vickers theatre

The Vickers is a fun cinema that thrives on showing indie and art style films. A small auditorium with tables in the rear, the owner describes the feature film in person at the foot of the stage just prior to showing. They have great home made popcorn and all the goodies you might expect to snack on. If they had beer and wine the experience would be complete. This is a very fun, nice slice of Americana that is becoming very hard to find. Owned and operated by film buffs.

Vickers and Acorn Theatres are both great but come early and check out the neat galleries and antique stores on Elm Street. Park once and do it all! We like the shops reFIND and Trilogy and the charming home store (that used to be the train station) Blais.

We try to get to the movies at The Vickers Theatre every time we get to Harbor Country in SW Michigan. This theatre shows art movies and interesting titles frequently in addition to the more "popular" movies. The theatre has been lovingly restored. It's truly a local gem of a place. A highlight for us is that the theatre manager and owner gives an overview of the movie before the show. He always includes interesting factoids about key actors in the film and sometimes little known bits of information about the film itself. His questions to test the audience knowledge are always fun, too.

A true gem in the little town of Three Oaks! The independent, foreign and art films can be thought-provoking and inspiring. The Vicker's Theater along with Three Oaks Village are both truly the cultural center of our Harbor Country communities. A great way to spend a few hours!

First time visit and we loved it! Will definitely make it a regular movie destination. Art on the walls, cozy tables for a date night and great movies, what more can you ask for!

Intimate theater with comfy seats, great buttered popcorn and the best selection of film around. Operated by a great team of friendly, knowledgeable people, offering excellent movie discussions.

The Vickers is a renovated 1920's movie theater that seats about 150 people, screens everything from first run to international films and sells home style popcorn with real butter. They publish a monthly newsletter with critical reviews of the upcoming shows and start each screening with some commentary and a pop quiz featuring gift certificates donated by local merchants. A definite must-try for any Harbor Country visitor in downtown Three Oaks and deservingly beloved by us locals. Have lunch or dinner at Nelson's, the Pleasant House, the Elm Street Bistro, Viola's or Froehlichs for a memorable outing in a charming and vibrant small town. Highly recommended.

Loved this place. Had a wonderful time seeing CHEF with my husband after cocktails at Journeyman Distillery. The owner of the theater treated the movie to an opening monologue as a set up for the film. He was fantastic! Full house. So nice to see these types of establishments still in business - and thriving!

Great place to watch foreign and domestic art films. The building itself is intimate, and a comfortable place to spend an evening.

Nestled on the rim of Michigan's Harbor Country, in the trendy town of Three Oaks, lies a particular treasure to both the locals and visiting Chicagoans. They are the folks looking for more than the ordinary in entertainment. They find it at The Vickers Theatre, in a building that in one form or another has been showing movies on and off since 1911. Elegantly restored and refurbished in 1998 by locals Jon and Jennifer Vickers, the theatre began to feature independents, documentaries, foreign and foreign language films, with the occasional major film release. The theatre became an immediate success. Discovering a number of fine artists in their audiences, the couple added regular displays of their works in the lobby and balcony for patrons to peruse. The Vickers changed hands again in 2012, with present owners Bill Lindblom and Joe and Judy Scully vowing to continue the format. And in addition to providing the best films available, and the galleries, the owners decided to host film discussions, most recently featuring retired film professor Judd Chesler, who taught film for 40 years at Purdue U. and Columbia College. He was as anxious to share his knowledge as viewers were to enjoy it and a beautiful symbiotic relationship was born. When showing a documentary about Rita Chiarelli, Queen of the Blues in Canada, Bill realized that many in the audiences were ignorant of the importance of this woman, who was famous for bringing her music to Louisiana State Maximum Security Prison in 2012 and singing and making music with inmates serving life sentences. She'd wanted to visit the home of the birth of the blues and chose a unique way to realize her dream. So began the now traditional pre-film introductions, which considerably enhance the movie experience for most. As an added treat.....he poses a trivia question, which necessitates a lot of thought on his part because he's looking for one answer, not twenty. He usually finds his trivia expert and awards the prize of a large house popcorn using real butter, not the usual crankcase oil. If Bill ever tuns out of trivia questions, he might ask the name of another theater that so indulges its audiences. Just to prove how popular this theatre is, while I was there last week, I heard a young couple telling Bill that they just drove in from Kyle, Michigan....a three hour drive. When I gasped at that, I was told that some time back when The Girl Who Played With Fire was showing, a patron was on the phone with a friend in Cleveland who was a fan of the series and hadn't been able to see it. The friend jumped in his car....in Cleveland....and arrived just minutes before the last performance. Now that's the kind of power this little engine generates. As Roger Ebert (a onetime summertime local) used to say, "Save me a seat in the balcony."

On of the reasons we moved to Three Oaks was the vickers, that was about 10 years ago and still like the the town and theater as much as when we moved here

On our trip to New Buffalo, we found this little theatre. They show classic and art films and have restored the inside. We sat up in the balcony in a private booth with a table, great for our popcorn with real butter and drinks. It was such a fun experience, the whole setting is very intimate and we felt like we were in a private screening, not in a noisy, crowded theatre like AMC.