Let’s break from the musical build-up to the year-killer and enjoy a day at the movies. The Eureka Theater is showing a 2 p.m. matinee of An American Tail, the beloved 1986 film animated by Don Bluth and co. about the coming to America story of young Fievel Mousekewitz, whose family is escaping a Cossack pogrom in the Ukraine ($10, $5 for kids 12 and under). Three hours later at the Arcata Theatre Lounge, you will encounter the latest Miyazaki flick The Boy and the Heron, which is a very different tale of wartime violence and a synergistic relationship between humans and animals. Get in the door with $8; $12 lets you leave with a poster.
This article appears in Top 10 Stories of 2024.