The New Cult Canon is the Onion A.V. Club’s ongoing series about those rare movies that deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Blue Velvet and Kitten with a Whip. Tonight, things get interactive as the Onion’s Nathan Rabin hosts a screening of 2003’s Bad Santa, starring a perfectly repugnant Billy Bob Thornton as a gin-swilling, ass-tapping shopping mall Saint Nick. Amazing bonus: Director Terry Zwigoff will be on hand for a post-show Q&A! (Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave, central-cinema.com, 8 pm, $6 adv/$8 DOS, 21+)
David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest... More by David Schmader