As San Antonio settles into its usual 100-degree summer days, several venues in the city offer entertaining respite with evening outdoor movies.
Most events are free and family-friendly, with a city-sponsored pet-friendly option as well.
Slab Cinema
One way to beat the heat would be San Antonio stalwart Slab Cinema’s Movies In The Pool and Float and Flick series.
Slab’s portable inflatable movie screens appear at parks throughout the area on a regular basis, but special poolside pictures at San Pedro Springs Park and Pickrell Park Pool in Schertz offer the bonus of a cooling dip along with cinematic adventures.
Appropriately for Float and Flick at the Pickrell Park Pool location, The Little Mermaid runs June 22 and another waterworld adventure, Moana, unspools July 13.
Also in Schertz, Slab Cinema presents Trolls Band Together June 7 at Heritage Oaks Park, The Super Mario Brothers Movie at Ashley Park June 14, Minions: The Rise of Gru July 26 at Cypress Point Park and The Nightmare Before Christmas on October 18 at Wendy Swan Memorial Park.
The Movies in the Pool at San Pedro Springs Park season started June 1 with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Check the Slab Cinema Facebook page to find out when the next showings will be.
The full Slab Cinema schedule, featuring events in Bulverde, at Civic Park, Travis Park, Rodriguez Park, Bullis Park and other locations, is available online, and includes many of the movies listed here.
Bexar County
Bexar County hosts free Friday Night Flicks in the Park each week through the summer. Movies start at dusk, concessions are available and pets on leash are allowed as moviegoing companions.
On June 7 at Pletz Park, see Disney and Pixar’s Up, the Day of the Dead-themed Coco plays June 21 at Rodriguez Park, The Sandlot plays July 12 at Bullis Park, and the season ends July 26 with Guardians of the Galaxy at Woodlake Park.
Hemisfair
Hemisfair hosts free Movies by Moonlight each Tuesday in June, touting Downtown Tuesday free parking and resident restaurants offering to-go menu items as bonuses.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles runs June 11, Clueless runs June 18 and The Goonies runs June 25.
More information on the movie series and other entertainment throughout the park is available on the Hemisfair website.
Tobin Center
The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts makes use of its outdoor environs with the annual H-E-B Cinema on Will’s Plaza monthly movie series.
The series starts June 14 with Hairspray, followed by Forrest Gump July 13, The Lego Movie on Aug. 9 and Into the Woods on Sept. 13.
Movies for the fall season include Maleficent on Oct. 11, The Incredibles on Nov. 8 and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms on Dec. 13.
Further information on the films, concessions and parking is available on the Tobin Center website.
Briscoe
The Briscoe Western Art Museum returns with its outdoor Summer Film Series in the Jack Guenther Pavilion.
Tickets are free with regular museum admission or museum membership and include complimentary popcorn, candy and beverages.
Giant starts the series in a big way June 16, with a special giveaway: all attendees will be eligible to win a stay at the historic Hotel Paisano in Marfa, where the movie’s stars stayed during filming in 1955, as well as tickets to the Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine.
News of the World, based on the novel by Texas author Paulette Jiles, runs July 21. An incentive to become a Briscoe member is included: all members who attend receive a free copy of the book.
Director Martin Scorcese’s recent epic Killers of the Flower Moon unspools Aug. 18. Attendees who bring three children’s books to donate to the Book Buddies program of the SAISD Foundation will receive a free copy of the non-fiction book that inspired the film.
Information on the films is included on the Briscoe Museum’s online events page.
Mission Marquee
The City of San Antonio World Heritage Office joins in the summer film fun with its annual Outdoor Family Film Series at Mission Marquee Plaza.
The free, pet-friendly series begins June 16 with Kung fu film Shang–Chi & The Legend of The Ten Rings.
Boxing classic Rocky runs June 20, followed by the animated Elemental on July 6, and 1980s classic Sixteen Candles on July 16. The Marvel Universe descends on the plaza with Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 3 on July 20, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem runs Aug. 3, Pretty In Pink Aug. 15, the new Wonka on Aug. 17 and Stand and Deliver starring Edward James Olmos on Sept. 19 to close out the summer season.
The Mission Marquee film series runs through November, with the full schedule available here.
