✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: May 30-June 5

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The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming titles, check out the 2025 Film Guide.

Pavements (Dir. Alex Ross Perry) The 90s’ favorite surf punk indie band gets a semi-fictionalized documentary that satirizes overwrought Oscar-bait biopics and has been wowing audiences on the festival circuit. Now playing at The Belcourt. Friday screenings feature intros and Q&As with members of the band. 

Karate Kid: Legends (Dir. Jonathan Entwistle) OG protege Ralph Macchio joins up with Jackie Chan to bridge the worlds of Cobra Kai and the 2010 remake. Thankfully, there’s no Jaden Smith in sight. Now playing in theaters.

Bring Her Back (The Philippous) A brother and sister uncover the ritualistic tendencies of their new foster mother at a country estate in the latest from the brothers behind the 2023 horror hit Talk To Me. Now playing in theaters. 

Nashville: A City on Film/Altman at 100 The Belcourt turned 100 this year. So did the late Robert Altman. To celebrate, Nashville’s arthouse has curated a selection of films shot in Nashville from Harmony Korine’s Gummo to the little-seen Girl from Tobacco Row to Ernest Scared Stupid. The tribute to the 70s film icon features a lineup including Thieves Like Us, The Player, and California Split. Fittingly, both festivities kick off this week with a screening of Altman’s Nashville hosted by special guest Keith Carradine. 

Wednesdays with Wes As indie fans await the debut of Wes Anderson’s The Phonecian Scheme in June, the Belcourt offers a weekly celebration of the American Eccentric beginning with The Royal Tenenbaums and continuing with The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Grand Budapest Hotel.  

Demons and Popcorn @ Belcourt Midnights It’s a meta horror weekend with two cult classics set in movie theatres. The Italian tale of demons let loose at a midnight screening to the tunes of Billy Idol and Mötley Crüe kicks off Friday. Then on Saturday, the early 90s’ horror comedy about a serial killer stalking  pretentious film students at an all-night horror marathon shows how it beat Scream by a good half decade.

Menace II Society (Dirs. The Hughes Bros.) The classic 90s coming-of-age tale about the cycle of violence in southern Los Angeles reignites The Belcourt’s “Pizza and a Movie” collaboration with Slim & Husky’s. Screening in 35mm on Thursday.

Tornado (Dir. John Maclean) A young Japanese woman in 1790s Britain seeks vengeance against the criminals who attacked her father’s Samurai puppet show. Now playing in theaters. 

Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience What the most famous pig this side of Babe is doing here seems self explanatory. Now playing in theaters. 

Bolly/Tolly/Kolly/Lollywood and Other Special Presentations of Asian and Middle Eastern Imports.

Now playing at Regal Hollywood 27: Bhairavam (Telugu), Detective Kien: The Headless Horror (Vietnamese), Saunkan Saunkaney 2 (Punjabi), Khaleja (Telugu)