The 98th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will honor the best films released in 2025. Your ticket includes the red carpet show, the main event, and all-you-can-eat appetizers. You're on your own for drinks, but we've got a great selection of local wine, beer, and other non-alcoholic treats.
Rfor sexuality/nudity, language, some violence and drug content
Black Dynamite is the greatest African-American action star of the 1970s. When his only brother is killed by The Man, it's up to him to find justice. This film includes all-you-can-eat pasta with your ticket!
Rfor bloody violent content including a suicide, grisly images and language.
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
PG
Cereal Cinema is the New Parkway's Saturday morning offering of family-friendly fun, accompanied by an all-you-can-eat cereal bar. We'll have classic cartoons from decades past on the screen, none announced until the actual show, but all of a PG or G equivalency.
PG-13for sexual content and some strong language.
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.
G
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately. Screening includes a pre-show lecturette about the science in the film.
Rfor strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content
Quentin Tarantino’s KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR unites Volume 1 and Volume 2 into a single, unrated epic—presented exactly as he intended, complete with a new, never-before-seen anime sequence. Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, left for dead after her former boss and lover Bill ambushes her wedding rehearsal, shooting her in the head and stealing her unborn child. To exact her vengeance, she must first hunt down the four remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before confronting Bill himself. With its operatic scope, relentless action, and iconic style, THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR stands as one of cinema’s definitive revenge sagas—rarely shown in its complete form, and now presented with a classic intermission.
PGfor thematic content, peril and brief scary images.
The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family’s housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family’s idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan. This screening is dubbed in English.
Rfor language throughout, sexual content, some violent content/bloody images and nudity.
Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
The Merritt Dialogues bring visionary thinkers together to explore technology, sport, art, the future of human possibility, and more. The Merritt Dialogues presents AI: Can We Control What We Create?, a provocative conversation on the future of artificial intelligence with Roman Yampolskiy and Rumman Chowdhury, moderated in person by Jeff Chang, author of Water Mirror Echo. Join us at The New Parkway in Uptown Oakland for an evening that bridges technology, ethics, and art. Our distinguished thinkers will explore what it means to create intelligence we may not fully understand or be able to contain. This is a watch party format with both speakers presented virtually on the big screen and the moderator in person. Only the in-person audience will experience a live performance by a local Oakland artist and a community post-discussion. Drinks and food are available from the theater and books will be for sale after the event.
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, then she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance. This screening includes all-you-can-eat pasta with your ticket!
Drag queens and club kids battle zombies craving brains during a zombie outbreak at their drag show in Brooklyn, putting personal conflicts aside to utilize their distinct abilities against the undead threat.
Nomi Malone, a mysterious young girl with the ambition to dance embarks on a journey to Las Vegas to become a showgirl in a high-class hotel show. There she meets Molly, a seamstress at the Stardust Hotel and the two quickly become good friends. She gets a job as a lap dancer at the seedy Cheetah Club but after a chance meeting with Cristal Connors, the star of Goddess, the current show at the hotel where Molly works, Nomi manages to secure an audition for a spot on the chorus line.However she soon realizes that fame comes with a price as her friendships, her morals and her soul are put to the test as she works her way up the ladder and eventually becomes the star of the show, stealing Cristal's part. She begins to wonder if all of her work was for nothing and if she can reclaim her life back before it is too late.
PG-13for thematic material, some sexuality, strong language, and smoking.
Bruce Springsteen's journey crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band. Based on Warren Zanes' book.
Super Bowl LIX, or as we say in English, 60, is the biggest of the big games, and we have all the action on the silver screens. While we don't know who is playing, it's going to be super! We'll have all the blood, sweat, and cheers with no shortage of great food and drink. Come on down so you don't miss a minute of the action!
Rfor strong violence, some gore, and language.
A man joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to flee anywhere in the world, are pursued by "hunters" hired to kill them.