Starring: Michael Paul Stephenson, George Hardy, Margo Prey, Connie Young, Robert Ormsby, Deborah Reed

When young Joshua (Michael Stephenson) learns that he will be going on vacation with his family to a small town called Nilbog, he protests adamantly. He is warned by the spirit of his deceased grandfather that goblins populate the town. His parents, Michael (George Hardy) and Diana (Margo Prey), dismiss his apprehensions, but soon learn to appreciate their son’s warnings. Guided by his grandfather’s ghost, will Joshua and his family stand a chance in fighting off these evil beings?

Starring: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Josh Brolin

When a cockroach-spread plague threatens to decimate the child population of New York City, evolutionary biologist Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino) and her research associates rig up a species of “Judas” bugs and introduce them into the environment, where they will mimic the diseased roaches and infiltrate their grubby habitats. So far so good … until the bugs keep on evolving and learn to mimic their next prey — humans.

Starring: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola

Our print of The Godfather Part III fell through, so we’ve had to switch format to DCP, which is The Godfather Coda (2020) version of the film

As Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) ages, he finds that being the head of the Corleone crime family isn’t getting any easier. He wants his family out of the Mafia, but the mob kingpin (Eli Wallach) isn’t eager to let one of the most powerful and wealthy families go legit. Making matters even worse is Michael’s nephew, Vincent (Andy Garcia). Not only does Vincent want a piece of the Corleone family’s criminal empire, but he also wants Michael’s daughter, Mary (Sofia Coppola).

Starring: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers

When a retired opera singer leaves her inheritance to her cat, Duchess (Eva Gabor), and three kittens, the woman’s butler drugs the cats and abandons them in the countryside in order to inherit the fortune himself. Lost in unfamiliar territory, Duchess and the kittens meet Thomas O’Malley (Phil Harris), an alley cat willing to help them return to their home in Paris. They meet several kooky characters along the way, including two English geese and an alley cat jazz band.

Starring: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin

The Future of Film is Female continues its year-long celebration of 90s cinema with a screening of Allison Anders GAS FOOD LODGING. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Welcome to a showcase of some of our favorite animated shorts from the Nitehawk Shorts Festival from 2022 – 2025. These shorts range from silly to sexy to surreal, and everywhere in between, and beautifully showcase the work of up and coming animators from all over the world. The screening will be followed by a panel with some of the animators of these shorts.

Pussy Love Linda Krauss
Germany 2023 4 min. English
Hey Puss! Still playing hard to get? Let me be your pussycat.

Are You Still Watching? Tali Polichtuk, Kitty Chrystal
Australia 2021 6 min. English
During one of Melbourne’s COVID-19 lockdowns, Jamie keeps themselves entertained bingeing on queer film and TV. What begins as mere escapism turns sensual when they start having delusions involving their favourite queer characters.

Buzzkill Peter Ahern
U.S. 2022 5 min. English
Tune in to the blind date woes of Rick and Becky.

Sierra Sander Joon
Estonia 2022 16 min.
A boy accidentally turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director’s childhood.

TRICHOTILLOMANIA! Kelly Schiesswohl
U.S. 2020 – 2021 4 min. English
The story of one girl’s Google-search-gone-wrong to find out why she can’t stop pulling out her hair.

Unbearable Stephen Sues
U.S. 2024 7 min. English
A bear struggling with insomnia during hibernation season seeks help from a rabbit hypnotist, who uses unorthodox methods to get to the root of the problem.

Ninety-five Senses Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess
U.S. 2022 13 min. English
An ode to the five senses delivered by a death-row inmate (Tim Blake Nelson) with little time left to enjoy them.

PAWN SHOP Amouri Edwards
U.S. 2024 4 min. English
A magical pawn shop owner trades enchanted objects that alter the state of three unsuspecting customers – an old wise lady, a little boy and a vain man.

Nuevo Rico Kristian Mercado
Puerto Rico, U.S. 2020 16 min. English, Spanish
A brother and sister stumble upon a celestial secret that changes their lives forever and propels them into Reggaetón stardom, but they soon discover that their newfound fame comes at a deep price.

Launch Leah Shore
U.S. 2021 3 min. English
“Thirty-five years after astronauts placed reflectors on the lunar surface, scientists have used these devices to test Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. The findings may help to explain physical laws of the universe.” – Nasa

Night Ahmad Saleh
Germany, Qatar, Palestine, Jordan 2021 16 min. Arabic
Night has to trick the mother of a missing child into sleeping in order to save her soul.

Flutz Ryan McCown
U.S. 2022 8 min. English
A rivalry between two figure skaters. And a witch.

For more animated Nitehawk Shorts alumni, check out screenings of FANTASTIC PLANET and THE TIME MASTERS.

Warning: Images are not from the movies we’re showing. Trust us, you can’t imagine what we’re showing!

Guest hosted by programmer/editor Clyde Folley

Stylish as the as the 70’s and mean as a snake, this flick is the diseased mutant love child of Orson Welles’ LADY FROM SHANGHAI and his TOUCH OF EVIL, all about a corrupt cop trying to keep it together during one long, dark, horrible, blood-slimed night. A haunted house full of unseen gangland bosses and spooky headless corpses, everyone thinks they’re king of the world because they don’t know any better, but the more they learn, the more they freak, and as corpses and bags of money start appearing in the wrong places it’s clear that they’re all just rats in a sack, tearing each other up while someone on the outside shakes them up and down. The question is who? This is film noir at its most stressed-out.

Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Winslet, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Cliff Curtis, Sam Worthington

With Avatar: Fire and Ash, James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and the Sully family.

Starring: Jason Bateman, Quinta Brunson, Idris Elba, Fortune Feimster, Ginnifer Goodwin, Maurice LaMarche, Ke Huy Quan, Jean Reno, Shakira, Jenny Slate

In Zootopia 2, detectives Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who arrives in Zootopia and turns the mammal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.