Donnie Darko (2001) 15

Introducing new late screenings at the Lexi - Lexi’s Midnight Runners - a monthly cult movie screening for the night owls of NW10. We know 90% of the Lexi audience arrive on foot, but how many of you live close enough to turn up in your pyjamas? This is a bit of an experiment for us, so if you like the idea, buy a ticket and we’ll keep this going!

Tickets £7 / £5 members

Fifteen years before Stranger Things combined sci-fi, Spielberg-ian touches and 80s nostalgia, director Richard Kelly set the high-water mark with his debut feature, bathed in a weird pathos and about to kickstart the career of a puppy eyed Jake Gyllenhaal. Donnie Darko would arguably become the first cult classic of the new millennium. Donnie is a troubled high-school student, in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and haunted by Frank. Frank is a six-foot rabbit who tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds…