Our next Filmmaker in Person event is coming up! Join us on March 18 for Jason Biggs’ UNTITLED HOME INVASION ROMANCE, about an actor’s attempt to save his failing marriage by staging a home invasion.
Following the show: a Q&A with screenwriter and Des Moines local Josh Johnson!
🎟️ bit.ly/4sss13R
Kink friends and Pillion
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Dark. Twisted. Beautiful. #TheBrideMovie opens this Thursday!
Get tickets: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/the-b...
The big night is TWO WEEKS AWAY! Start planning your look now, whether that’s a top hat & bowtie or donning your favorite character costume like last year’s Nosferatu. Comfy clothes welcome too! See you on the red carpet. 💃
🎟️ Red Carpet Affair: bit.ly/4qXdc8a
Photo Credit to Mary Elle Photography
Introducing the 2026 Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts! Opening Saturday, February 28.
Tickets & showtimes: bit.ly/4sk8tPe
🔪 “Butcher's Stain” (26 min.)
⚽️ “A Friend of Dorothy” (21 min.)
🩸 “Jane Austen's Period Drama” (12 min.)
🎶 “The Singers” (18 min.)
💋 “Two People Exchanging Saliva” (36 min.)
We’re looking for a part-time shift lead to join our team! Send us an email to learn more and apply. 🍿
Introducing the 2026 Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts! Opening Friday, February 27.
Tickets at: bit.ly/3P5owSr
🎥 All the Empty Rooms
🎥 Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
🎥 Children No More: ‘Were and Are Gone’
🎥 The Devil is Busy
🎥 Perfectly a Strangeness
Opening, March 5: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein reimagining #TheBride stars Jessie Buckley as The Bride, who has been created as a companion for Frank (Christian Bale), sparking romance and radical social change. ⚡️
Tickets & Showtimes for Opening Weekend: bit.ly/3N3xwXK
#TheBrideMovie
Introducing the Animated 2026 Oscar Shorts! Opening Friday, Feb. 27.
🏊 “Butterfly” (France, 15 min.)
🐻 “Forevergreen” (USA, 13 min.)
💧 “The Girl Who Cried Pearls” (Canada, 17 min.)
👴🏻 “Retirement Plan” (Ireland, 7 min.)
🏝️ “The Three Sisters” (Israel, 14 min.)
Tickets & showtimes: bit.ly/4u0Lcna
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Early Bird Pricing for our Summer Camps & Seminars ends March 1!
Grades 4-5: Travel the world through movies 🌎
Grades 6-12: Get hands-on stop motion animation experience ⏯️
Grades 9-12: Explore the hero’s journey and the female perspective on film 🎥
Sign up at: varsitydesmoines.com/education/?u...
Opening Friday: PILLION 🏍️ Alexander Skarsgård stars as the enigmatic biker Ray who takes in Colin (Harry Melling), a timid gay man, as his submissive in a wild, erotic BDSM-focused relationship.
Tickets & showtimes: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/pilli...
Showtimes & tickets are now available for the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films for all three categories: Animated, Documentary, and Live Action – opening this Friday, Feb. 27! 🎥
Don’t miss your chance to catch some incredible filmmaking that will also help you predict this year’s big winners. ✨
PROJECT HAIL MARY tickets are on sale NOW! 🚀 Opening March 20, the highly anticipated sci-fi adaptation stars Ryan Gosling as an astronaut who wakes up in space with his memory wiped. He soon learns that his mission is to save Earth, and that he is not alone.
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Before the phenomenon of SINNERS and BLACK PANTHER, Ryan Coogler directed Michael B. Jordan in the poignant biographical drama FRUITVALE STATION.
Join us for a special screening on Wednesday, February 25 featuring a post-film conversation with local community leaders.
Tickets at: bit.ly/46jACgC
It’s a Charli XCX fest at Varsity Cinema this weekend! Catch her new film THE MOMENT and her new soundtrack in WUTHERING HEIGHTS — now playing 😎
It feels like #AllisSummer right now in Des Moines. ☀️ Making it the perfect time to see THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE before it closes at the end of the week! Hurry in to witness Amanda Seyfried’s angelic voice and Mona Fastvold’s fearless direction in the legendary true tale of Ann Lee.
The moment is almost here. Who’s ready for Brat February? Charli XCX’s THE MOMENT opens Friday, February 13. 💋
Nearly close enough to touch. #WutheringHeightsMovie comes to Varsity Cinema in ONE WEEK. 🌹
The time is here for THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE — now playing, one week only! Don't miss one of the best films of the year and a career best performance from Amanda Seyfried.
Tickets & showtimes: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/the-t...
#TheTestamentofAnnLee #NowPlaying
and it's really delicious and you should get one when THE MOMENT opens on friday, february 13 💚
Anyone joining us Saturday for the critically acclaimed 5+ hour documentary MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS gets free bottomless popcorn!
Don’t miss your chance to catch this unique cinematic experience of a thought-provoking journalistic documentary, featuring two intermissions and all-you-can-eat popcorn.
Opening Friday and playing ONE WEEK only: THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE 🙌 Experience the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Seyfried is revelatory in this retelling of an 18th century feminist icon.
Showtimes: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/the-t...
High school cinephiles: Now's your chance to flex your love for film with Seminars and a Stop Motion Animation class!
Early Bird Pricing ends March 1. Sign up at: bit.ly/4c4lzLo
⟡Main Character Energy⟡ Seminar: June 30-July 2
⟡HerStory⟡ Seminar: July 14-16
⟡Stop Motion Animation⟡ Class: July 20-24
THE VOICE OF HIND RIJAB uses original audio recordings to devastating effect. The Best International Feature Film nominee is being hailed as “a virtuoso exercise in single-location filmmaking” (NYT) and “an essential act of intervention” (Time Out).
Now playing: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/the-v...
Just a couple more days until GROUNDHOG DAY! Come quote your favorite holiday film at our Movie Bash on Monday, February 2 at 7pm. 🦫🎩
Tickets at: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/groun...
Join us on Sat., Feb. 7 for a one-time showing of the critically acclaimed 5+ hour documentary “My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow” w/ two intermissions.
It captures a moment of immense anxiety for a journalist in Russia, just months before the Ukraine invasion.
🎟️ bit.ly/4bnWD1j
Everyone in Iowa right now. 🥶
Save the date! 📆 GROUNDHOG DAY plays on February 2 at 7pm as our next Movie Bash — audience interaction encouraged!
🎟️ Tickets at: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/groun...
Our July stop motion class for 6-8 graders is almost sold out! But don’t worry — we’ve opened another week in August. 🤠 Grades 6-8: August 10-14 from 8:30am-12:30pm.
Register at: bit.ly/4r8oYgL
Playing Saturday, January 24 at 1 pm: Met Live in HD production of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY — presented with the Des Moines Metro Opera!
Don't miss this exhilarating operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Tickets: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/met-o...
