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    Dungeons & Dragons - Honor Among Thieves
    Monday, June 5th
    8pm
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    M3GAN
    Friday, April 7th
    10pm
    Embarcadero Hall in IV
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    Magic Mike's Last Dance
    Monday April 10
    8pm
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    Knock at the Cabin
    Friday April 14th
    8pm
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    Skinamarink
    Monday, April 17th
    8 and 10pm
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    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
    Friday, April 21
    8pm
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    Barbarian
    Friday April 28th
    8pm
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    Minari
    Monday, May 1st
    8pm
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    The Book of Life
    Friday May 5th
    8pm
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    John Wick - Chapter 4
    Monday, May 8th
    8pm
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    The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    Friday, May 12th
    10pm
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    Howl's Moving Castle
    Monday, May 15th
    8pm
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    Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
    Friday, May 19th
    8pm
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    Tron Legacy
    Monday, May 22nd
    8pm
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    Scream VI
    Friday, June 2nd
    8pm
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All Shows are free with UCSB student ID

$6 for everyone else!

IV Theater

Winter 2023

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Friday April 7th

M3GAN

10:00 pm

M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a lifelike doll that's programmed to be a child's greatest companion and a parent's greatest ally. Designed by Gemma, a brilliant roboticist, M3GAN can listen, watch and learn as it plays the role of friend and teacher, playmate and protector. When Gemma becomes the unexpected caretaker of her 8-year-old niece, she decides to give the girl an M3GAN prototype, a decision that leads to unimaginable consequences.

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Monday April 10th

Magic Mike's Last Dance

8:00 pm

Mike Lane takes to the stage once again when a business deal that went bust leaves him broke and bartending in Florida. Hoping for one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can't refuse -- and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, he soon finds himself trying to whip a hot new roster of talented dancers into shape.

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Friday April 14th

Knock at the Cabin

8:00 pm

While vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand they make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. Confused, scared and with limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

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Monday April 17th

Skinamarink

8:00 pm and 10:00 pm

Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.

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Friday April 21st

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

8:00 pm

Scott Lang is grappling with the consequences of his choices as both a superhero and a father. Approached by Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym, Lang must once again don the Ant-Man suit and fight alongside the Wasp. The urgent mission soon leads to secret revelations from the past as the dynamic duo finds itself in an epic battle against a powerful new enemy.

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Friday April 28th

Barbarian

8:00 pm

A young woman discovers the rental home she booked is already occupied by a stranger. Against her better judgment, she decides to spend the night but soon discovers there's a lot more to fear than just an unexpected house guest.

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Monday May 1st

Minari

8:00 pm

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

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Friday May 5th

The Book of Life

8:00 pm

In the Mexican town of San Angel, Manolo (Diego Luna), Maria (Zoƫ Saldana) and Joaquin (Channing Tatum) have been friends ever since childhood. Although their lives have taken different paths -- Maria was sent to Europe, Joaquin joined the military, and Manolo studied to become a bullfighter -- one thing remains the same: Manolo and Joaquin both want to marry Maria. Little does the trio know that battling husband-and-wife deities have made a high-stakes wager on the love triangle's outcome.

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Monday May 8th

John Wick - Chapter 4

8:00 pm

With the price on his head ever increasing, legendary hit man John Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Japan to Berlin.

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Friday May 12th

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

10:00 pm

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."

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Monday May 15th

Howl's Moving Castle

8:00 pm

The film is set in a fictional kingdom where both magic and early twentieth-century technology are prevalent, against the backdrop of a war with another kingdom. It tells the story of Sophie, a young milliner who is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.

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Friday May 19th

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

8:00 pm

Two lifelong friends (Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar) take a third (Abhay Deol) on a road trip through Spain instead of throwing a traditional bachelor party.

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Monday May 22nd

Tron Legacy

8:00 pm

Sam (Garrett Hedlund), the son of famous video-game developer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), has been haunted for a long time by his father's mysterious disappearance. A strange signal draws Sam to Flynn's Arcade, and he is pulled into the same cyberworld in which his father, its creator, has been trapped for 20 years. With fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde), Kevin and Sam seek to escape from a universe that, while magnificent, is far more advanced and dangerous than Kevin had ever imagined.

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Friday June 2nd

Scream VI

8:00 pm

Four survivors of the Ghostface murders leave Woodsboro behind for a fresh start in New York City. However, they soon find themselves in a fight for their lives when a new killer embarks on a bloody rampage.

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Monday June 5th

Dungeons & Dragons - Honor Among Thieves

8:00 pm

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a long lost relic, but their charming adventure goes dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

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About Magic Lantern Films

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Magic Lantern Films takes its name from the old Magic Lantern Theater, now called the Isla Vista Theater. In the 1970s, the Magic Lantern was an art house that screened classic, independent, and foreign films. The new Magic Lantern picks up where the old one left off by screening critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in college markets, Magic Lantern Films is the most successful film program of its kind in California. Films screen on Friday nights at 8pm. Tix are free with UCSB student ID, $6 for everyone else!