Starring: Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero, Juliette Danielle
Johnny is a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored of him and decides to seduce Johnny’s best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again.
Starring: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Edward Asner, Mary Steenburgen, Zooey Deschanel
Elf is a mix between the misfit story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and the “believe in miracles” story of A Christmas Carol but with the added joy of Will Ferrell in an elf suit running around New York City. Starring as Buddy, one year he crawls into Santa’s toy bag as a baby and gets whisked off to the North Pole where he gets raised as an elf. Of course, he’s a tall fish out of water and eventually decides to head to his birthplace to meet his father. What he finds is a family and a city who have forgotten the meaning of Christmas so he sets out to save the holiday!
Starring: Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon, Ian Petrella
While Bob Clark holds a special place in our dark hearts for his inventive horror flicks like the scary treat Black Christmas, it’s his contribution to the American canon of holiday classics with A Christmas Story that solidifies him as one of our favorite directors. Quirky family dynamics, a leg lamp, a bunny suit, bullying, swear words and anorexia are all involved in one boy’s quest for a Red Ryder B.B. gun in the 1940s. With such sincerity and deep humor, make a switch from watching this on television this year and see it on the big screen with your Nitehawk family!
Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson
When die hard New Yorker (and NYPD officer) John McClane’s visit to his estranged family in Los Angeles gets botched thanks to some German terrorists invading a holiday office party, he doesn’t hide under the tree… he saves the day! In bare feet and armed with a slew of wisecracks, McClane navigates the hostage-zone of Nakatomi Plaza like he owns the joint as he saves lives, kills bad guys, outsmarts the local authorities and shows Hans Gruber (along with his wife) who is boss. Never before has an East Coast/West Coast bond been so strong!
Starring: Steve Martin, John Candy, Kevin Bacon, Michael McKean, Laila Robins
It’s a few days before Thanksgiving and Windy City ad-man Neal Page is stuck in New York for the world’s most pointless marketing meeting. With a holiday flight to catch, Neal looks forward to spending time with his family in just a few short hours. It was supposed to be easy. He wasn’t counting on a blizzard sending his flight to Kansas, and he definitely wasn’t counting on meeting chatty shower curtain ring salesman Del Griffith, his new partner in navigating the holiday hell of Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horror that seems to be only a few steps behind.
Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Carol Kane, Bob Goldthwait, David Johansen, Robert Mitchum, John Forsythe, Alfre Woodard
Charles Dickens’ classic tale A Christmas Carol has seen numerous adaptations but none are as darkly strange as the Bill Murray helmed Scrooged. As Frank Cross, he plays a television station executive known as much for his callousness and cruelty as for his money-making programming. This Christmas he’s in for a real life lesson. On the eve (Christmas Eve) of hosting a live broadcast of A Christmas Carol, Cross is visited by three ghosts who, well, you know the story…
On 27th July 1890 a gaunt figure stumbled down a drowsy high street at twilight in the small French country town of Auvers.
The man was carrying nothing; his hands clasped to a fresh bullet wound leaking blood from his belly.
This was Vincent van Gogh, then a little known artist; now the most famous artist in the world.
His tragic death has long been known, what has remained a mystery is how and why he came to be shot.
Loving Vincent tells that story.
Bia, Michele, Mariana and Renata are a clique of affluent high school girls. They waste away their days wandering the fields between the vertigo-inducing high rises in Barra da Tijuca, an affluent new neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Both privileged and abandoned by busy parents, the girls spend most of their time together. When a wave of murders begins to terrorize the neighborhood, the girls develop a morbid curiosity with the victims – and lines separating life, desire and death begins to break down.
Blending coming-of-age with slow-burning horror, partly inspired by the 1980s teen slasher genre, Kill Me Please is a disturbing and funny dive into teenage sexuality, spirituality, loneliness and fragility – as well as an ambitious feature debut by a young and promising Brazilian director, Anita Rocha da Silveira.
Winner of the Best Director (Fiction) and Best Actress award, given to Valentina Herszage, at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, KILL ME PLEASE was also an official selection at SXSW, Venice and New Directors / New Films film festivals.
GET OUT is a new speculative thriller featuring a young African-American man who visits his white girlfriend’s family estate and becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation.
Now that Chris and his girlfriend Rose have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with the family. At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined. Equal parts gripping thriller and provocative commentary, Get Out is written and directed by Jordan Peele (Key and Peele).
