SciFlix: A Date Night With Your Brain


Select Friday Nights at 6:30 p.m.

SciFlix is a community outreach effort designed to openly and honestly discuss science, theories, and ethics in popular fiction. Films begin at 6:30 p.m. in Regnier Hall Auditorium. Following the film, our moderator will introduce a panel of experts who provide their reactions to the film along with an audience Q&A session.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 1986, PG-13 Aug. 30

Join us during Hawk Week as our students return to watch this classic comedy. A popular high school student, admired by his peers, decides to take a day off from school and goes to extreme lengths to pull it off, to the chagrin of his Dean, who'll do anything to stop him.
young man with sunglasses and hands behind his head

The Sound of Silence, 2019, unrated, Sept. 20

A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
two people facing away from each other

The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951, G, Oct. 11

An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
robot with man and woman behind

The Mummy, 1999, PG-13, Oct. 25

Special Halloween Movie! At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love.
man and woman in the desert with a gun

The Andromeda Strain, 1971, G, Nov. 15

Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped
scientists in a lab
Regnier Hall Auditorium
Regnier Hall , Auditorium
12610 Quivira
Overland Park , Kansas

Brought to you by the KU School of Professional Studies undergraduate degree in Applied Science in Biotechnology, our mission is to entertain the public with movies and refreshments and fan the sparks of creative and critical thinking to life.

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Producers:

  • Amea Chandler
  • Angela Consani
  • Larry Davis
  • Michelle Sherry
  • Richard Sherry

Regulars:

  • Marta Caminero-Santangelo
  • Mary Dykmann
  • Paige & Ryan Kramer
  • Brendan Mattingly
  • Carolyn McKnight
  • Amy Neufeld
  • Ed Riscoe
  • Susan & Joel Waxman
  • Terri Woodburn

Friends:

  • Sophie Bock
  • David Brackey
  • Justin Carroll
  • Cathie Chiccine
  • Melissa & Steve Daggett
  • Joan Gilson
  • Sandy Leppin
  • Kaitlyn Sy