A bullied schoolboy dreams of travelling to Monster Island, where Godzilla's son, Minya, is also dealing with the the problems associated with bullying.

Petty disputes. Over-the-top defenses. You decide who’s guilty of being THE A*HOLE. Think Judge Judy meets stand-up comedy—except the cases are way dumber (but equally entertaining). The CROWD-FAVORITE comedy show where two comics go head-to-head arguing for-and-against your most absurd, everyday disputes and YOU are the jury on whether who is the a*hole. See clips from our past shows on Instagram, @amitheaholecomedy HOW THIS SHOW WORKS Submit your pettiest problems anonymously at the venue before the show starts. Diverse lineup of 3-4 best comics in the Bay Area - as seen on Cobb’s Comedy Club, SF Sketchfest, Punch Line San Francisco, Netflix is a Joke Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and more - will argue both sides like chaotic courtroom lawyers. You can expect: - dramatic monologues - questionable logic - comedians getting way too invested in strangers’ drama Then the power shifts to you. The audience is the jury. You decide who’s guilty of being THE A*HOLE. Hosted by Elisha Tan, a Singaporean comedian based in San Francisco known for her sharp, playful comedy about culture, identity, and navigating life in America. She has performed across the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Asia, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Hollywood Fringe, Punch Line San Francisco, and Cobb’s Comedy Club. Come for the comedy. Stay for the petty justice.

Love for a distant relative cause a Chinese gangster to consider leaving the triad, but despite his best efforts, circumstances and problems caused by an errant younger brother keep pulling him back into the lifestyle.

The Bay Area’s funniest Asian voices take the historic Balboa Theatre stage for one unforgettable night of stand-up comedy. Part of the Ain’t No Joke Comedy Festival, this show brings together a diverse lineup of 5-7 of the best Asian and Asian American comedians in the game—performers who have lit up stages from coast to coast and across the globe. What to expect: Sharp, hilarious, and unapologetically personal stories Fresh perspectives on identity, culture, family, and everything in between Comics as seen at Cobb’s Comedy Club, SF Sketchfest, Punch Line San Francisco, and beyond Hosted by Angel Jin, a bilingual Chinese American actor and stand-up comedian who discovered her knack for telling funny stories at her weekly church small group. She got her start in New York performing at the Comic Strip, Broadway Comedy Club, and Greenwich Village Comedy Club, has recently performed at SF Sketchfest, and can be found at Cobb’s, Punch Line, and other stages across the Bay. Raised in Boston, she is best known for her overuse of the word “wicked” and 6 seconds of hair flipping in a Head & Shoulders commercial. Come for the laughs. Stay for the community.

Two unpopular queer high school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation.

Catch viral sensation Bhavya Shah and more South Asian comics! A portion of proceeds go to the America India Foundation. Come laugh it off at Chai Hard: San Francisco’s funniest Desi stand-up night, featuring Millennial and Gen Z South Asian comics telling jokes your parents would hate. This month’s headliner? Bhavya Shah: an internationally touring comedian. With over 200K followers on Instagram, Bhavya’s razor-sharp take on life as a blind Stanford student has won over fans across India the U.S. He’s been featured on India’s Got Latent and opened for Zarna Garg and Nimesh Patel. Also on the lineup: Dhiraj Nalla (Opened for Abby Govindan and performed at 2026 Asian Comedy Fest) Faraz Abidi (Winner of the 2024 Rooster's Comedy Competition and opened for Saaniya Abbas) ... and more Desi comedians you'll love! Whether you're South Asian, or you just love to laugh, it'll be a night to remember!

Scientists (Jun Tazaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya) face Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra and more obscure Japanese monsters sent by she-aliens.

If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This June, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.

Innocent young Black man Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) is forced to move into a tough Los Angeles slum with his family, including his oddly streetwise, pot-smoking grandma (Helen Martin). Before long, Ashtray’s nuclear-armed gangster cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans) introduces him to a bizarrely comic crime underworld. Luckily, Ashtray falls for urban poet Dashiki (Tracey Cherelle Jones), and she convinces him to go straight — but he must deal with her manic ex-boyfriend Toothpick (Darrel Heath).

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

Godzilla and Mothra put aside their differences to battle a giant crustacean that can regenerate its broken limbs.

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent’s apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it’s personal!

Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra team up to save mankind from the deadliest threat of all -- a fire-breathing space monster.

The world's most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

The Japanese dinosaur wakes up and swims toward Tokyo, leaving a wake of nuclear destruction.

It has razor sharp teeth in a gargantuan mouth; claws that can cut through steel; a roar that echoes back through the centuries; dorsal fins that resemble crimson lightning bolts; and fiery breath that incinerates everything it comes into contact with. Soon, all in the creature's wake is utterly destroyed, and a terrified Japan can only wonder where this monstrous beast will next appear. Godzilla, king of the monsters, is back.

After a meteorite hits Earth and wakes the hibernating Godzilla, two monsters, Mothra and Battra, join forces to defeat the giant lizard.

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Experience Godzilla Minus One in a meticulously decolorized version. Set in a post-war Japan, Godzilla Minus 1 will once again show us a Godzilla that is a terrifying and overwhelming force, which you already get a sense of from the teaser trailer and poster," Koji Ueda, President of Toho International, said in a statement. "The concept is that Japan, which had already been devastated by the war, faces a new threat with Godzilla, bringing the country into the 'minus.'"

Godzilla prepares for battle with an extraterrestrial creature that was formed from his own particles in space.

The aftermath of the Oxygen Destroyer brings forth Destoroyah, a beast intent on killing Godzilla, who is on the verge of a nuclear meltdown.

Presented on 35MM Film! Godzilla and Angorus fight three-headed dragon Ghidrah and huge bird Gigan at a cartoonist's theme park.

Time-travelers' efforts to prevent a dinosaur's mutation result in the creation of a three-headed dragon that terrorizes Japan.

The fire-breathing "King of the Monsters" dukes it out with his mechanised duplicate.

Godzilla and flying cyborg Jet Jaguar meet a giant cockroach and a big black chicken sent by Seatopians.

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call ‘Godzilla’. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.

Humans revive a frozen and gargantuan creature to save the Earth from sinister aliens and the monsters they control.

Godzilla, Mothra and Mechagodzilla threaten to turn Tokyo into toothpicks in an all-out battle for supremacy.

A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.

An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

An intimate documentary following Johnson's journey from surfer to filmmaker to world-renowned musician through rare archives and present-day reflections on how experience, friendship, and exploration shaped his sound and stories.

In the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.

Join us for a night of stand up comedy with comedians who love futbol. We have lineup of comics performing stand up comedy in English, Spanish and Spanglish. Show up with your team’s jersey and come have a laugh!

A tough, New York City ex-cop relentlessly searches for his kidnapped teenage daughter whom is held by a twisted psycho after mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray’s debut, Pather Panchali, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him: his independent older sister, Durga; his harried mother, Sarbajaya, who, with her husband away, must hold the family together; and his kindly and mischievous elderly “auntie,” Indir—vivid, multifaceted characters all. With resplendent photography informed by its young protagonist’s perpetual sense of discovery, Pather Panchali, which won an award for Best Human Document at Cannes, is an immersive cinematic experience and a film of elemental power.

Thirty years have passed since the appearance of Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings, who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves “Mad Burnish” appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team “Burning Rescue” and their leader, Lio Fotia, begins.

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

In SHIN GODZILLA:ORTHOchromatic, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s 2016 feature is reborn in stunning black and white. Released in Japan in 2023 in the leadup to Godzilla’s 70th anniversary, this version adds new dimensions to the film’s visual impact by rendering it in orthochromatic (“ortho” for short) black and white, a type of monochrome inspired by the texture of traditional orthochromatic film, characterized by starker contrasts and more pronounced blacks. The results are awe-inspiring and presents SHIN GODZILLA as never seen before.

Three months after a painful breakup, a Los Angeles based photographer drifts through Silver Lake’s creative chaos—dodging well-meaning friends, career pressures, and fleeting flings—as he navigates his way into the next chapter.

In this Japanese monster movie, the massive Godzilla comes to the aid of his newborn son, who hatches from an egg on a remote island where scientists are conducting experiments with radioactivity. Revealing a surprising paternal streak, Godzilla tries to teach his much smaller progeny how to use his powers. The father/son team must then battle giant insects, including praying mantises and a formidable spider. Can Godzilla protect his curious tike from the gargantuan bugs?

World-famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double-decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.

Presenting Strange Movies at the haunted & historic Balboa Theatre!

Presented on 35MM Film! The real Godzilla fights a cyborg Godzilla and another monster sent by aliens.

Socially anxious hitman Melvin Smiley, an expert in his lucrative field, goes on a job and falls in love with his kidnapping victim, turning his world upside down.

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone (Hal Holbrook) stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie (Adrienne Barbeau) witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth (Jamie Lee Curtis) discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.

The Last Unicorn, 1982 Directed by Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. THERE’S MAGIC IN BELIEVING! From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly’s words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.

Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.

The Matrix, 1999 Directed by Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD. Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

The Odyssey follows Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, on his long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War, chronicling his encounters with mythical beings such as the Cyclops Polyphemus, sirens, and the nymph Calypso, while attempting to reunite with his wife, Penelope.

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O'Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named "Rocky." Doors open: 11:00 Pre-Show: 11:30 Movie Starts: Midnight!

En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills...

A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a clinically diabolical mind. An unorthodox love story and a truly unsettling thriller, Dutch filmmaker George Sluizer’s The Vanishing unfolds with meticulous intensity, leading to an unforgettable finale that has unnerved audiences around the world.

In the near future, a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them down.

After years in prison, ace safe-cracker Frank owns a car dealership and a cocktail lounge, which are fronts for high-stakes jewelry heists. He wants to complete one last big heist for the Mob before he goes straight.

Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.

In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.

After nearly a decade as American Vogue's most subversive fashion photographer, William Klein made this wild, pseudovérité incursion into the world of Parisian haute couture. Elegant, scathing humor ties together the various strands of this alternately glamorous and grotesque portrait of American in Paris Polly Maggoo (Dorothy MacGowan), an Alice in Wonderland supermodel who becomes the pinup plaything of media hounds and the fragmented fantasy of haunted Prince Igor (Sami Frey). Klein's first fiction film is a daring deflation of cultural pretensions and institutions, dressed up in brilliant black and white.