Popcorn Taxi is positively ecstatic to present the one and only theatrical screening of Richard Kelly's follow-up to Donnie Darko; Southland Tales.

Los Angeles, 2008: The city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Southland Tales is an epic story set over the course of three days that culminate in a massive 4th of July celebration. A large ensemble cast of characters includes Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), an action star stricken with amnesia, Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a porn star developing her own reality television project, and Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott), a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Southland Tales is en epic journey into pop culture decadence and virtual insanity that would make Terry Gilliam do a double-take.
Popcorn Taxi is proud to invite you to see this extraordinary film on the big screen as the director intended; for one night only.
Plus - you also have the opportunity to take part in a live audience Q&A with Richard Kelly after the movie - direct down the line from 'Southland' itself (Los Angeles), hosted by script-editor, film reviewer and aficionado on all things 'twisted', Luke Goodsell (Empire).

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California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopia science fiction, and music. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution.

In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters.

Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia.

Krysta Now is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex.

And Roland Taverner is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two and he struggles to track down his other half... and perhaps destroy human existence along the way.

"A gonzo, unsettling, semi-coherent, barnstorming near-masterpiece that had me glued to my seat in anticipation of witnessing how far this multi-dimensional funhouse of madness could go." Brian Orndorf. eFilmCritic

"Southland Tales has a mood unlike anything I've seen: dread that morphs into kitsch and then back again. It's a film that tried my patience, and one I couldn't shake off."
Owen Gleiberman. Entertainment Weekly

"Richard Kelly’s wildly ambitious and widely loathed Southland Tales now seems among the most believable works of film futurism ever made in this country."
Rob Nelson. Boston Globe

"Southland Tales contains stuff as uproariously out-there as anything in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and as unnervingly subversive as Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate." Jan Stuart. Newsday