Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Ron Silver, Ben Cross, Lisa Eilbacher, Tony Plana, Al Waxman

Co-hosted by programmer Clyde Folley

When U.S. senators start violently blowing up, top bomb diffuser Danny O’Neill (Pierce Brosnan) determines that terrorists are utilizing a mysterious liquid that detonates when ingested. All the while he is grappling with his crumbling marriage, with rumors that estranged wife Terry (Lisa Eilbacher) is involved with Senator Frank Traveres (Ron Silver), who is next on the target list.

Intended to be a big summer blockbuster that was ultimately relegated to cable television, Live Wire makes good use of its explosive premise (sandwiched, as it were, between two Scanners sequels for director Christian Duguay) with wild blasts galore. Watching someone drink a glass of water has never been so suspenseful!

Starring: Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auli’i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney

From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic, Mean Girls. New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Christopher Briney), she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis (Auli’i Cravalho) and Damian (Jaquel Spivey), she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.

Starring: Suzanna Love, Robert Walker Jr, Jeff Winchester, Clement von Franckenstein

March Madness begins in full swing on The Deuce with perennial fave, “The Boogeyman” Ulli Lommel, and his freakiest whacky-whatsit: OLIVIA aka A TASTE OF SIN aka WRONG IS RIGHT aka DOUBLE JEOPARDY! By any name… bizarre!! With beauty, muse, collaborator, and bride (and Pratt Institute founder descendant/DuPont heiress) Suzanna Love (swoony!) in her meatiest, most mesmerizing role as the titular temptress: Olivia, a London lass living a dangerously dual life (unbeknownst to her louse of a husband), who meets ‘merican architect under falling-down London Bridge… Mooing and cooing… love found and lost in the London fog… to be rekindled under the self-same London Bridge recently re-assembled in… Arizona!??! And is this Jenny – the fetching bespectacled broad with the very clearly ‘merican accent, leading tours of Lake Havasau rental properties around the aforementioned moved bridge – actually the aforementioned loved – and lost – Olivia?!!? And what about that aforementioned dip-shit of a husband – is he dead or what?? Oh, the mysteries and mind-spinning-mania… the minute pleasures that are OLIVIA!

For a movie sprung from the singular idea of London Bridge having been moved to the ‘merican Southwest – this could possibly be Lommel and Love’s most assured, “accomplished” film – rich in character and performance – beautifully composed, scored, and shot (by approximately 5 cinematographers!!) – a heady mix of giallo, psychosexual thriller, melodrama, and surrealist horror that more than likely left the lunk-head snifflers of the Selwyn Theatre scratching their heads, wondering what the heckle they’d just witnessed… The Deuce will scratch that itch!!

Starring: Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Falk, Michael Lerner, Julian Sands, Van Dyke Parks

Feel the Love of The Deuce wafting in the air this February with the fabulously daffy Valentine-y laffy-taffy confection of confounding cockamamie: VIBES!!

Sylvia Pickle (Lauper) and Nick Deezy (Goldblum) are head-butting NYC ESP-ers embroiled in an Ecuadorian mis-adventure with mythic ramifications!! Hired by everyone’s fave con-man Colombo – née Peter Falk – for a false lost-son search, they find themselves up against gangsters, evil doctors, and maybe even E.T.s (!!) in a race to uncover the storied “Lost City of Gold”… and love dost bloom amongst the gold!! Does Deezy get in a Pickle?? You better believe it!!

Surprisingly, Cyndi Lauper’s single starring role – “surprisingly” in light of how genuinely genius the Queens kewpie proves herself to be in this funkily freaky pasta-fazool of a film… It’s a jaw-dropping disaster that it didn’t lead to more parts for the pixie!! At least the girls at Cine 42 got to have some fun while their nerd-o boyfriends waited with bated breath for the co-feature Midnight Run to begin…

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You demanded it! Subway Cinema teams up with the Nitehawk Prospect Park to present Sundays on Fire, unleashing an action classic in 35mm from the golden age of Hong Kong cinema on the second Sunday of every month!

Kicking off our THIRD year in a row, this modern classic from the late ‘90s redefines the action movie. With its moog-inflected soundtrack, impeccable fashion sense, and stylized violence, it’s an exploration of the world of work, presented so intensely that everything else — dialogue, plot, character — boils away, leaving a strong, astringent residue. It’s movie as haiku, full of austere shoot-outs, precise tracking shots, and complex, wordless exchanges. We’re not announcing the title until it appears onscreen because it’s more fun that way, but this Zen garden of violence is meticulously arranged, raked, styled, and set.

Starring: Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton, Ian McNeice, Patrick Malahide, Lisa Jakub, Michael Lerner

Over twenty five years before she would heroically lead the charge for the SAG strike, Fran Drescher starred as Joy Miller, a beautician who accidentally lands a gig in a made-up Eastern European country as a teacher for the dictator’s children. There her New Yorker brassiness clashes with the gruff leader Boris Pochenko (Timothy Dalton), who finds her meddling with the hardworking citizens (she urges them to unionize!) and her indulgence of his kids to be disruptive to his authoritarian agenda.

Coiffed and colorfully dressed not unlike her famed TV persona Fran Fine in The Nanny, Drescher is effectively hilarious, making The Beautician and the Beast a delightfully irreverent 90s version of The Sound of Music. This movie is way better than it has any right to be, and ages rather well!

Starring: Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo, Benicio del Toro

A troubled salesman who peddles knives, Gil Renard (Robert De Niro) has a volatile personality, which has resulted in divorce and a strained relationship with his young son. The one thing that Renard cares passionately about is baseball, particularly the San Francisco Giants and the team’s newest recruit, Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes). As Renard’s personal life continues to crumble, he begins obsessively tracking Rayburn, leading to kidnapping and even murder.

Starring: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano

When Eddie Moscone (Joe Pantoliano) hires tight-lipped bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) to locate a mob accountant named “The Duke” (Charles Grodin) and bring him to L.A., Eddie tells Jack that the job will be simple, or a “midnight run.” But when Jack finds The Duke, the FBI and the mob are anxious to get their hands on him. In a cross-country chase, Jack must evade the authorities, hide from the mob and prevent The Duke’s erratic personality from driving him mad.

Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling

Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is a private detective contracted by Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to track down the iconic singer Johnny Favorite. However, everybody that Angel questions about Favorite seems to meet a tragic demise. Eventually the trail leads Angel to New Orleans where he learns that Favorite had dabbled in the black arts. As Favorite’s whereabouts and true identity become clear, Angel learns that being hired by Cyphre was not a random choice.