Starring: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay

Escaped convicts (Jon Voight, Eric Roberts) and a stowaway girl (Rebecca De Mornay) ride an unmanned diesel speeding out of control through Alaska.

This January THE DEUCE Film Series rolls into the New Year and the Liberty Theatre with Vernon Zimmerman’s 1972 raucous roller-derby riot-act: THE UNHOLY ROLLERS!

Plus: Prizes and surprises, Bronx Brewery Pale Ale at the after-party, and music by Maestro Jeff! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

Welcome to a world where Women rule – in and out of the rink – and Men are mostly dinks!! Claudia Jennings busts out of the boredom of barely livin’ and beats her way to the top of the roller-derby-dame-game … leaving broken bones, broken hearts, and a bounty of bruises in her wake on her rise – and sometimes falls – to “stardom”!!… Jammers, scammers, and a bevy of boisterous ball-bustin’ ladies… double dates and double crosses… the seduction of subculture… Rebels on wheels!!

Vernon Zimmerman’s zippy quickie for Roger Corman and American International Pictures has more guts and gusto than a barrelful of Drew Barrymore’s big-budget ‘Whip It’ bomb rip-off … with editing “supervision” by Martin Scorsese! Avengers for life!!!

All DEUCE screenings are 35mm presentations.
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Deuce Jockeys: Jeff, Joe, Andy, Max, Andrew
Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Bronx Brewery.

JOY is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right.

Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce. Allies become adversaries and adversaries become allies, both inside and outside the family, as Joy’s inner life and fierce imagination carry her through the storm she faces. Like David O. Russell’s previous films, Joy defies genre to tell a story of family, loyalty, and love.

It bears repeating…This Groundhog’s Day, Nitehawk Cinema and Free Will Brewing Company present a GROUNDHOG DAY FILM FEAST you’ll want to experience over and over again!

Talk about deja-vu. A weatherman (Bill Murray) must experience the same day over and over again until he gets it right. One could expect that Groundhog Day would be an exercise in tedium. Fortunately, and we can all thank the comedic god that is Bill Murray for this, the film is a hilarious joy ride through the peaks and valleys of life. Even the greatest days are best left to live only once but feeling doomed in the repetitive cycle of the same is enough to drive anyone nuts. Trapped in time, Phil Connors eventually navigates his way through the Groundhog Day(s) and gets to the other side.

As always, the best part is that each dish will be served at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!

Nitehawk’s repetitive menu for Groundhog Day will pair an evolving pork dish with beers from Free Will Brewing Company. Our dishes will transform along with Bill Murray’s character and will also touch upon the eating establishments (the B&B, diner, restaurant, hotel bar) he frequented over his numerous returns. Nitehawk’s repetitive menu for Groundhog’s Day will pair an evolving pork dish with beers from Free Will Brewing Company. Our dishes will transform along with Bill Murray’s character and will also touch upon the eating establishments (the B&B, diner, restaurant, hotel bar) he frequented over his numerous returns…

MENU

“PITTSBURGH CHIPPED HAM SLIDER”
sweet chili sauce, house-made potato chips
Beer Pairing: Free Will Brewing Company Kolsch

“PUNXSUTAWNEY PULLED PORK SANDWICH”
cabbage slaw, salt and vinegar potato gaufrette
Beer Pairing: Free Will Brewing Company Kragle IPA

“PENNSYLVANIA PORK”
sauerkraut, smoked kielbasa, beer mustard
Beer Pairing: Free Will Brewing Company Olly – Oud Bruin style sour

“GROUND HOG WELLINGTON”
pork tenderloin, ground pork, duxelle, puff pastry, crispy prosciutto
Beer Pairing: Free Will Brewing Company Techno IPA

“DAY 12,394”
maple soft serve, bacon lardons
Beer Pairing: Free Will Brewing Company COB

Menu subject to change. No substitutions.

This Valentine’s Day, Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents the infamous tale of LOLITA (a 35mm presentation).

The screening will have prize giveaways of Lolita shirts & gift certificates courtesy of our partner Out of Print along with an inspired cocktail and some heart-shaped goodies!

Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic vision of Vladimir Nabokov’s book Lolita (who also wrote the screenplay) may be an unconventional love story for Valentine’s Day but the film’s palpable depiction of obsession is eternally alluring…and scandalizing! After taking a room to let with a single mother, Prof. Humbert Humbert falls inappropriately in love and lust with her young teenage daughter Lolita. Lolita teases and takes advantage of his affections with cruelty as their dysfunctional relationship continues throughout the years. Love is never simple.

Happy Valentine’s Day from Booze & Books!

Come spend a romantic brunch with your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day…Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA presents THE ARTIST with a live score by Reel Orchestrette!

Silent movie stars, talkie pictures, two lovers, and one cute dog make up the Best Picture Academy Award Winner, The Artist. In the 1920s, actor George Valentin is a bona fide matinee idol with many adoring fans. While working on his latest film, George finds himself falling in love with an ingenue named Peppy Miller and, what’s more, it seems Peppy feels the same way. But George is reluctant to cheat on his wife with the beautiful young actress. The growing popularity of sound in movies further separates the potential lovers, as George’s career begins to fade while Peppy’s star rises.

Reel Orchestrette (Bradford Reed & Geoff Gersh) is dedicated to the art of live musical accompaniment to silent films. Reed & Gersh have been collaborating together for almost 20 years, they formed Reel Orchestrette in 2012.

Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA starts the new year off with a GREASE sing-a-long and live score by El Chico Blanco!

Warm up those vocal cords, a Grease sing-a-long is the one that you want!

Grease is a musical about teens in love in the 50’s! It’s California, 1959 and greaser Danny Zuko and Australian Sandy Olsson are in love. They spend time at the beach, but when they go back to school, what either of them don’t know is that they both now attend Rydell High. What happens next? Singing and dancing, of course! So go back to high school with Pink Lady Sandy (Olivia Newton-John), leader of the bad-boy T-Birds, Danny (John Travolta), and a rockin’ & rollin’ all-star cast. But this time, revisit by indulging in the fact you know every, single word to the songs and SING-A-LONG to a live band!

About El Chico Blanco: Instrumental Rock + Metal, is a band of a different color. Keys (Steve Blanco), Guitar (Geoff Gersh), & Drums (Anthony ‘Chico’ Riscica) make for an interesting sound in the heaviest of metal jams or a free-form improvisation. Combining elements of Rock, Metal, Ambient, Electro, Funk, & Improv, the group stays on course towards a steady stream of music, no matter the size of the room or venue.

Comedian Kevin Maher visits the far-reaches of the galaxy, where life is cheap and the special effects are cheaper. This 2-hour cosmic adventure features multi-media presentations celebrating the sub-genre. With co-hosts Alex Robinson & Pete the Retailer (from the STAR WARS MINUTE podcast.) Expect lots of laser blasts, obnoxious robots, galactic melodrama and STAR WARS rip-offs. 

Plus Special Guests:
Stuart Wellington (The Flophouse podcast) 
Jenn Northington (Riot New Media) 
Crystal Beth (MTV, StarWarsMinute)  
M. Sweeney Lawless (Euphobia comedy troupe) 
Chris Radtke (Geek.com)

Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR series presents a special one nite screening of DIXIELAND, featuring a Q&A after the screening with director Hank Bedford, moderated by Bennett Miller.

Dixieland is an intoxicating portrait of life and love on the margins. Fresh out of prison, Kermit (Zylka), a mostly good kid mixed up with local drug dealers, returns home to his rural Mississippi trailer park. As he struggles to keep his nose clean, he falls for Rachel (Keough), his sultry neighbor who’s turned to dancing in a club to support her sick mother. Determined to overcome their inauspicious circumstances, the star-crossed lovers make a desperate, last-ditch effort to escape their dead-end town—but soon find themselves ensnared in a cycle of crime.

Starring: Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Chris Tucker, Michael Bowen, Michael Keaton

In Tarantino’s adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s 1992 novel Rum Punch, we get the battle of the wits in Jackie Brown where a flight attendant, an arms dealer, an FBI agent, a detective, a bail bondsman, and a beach bunny are all out for that bag of half a million dollars. Things kick off when flight attendant Jackie Brown gets busted from smuggling money for her boss and is faced with a decision that will either set her free or end her life. Roger Ebert said in his review that it was, “a new film in a new style, and it evokes the particular magic of Elmore Leonard–who elevates the crime novel to a form of sociological comedy.” That, plus the magic of Pam Grier, Robert Forster, and Tarantino muse Samuel L. Jackson, pretty much define this Pulp Fiction follow up.