A veil abruptly descends over the busy Shibuya area amid the bustling Halloween crowds, trapping countless civilians inside. Satoru Gojo, the strongest jujutsu sorcerer, steps into the chaos. But lying in wait are curse users and spirits scheming to seal him away. Yuji Itadori, accompanied by his classmates and other top-tier jujutsu sorcerers, enters the fray in an unprecedented clash of curses — the Shibuya Incident. In the aftermath, ten colonies across Japan are transformed into dens of curses in a plan orchestrated by Noritoshi Kamo, the most wicked sorcerer in history. As the deadly Culling Game starts, Special Grade sorcerer Yuta Okkotsu is assigned to carry out Yuji’s execution for his perceived crimes. The desperate confrontation between Satoru Gojo’s two beloved students comes to the big screen with an early preview. Be the first to experience Yuji and Yuta’s fateful battle with the hotly anticipated kickoff to Season 3 in theatres nationwide.It is scheduled to play locally through the 12th at the AMC Loews Waterfront, AMC Loews Westmoreland in Greensburg, and the Cinemark theaters in McCandless, Monaca, Monroeville, and Robinson; after the 12th it will play at the AMC Loews Waterfront, AMC Classic South Hills Village, and the Cinemarks in McCandless and Monroeville. Tickets are available online.
From acclaimed director Diao Yinan, The Wild Goose Lake is the stunning follow-up to his 2014 Berlinale winning neo-noir Black Coal, Thin Ice. Toppling box office records in Diao’s native China, The Wild Goose Lake “cements his status as a master filmmaker with another ingenious crime epic” (Little White Lies). When small-time mob leader Zhou Zenong (Chinese superstar Hu Ge) accidentally kills a cop, a dead-or-alive bounty is placed on his head, forcing him on the lam from both the police as well as dangerous gangsters out for the reward. Hiding out in China’s densely populated (and deeply divided) city of Wuhan, Zhou becomes entangled with a beautiful, enigmatic woman, who has mysterious intentions of her own. Featuring gorgeous, neon-drenched cinematography and bursts of shocking, expertly choreographed action, The Wild Goose Lake is “spellbinding” (Rolling Stone), “brilliant" (Indiewire), and “downright Hitchcockian” (AV Club).
It plays at the Harris Theater in downtown's Cultural District and tickets are available online.
“Dojeon! (Challenge!) Until the day I meet every ARMY.” Jin has embarked on his first journey to connect with ARMY, whether in person or online. Spanning 10 cities and 20 performances - from Goyang to Japan, North America, Europe, and back to Incheon - the most thrilling moments of the tour are now ready to unfold on the big screen. With "challenge" as its theme, the show sees "Worldwide Handsome" Jin brings his signature energy to the stage, laughing, singing, and completing missions with ARMY across five energetic rounds. From his first solo album, "Happy," backed by a live band, to his second mini album, "Echo," and a special medley of BTS songs, the concert unfolds as a panorama of diverse music and emotion, captivating both eyes and ears. Amidst that blazing energy, everyone becomes the star of the festival once again. Jin cordially invites you to a special year-end party in cinemas, as #RUNSEOKJIN_EP.TOUR THE MOVIE brings the vibrant stage that launched his first solo fan concert world tour to life, once again.It is scheduled to play locally, so far, at the Cinemark theater in Robinson, and tickets are available online.
City Winery Pittsburgh presents JIAOYING SUMMERS: LUCKY PONY 26 live on Friday, March 6th, at 7:30PM!Doors open at 6:00 pm and the show starts at 7:30 pm. Tickets are available online, ranging in price from $25 to $70, though there is an additional $25 food & beverage minimum. City Winery Pittsburgh is located at 1627 Smallman St. in the Strip District Terminal (map).
Jiaoying Summers recently released her Hulu comedy special What Specie Are You? Named one of Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch” (2025), Summers shines in her debut stand-up hour as she explores what divides us, what unites us, and what belonging truly means. Drawing from her life as a first-generation immigrant, she turns cultural clashes, identity, and motherhood into razor-sharp comedy that resonates across continents.
An award-winning performer and inductee of the Asian Hall of Fame, Jiaoying is emerging as one of the most influential Asian voices in comedy. She made history as the first Chinese comedian to headline and sell out the Apollo Theater in New York City. With more than 1 billion views across social media and over 5 million followers, she is a digital powerhouse known for viral hits like her “Uber Karen” sketch and her comedic breakdowns of English names from a Chinese perspective.
Beyond the stage, Jiaoying is the creator and host of the hit podcast Tiger Mom, where she interviews comedians, artists, and cultural figures in intimate, unfiltered conversations. She is also a successful entrepreneur: the former Miss China now owns and operates The Hollywood Comedy and The Green Room Comedy Café, creating platforms for diverse and underrepresented comedic talent.
Jiaoying Summers delivers fearless, modern commentary on identity, race, and gender to audiences worldwide, making her one of the boldest, most dynamic, and unmissable comedians working today.
Want to see some of the newest anime premiering next season before it even airs in Japan? Fans will have their chance on Monday, December 15, as Crunchyroll Anime NightsOpens in a new tab is hosting a special sneak peek screening in the United States and Canada of select series to premiere in the upcoming Winter anime season!It plays at the AMC Loews Waterfront at 7:00 pm and tickets are available online.
Info on which series part of the sneak peek won't be available beforehand, so you will have to find out yourself! However, anime featured during the screening will only be shown in Japanese with English subtitles.
Get ready for the first-ever Gundam Premiere Night! This exclusive event celebrates the legendary franchise with a double-feature debut. First, experience Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urdr-Hunt: Path of the Little Challenger, paired with the special 10th Anniversary short film Wedge of Interposition (SUBBED). Followed by the epic Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz – Special Edition – remastered in 4K and featuring newly added animated scenes. Plus, each film will include a one-of-a-kind introduction created just for this premiere night. Don’t miss your chance to be part of Gundam history!It is scheduled to play locally, so far, at the Cinemark in Monroeville, and tickets are available online. The January 15 show is in Japanese with English subtitles.
City Winery Pittsburgh presents KRAZE KPOP live on Saturday, March 21st, part of a multi-show series. Please note this event is 18+.Doors open at 4:30 pm and the show starts at 6:00 pm. Tickets are available online, ranging in price from $18 to $35, though there is an additional $25 food & beverage minimum. City Winery Pittsburgh is located at 1627 Smallman St. in the Strip District Terminal (map).
Dance to your favorite KPOP songs all night long at City Winery Pittsburgh! Party all night to your favorite hits from BTS, BLACKPINK, Stray Kids, TWICE, NCT, NewJeans, and more! Local dance cover groups will also be taking the stage throughout the night.
For the first time, Chainsaw Man slashes his way onto the big screen in an epic, action-fueled adventure that continues the hugely popular anime series. Denji worked as a Devil Hunter for the yakuza, trying to pay off the debt he inherited from his parents, until the yakuza betrayed him and had him killed. As he was losing consciousness, Denji’s beloved chainsaw-powered devil-dog, Pochita, made a deal with Denji and saved his life. This fused the two together, creating the unstoppable Chainsaw Man. Now, in a brutal war between devils, hunters, and secret enemies, a mysterious girl named Reze has stepped into his world, and Denji faces his deadliest battle yet, fueled by love in a world where survival knows no rules.It plays locally at the AMC Loews Waterfront, and tickets are available online.
This presentation examines how contemporary Chinese artists transform the traditional handscroll format into a site of remediation within global art institutions. It analyzes specific works: Wang Qingsong’s The Night Revels of Lao Li (2000) transforms the handscroll into a monumental public spectacle, subverting its private viewing ritual. Hong Lei’s vitrine-displayed scroll, I dreamt of being killed by my father…(2000), fuses Daoist symbolism with psychoanalysis to process memory. Chen Chieh-jen’s mechanized Star Chart (2017) employs automated scrolling to critique capitalist discipline and technological surveillance. Drawing on media theory’s concept of remediation, I argue that these practices not only revive the handscroll’s narrative temporality but also expose the tensions between Chinese aesthetic traditions and Western institutional frameworks. By turning the handscroll into a site of cross-cultural translation, these artists reveal how visual media negotiate between tradition and modernity, intimacy and spectacle, and local and global systems of meaning. This project illuminates how Chinese contemporary art challenges Western-centric paradigms and offers new ways to understand cultural exchange and representation in an age of global visual circulation.It takes place from 12:00 to 12:50 pm in 202 Frick Fine Arts in Oakland (map).
WHERE, YOU ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY ASKING, HAS JAY SOM BEEN? …six years ago, in 2019, Melina Duterte released Anak Ko, the expansive third album from the project that had quickly grown far beyond its so-called bedroom pop origins into something resembling an actual band. But when a shuttered touring industry scrapped Jay Som’s ambitious 2020 plans, Duterte realized she had long needed a reset from the road after several years of constant pivots between touring and writing. She decided to splurge on herself and her lifelong interest in recording, funneling her government stimulus check into a piece of dream gear—a vintage Neve console. She committed herself to manuals and online tutorials. Five years later, a Grammy for her work on The Record by boygenius, the band she subsequently joined as a touring member. Yes, Jay Som itself has been on a bit of a break; Duterte, however, has perhaps been busier than ever.Jay Som will perform at Spirit Lounge, 242 51st St in Lawrenceville (map). TIckets for the 21+ show are now available online.
When Duterte reckoned the time had come to revisit Jay Som, she did not pretend to be hidebound by the project’s past. Instead, she let the half-decade of life she’d lived and work she’d done since releasing Anak Ko filter not only into her songs but also her process. But she also opened up her music to herself and her memories, writing songs that revisited the sounds of her youth with the benefit of her experiences as a musician, producer, and performer. She was neither shy about her influences nor limited about where they might lead her. And so no previous Jay Som album sounds quite like the new Belong, a gripping 11-song set about self-definition and, well, belonging, that floats between supercharged power-pop hits and hazy ballads, between electronic curiosities and lighters-up anthems. It is a map of the first 31 years of Duterte’s life, all leading to the present that is Belong.
In this moving family drama from Yasugiro Ozo, Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father and has no plans to marry – that is, until her aunt Masa convinces her father that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa’s matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.Tickets are available online. The single-screen theater is located at 4115 Butler St. (map).
Photo via the Korea Tourism Organization.We’re excited to kick off the winter cycle starting December 6th!
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Registration links might be available on the library's website ahead of the first weekend. The Oakland branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is located at 4400 Forbes Ave. (map), accessible by numerous city bus lines.
In July 2025, MONSTA X set the KSPO DOME ablaze over three unforgettable days with their show 2025 MONSTA X CONNECT X. From the powerful live band session and a setlist packed with spectacular performances, to never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage of the preparation process, and exclusive, heartfelt interviews where the members reflect on their intense 10-year journey — this film captures it all. A chronicle of a decade-long story written together by MONSTA X and MONBEBE.It is scheduled to play locally at the AMC Loews Waterfront and the Cinemark theaters in Monroeville and Robinson, and tickets are available online.
A veil abruptly descends over the busy Shibuya area amid the bustling Halloween crowds, trapping countless civilians inside. Satoru Gojo, the strongest jujutsu sorcerer, steps into the chaos. But lying in wait are curse users and spirits scheming to seal him away. Yuji Itadori, accompanied by his classmates and other top-tier jujutsu sorcerers, enters the fray in an unprecedented clash of curses — the Shibuya Incident. In the aftermath, ten colonies across Japan are transformed into dens of curses in a plan orchestrated by Noritoshi Kamo, the most wicked sorcerer in history. As the deadly Culling Game starts, Special Grade sorcerer Yuta Okkotsu is assigned to carry out Yuji’s execution for his perceived crimes. The desperate confrontation between Satoru Gojo’s two beloved students comes to the big screen with an early preview. Be the first to experience Yuji and Yuta’s fateful battle with the hotly anticipated kickoff to Season 3 in theatres nationwide.It is scheduled to play locally at the AMC Loews Waterfront, AMC Loews Westmoreland in Greensburg, and the Cinemark theaters in McCandless, Monaca, Monroeville, and Robinson, and tickets are available online.
In the summer of 2024, Ting Tong Chang spent the better part of a week exploring Pittsburgh, during which time he learned of the pivotal role the region played in the history of organized labor. He was particularly struck by the 1892 Homestead Strike — a violent confrontation between workers and Henry Clay Frick’s Pinkerton agents – and the extreme power imbalances it highlighted. Drawing inspiration from these events, as well as from the Mattress Factory’s own layered history of industrial and cultural production, the Taiwanese-born artist worked alongside local filmmakers Alex Abrahams and Benny Shaffer to create a story that would weave these threads together. The resulting work is a murder mystery film set in a fictional macaroni factory, where the factory owner is found dead and each character carries their own potential motives and suspicions.The museum is located at at 500 Sampsonia Way, in the Mexican War Streets neighborhood of the North Side (map).
This film noir–inspired work began as a three-act play. Here it becomes juxtaposed with a documentary style “making of” film. It is both a film and a film about the making of that film.
This cinematic device is further complicated by the casting of museum staff as the film’s actors. What emerges is not just a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process but an intimate portrait of daily museum life. Alongside cast rehearsals and set building, we see staff using the copy machine, greeting visitors, and cracking jokes at a morning meeting. The result is a twisting metanarrative that dissolves the boundaries between art and labor, performance and production. Through its structure and story, The Hidden Shift invites viewers to grapple with complex questions surrounding capitalism, the meaning of work, and the precarity of the so-called ‘creative class.’
This blending of reality and fiction extends beyond the screen, unfolding further within the exhibition space. Here, visitors encounter remnants of the film set – hand painted backdrops, leftover props, and dramatic lighting. By positioning the audience within the physical traces of the film’s production, Chang creates a bodily experience that unsettles our sense of what is real and what is constructed. We find ourselves unwittingly stepping onto a stage that slowly reveals itself.
At the climax of the film, the two juxtaposed narratives begin collapsing into each other. Staff are shown in costume walking through the museum. Fictional characters break the fourth wall. A boom mic operator slips into frame. This self-awareness and subtle humor is common in Chang’s work, where drama and satire merge, offering a lens to help us understand our complex past as we confront an uncertain future.
From director Park Chan-wook and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel THE AX, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years.It is scheduled to play at the AMC Loews Waterfront and tickets are available online.
For the first time, Chainsaw Man slashes his way onto the big screen in an epic, action-fueled adventure that continues the hugely popular anime series. Denji worked as a Devil Hunter for the yakuza, trying to pay off the debt he inherited from his parents, until the yakuza betrayed him and had him killed. As he was losing consciousness, Denji’s beloved chainsaw-powered devil-dog, Pochita, made a deal with Denji and saved his life. This fused the two together, creating the unstoppable Chainsaw Man. Now, in a brutal war between devils, hunters, and secret enemies, a mysterious girl named Reze has stepped into his world, and Denji faces his deadliest battle yet, fueled by love in a world where survival knows no rules.It plays locally at the AMC Loews Waterfront, and tickets are available online.
Celebrating their 10th anniversary, SEVENTEEN embarks on a monumental new journey with their world tour [NEW_], symbolizing a fresh start and endless possibilities ahead. Known as a performance powerhouse, SEVENTEEN delivers dynamic stages, reimagined choreography, and solo performances that spotlight each member’s growth and artistry. From Incheon to North America and across Asia, the journey culminates in the Nagoya concert, broadcast live to cinemas worldwide on November 29. Experience SEVENTEEN’s passion, unity, and energy; on the big screen, together with fans around the world.It is scheduled to play locally, so far, at the Cinemark theater in Robinson, and tickets for the two shows that day are available online.
