discussion. Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion. Dates, descriptions, and registration deadlines below.
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May 27

7:00 PM
I Love Boosters
105 min
2026
United States of America
Boots Riley
A fearless crew of inventive young women turns shoplifting into a radical act of defiance. Led by Corvette, they move across Oakland, boosting coveted goods as both survival and protest—challenging a system built on exclusion and excess. They even offer a community service, selling their stolen wares at deep discounts to make fashion accessible to all. When their exploits draw unwanted viral attention and their feud with fashion mogul Christie Smith turns personal, the Boosters plan one final, audacious heist. Joined by unexpected allies wielding supernatural powers and time-bending technology, they discover a chance to ignite revolutionary change.
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May 27

2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:15 PM

May 28

2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM

May 29

2:15 PM 4:45 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM

May 30

10:45 AM 1:15 PM 3:45 PM 6:15 PM 8:45 PM

May 31

10:45 AM 1:15 PM 3:45 PM 6:15 PM 8:45 PM

Jun 3

2:15 PM 4:45 PM 7:15 PM

Jun 4

2:15 PM 4:45 PM 9:45 PM
The Python Hunt
91 min
2026
United States of America
Xander Robin
In an attempt to save the threatened ecosystem, the Florida government hosts an annual competition to remove invasive pythons from the Everglades. For ten grueling nights, python-mania overtakes the ‘glades as an eclectic group of amateur hunters contends with unforgiving terrain, aggressive nocturnal creatures, and their own desires and demons that push them into the swamp, searching for slithering glory. From director Xander Robin, winner of the Jambor-Franklin Founder's Award for Best Narrative for his film Are We Not Cats at the 2017 Sidewalk Film Festival.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

May 27

2:30 PM 4:45 PM

May 28

2:15 PM
SHOUT Movie Night Presented by BAO: Mommie Dearest (1981) (Free)
128 min
1981
United States of America
Frank Perry
SHOUT Movie Night is a film series presented and curated by BAO (Birmingham AIDS Outreach) in conjunction with Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema. Our goal is to offer a diverse and inclusive film series that ensures all members of our community are represented.*This is a FREE event and SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. Registering is strongly recommended to help with the check in process but does NOT GUARANTEE A SEAT, and due to the popularity of this event seats can not be saved for anyone who has not arrived.* Film Synopsis: The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.
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May 28

7:00 PM
Backrooms
105 min
2026
Canada, United States of America
Kane Parsons
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

May 28

4:15 PM 10:00 PM

May 29

2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM

May 30

10:30 AM 1:00 PM 3:30 PM 6:00 PM 8:30 PM

May 31

10:30 AM 1:00 PM 3:30 PM 6:00 PM 8:30 PM

Jun 3

2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM

Jun 4

2:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:10 PM 9:30 PM

Jun 5

2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM

Jun 6

10:45 AM 1:15 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM

Jun 7

10:45 AM 1:15 PM 3:45 PM 6:15 PM 8:45 PM

Jun 10

2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM

Jun 11

2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM
Knitflix and Chill: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
113 min
2010
Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America
Edgar Wright
Join us for a special screening of Edgar Wright's classic. Lights will be a little brighter than usual in the theater so you can bring your knitting, crochet or any other craft project! Film Synopsis: As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.
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Jun 4

7:00 PM
Filmmaker Focus: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
146 min
2001
United Kingdom, United States of America
Steven Spielberg
In anticipation of Disclosure Day (coming to Sidewalk on June 12), we're celebrating the early 2000s sci-fi films of the great Steven Spielberg. A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.
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Jun 5

5:00 PM

Jun 6

6:15 PM

Jun 7

6:15 PM

Jun 10

2:15 PM

Jun 11

8:00 PM
Filmmaker Focus: Minority Report (2002)
145 min
2002
United States of America
Steven Spielberg
In anticipation of Disclosure Day (coming to Sidewalk on June 12), we're celebrating the early 2000s sci-fi films of the great Steven Spielberg. For six years, Washington D.C. has been murder free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crime. But when the chief of the Precrime Unit (Tom Cruise) is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who set him up — or he'll fall victim to the "perfect" system he helped create.
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Jun 5

8:00 PM

Jun 6

12:45 PM

Jun 7

3:15 PM 9:15 PM

Jun 10

5:00 PM

Jun 11

2:15 PM
Filmmaker Focus: War of the Worlds (2005)
117 min
2005
United States of America
Steven Spielberg
In anticipation of Disclosure Day (coming to Sidewalk on June 12), we're celebrating the early 2000s sci-fi films of the great Steven Spielberg. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his first wife Mary Ann (Miranda Otto) and estranged from his two children Rachel and Robbie (Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin), of whom he has custody on weekends. On one such visitation, looking after the kids becomes a little more difficult when, after a series of strange lighting storms hit his neighborhood, Ray discovers that a fleet of robotic tripods have emerged nearby, part of the first wave of an all-out alien invasion of the Earth. Transporting his children from New York to Boston in an attempt to find safety at Mary Ann's parents' house, Ray must learn to become the protector and provider he never was in marriage.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Jun 5

2:15 PM

Jun 6

3:45 PM 9:15 PM

Jun 7

12:45 PM

Jun 11

5:15 PM
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