OUTSIDE THE MEGAPLEX
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
1001 Bissonnet; mfah.org
A look underneath the glitz and glamour of New York’s most famous club. 7 p.m. Friday
Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture. 6 p.m. Saturday
A rebellious teenager weaves a story to an itinerant reporter about a mermaid sighting and, unexpectedly, her town becomes the place to be. 8 p.m. Saturday A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town. 3 p.m. Sunday A documentary collage depicting the life and art of the Israel Museum. 5 p.m. Sunday
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE CINEMA
“Studio 54” “In Between” “Virgins” 2707 Commercial Center, Katy; drafthouse.com/ houston
A newly dead couple calls on a bizarre demon to scare the living from their home. 7:30 p.m. Friday
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster’s myth. 9 p.m. Friday Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein monster and the Wolf Man. 10:30 a.m. Saturday With their warning about Lord Voldemort’s return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts. 12:15 p.m. Saturday As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as “the property of the HalfBlood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s dark past. 3:45 p.m. Saturday “Evil Dead II” The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack. 7:30 p.m. Saturday “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” “The Band’s Visit” “Donnie Darko” A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes. 10 p.m. Saturday “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man” “The Museum” After being awakened, Larry Talbot chips Frankenstein’s monster out of a block of ice, when Talbot changes to the Wolf Man, the two creatures battle each other. 6 p.m. Sunday “It” A group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shapeshifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown. 7:45 p.m. Tuesday “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” “Beetlejuice” “Tremors”
Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures. 7:30 p.m. Thursday “Candyman”
MEMORIAL CITY MALL
303 Memorial City Way; memorialcity.com Mavis surprises Dracula with a family voyage on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship but later realizes the ship’s captain hides a dangerous secret that could destroy all of monsterkind. 8 p.m. Friday
DISCOVERY GREEN
1500 McKinney; discoverygreen.com
A teenager teams up with the daughter of youngadult horror author R. L. Stine after the writer’s imaginary demons are set free on the town of Madison, Del. 7:30 p.m. Saturday
HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE
5555 Hermann Park Drive; hmns.org
In Sichuan, China, a researcher forms a bond with a panda that is about to experience nature for the first time. Multiple screenings daily.
A storm forms off the coast of West Africa and grows as it crosses the Atlantic. Multiple screenings daily. A journey of discovery transports the audience to the mysterious world of Earth’s oceans. Multiple screenings daily.
RIVER OAKS THEATRE
2009 W. Gray; landmarktheatres.com A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. Midnight Friday and Saturday
RICE CINEMA
“Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” 2030 University; film.rice.edu “Manufactured Landscapes” Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing. 7 p.m. Wednesday “Pandas 3D” “All the Queen’s Horses”
Filmmaker Kelly Richmond Pope investigates how a city comptroller was able to steal $37,000 a day for two decades. 6 p.m. Thursday “Hurricane 3D” “Goosebumps” “Oceans: Our Blue Planet 3D” “Psycho”