A two-hour video variety show of rare footage and pop culture commentary.
A story is only as good as its villain, so comedian Kevin Maher takes an obsessive look at some of the best and worst super villains. This two-hour multi-media show includes a virtual parade of power-mad perverts, bald villains, cartoon criminals, Satanic weirdoes, wrestling heels and more.
Kevin is joined by co-host Tenebrous Kate (creator of My Dream Date with a Villain) and a diabolical line-up of special guests, including
- Illustrator Becky Munich (“Monster Activity Book”)
- Writer Nick Nadel (truTV, IFC.com)
- Doctor Maureen Mararese
- Filmmaker Paul Murphy (Red Obsession)
- Professor Geoff Klock (“The Future of Comics, The Future of Men”)
All this, plus trivia prizes, lame super-villains and even some V.I.L.F.s
THE OVERNIGHT, a painfully funny take on thirty-something sexual frustration and parenthood.
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, have recently moved to Los Angeles’ Eastside from Seattle. Feeling lost in a new city, they are desperate to find their first new friends. After a chance meeting with Kurt at the neighborhood park, they gladly agree to join family pizza night at the home. But as it gets later and the kids go to bed, the family “playdate” becomes increasingly more revealing and bizarre as the couples begin to open up.
A magazine reporter recounts his travels and conversations with author David Foster Wallace during a promotional book tour.
THE END OF THE TOUR tells the story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter (and novelist) David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace’s groundbreaking epic novel, Infinite Jest. As the days go on, a tenuous yet intense relationship seems to develop between journalist and subject. The two men bob and weave around each other, sharing laughs and also possibly revealing hidden frailties – but it’s never clear how truthful they are being with each other. Ironically, the interview was never published, and five days of audio tapes were packed away in Lipsky’s closet.
AMY, a new documentary on the voice, the fame, and the addictions of the late Amy Winehouse.
From Senna director Asif Kapadia, Amy focuses on the life of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who died on 23 July 2011 at the age of 27, from alcohol intoxication at her home in Camden, North London. The film shows the songwriter’s cut-short life with her early years, major music career, as well as her relationships, paparazzi and downfall with drug and alcohol addiction. It features Winehouse from her early years until her untimely death. The film features fifteen voices from Winehouse’s family & close friends to tell the story and is billed as the singer in her own words. The film shows extensive unseen footage and unheard tracks Winehouse had recorded the previous years before she died.
On July 16, THE DEUCE JOCKEYS contribute to Nitehawk’s ANIMAL ATTACKS! series with the 1984 Aussie freakshow RAZORBACK!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, Bronx Brewery Pale Ale at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
This time it’s no dingo that ate the baby… it’s a giant pig with terrifying tusks!! When his reporter wife goes missing in miles-from-nowhere Australia, our American milquetoast “hero” takes a trip to Terrible Town to find out what happened, and gets more than the usual cold shoulder from the loony locals. Teaming up with a bat-shit brother duo and a no-nonsense naturalist lass, the hunt for horror begins! Surreal scenery straight out of a Dali, violence and vengeance veering into the Unknown, and a scene-chomping monster of mythic proportions; it’s like JAWS on acid!!! From the director of the Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star,” Fleetwood Mac’s “Gypsy,” Duran Duran’s “Rio,” a ton of Elton John videos, the first two HIGHLANDER films and THE SCORPION KING: RISE OF A WARRIOR – Russell Mulcahy! Written for the screen – or screeeaaam – by Aussie horror-hero Everett De Roche! This July – sink your teeth into RAZORBACK!!!
Part of Nitehawk’s THE DEUCE signature series.
Who can survive the vengeful blade of the Golden Swallow in COME DRINK WITH ME? A 35mm presentation!
When bandits make off with a governor’s son and hold him for ransom, the gov. retaliates with the big guns: the deadly Golden Swallow, his deadliest warrior and only daughter. Just as Golden Swallow begins ripping through the bandits holding her brother captive, she’s sidelined by a poison dart and re-habilitated by a local drunk who has his own share of secrets and hazy motives. Considered by many to be one of the best movies to ever come out of Hong Kong, Come Drink With Me elegantly blends elements of dance and martial arts, and was one of the first kung-fu films to feature a woman in the lead role.
Part of Nitehawk’s August KUNG FU THEATER midnite series.
You best protect ya neck, THE FLYING GUILLOTINE is coming for you! A 35mm presentation.
Desperate to cling to power, the Emperor enlists a deadly assassination squad to keep the populace in line and equips them with the deadliest weapon ever conceived of by man: The Flying Guillotine. It’s basically just a hat fitted with a rope, but you don’t want to try this guy on for size, it’ll slice your head clean off from a 100-yards away. When one of the Imperial Guard grows weary of collecting heads for the paranoid regent, he retreats to the country for a quiet life of a farming, but it’s not too long before his past catches up to him and he finds himself a mark of the Emperor’s assassins!
Part of Nitehawk’s August KUNG FU THEATER midnite series.
Shaolin shadowboxing and the Wu Tang sword style. If what you say is true, the SHAOLIN AND WU TANG could be dangerous. A 35mm presentation.
Besides being the namesake film of The Wu-Tang Clan, Shaolin and Wu Tang is a lit piece of dynamite from Hong Kong legend Gordon Liu. The film follows a tense rivalry between two competing schools of kung-fu: Shaolin shadowboxers and Wu Tang swordsmen. Threatened by the level of skill in both schools, a local warlord vows to master both styles of fighting and then force the two schools to destroy one another. It’s Machiavellian twists with a kung-fu grip, bring the ruckus!
Part of Nitehawk’s August KUNG FU THEATER midnite series.
Starring: Sheng Chiang, Chien Sun, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Meng Lo, Pai Wei, Feng Lu
Approaching the end of his life, the ailing master of the secretive Poison Clan sends off his final pupil to discover which of his five previous students uses the clan’s techniques for evil. The problem is, the real identities of the Poison Clan’s members are a closely guarded secret; and each member can only be identified by the animal style reflected on their masks. The hunt becomes an intricate game of hazy motives and shaky alliances, as each of the six kung-fu masters vie to identify and exploit one-another before their own weaknesses can come to light, all leading to several electric clashes in fighting styles.
From Kill Bill to Kung-Fu Panda to Power Rangers, Five Deadly Venoms is a kung-fu film with wide-reaching influence. Though the palate of many Kung-Fu films lean visually on a more bright, hazy side; Five Deadly Venoms is a colorful, vibrant film with a great mystery at its center to boot.
Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe, David Morse
When a decorated Gulf War veteran and his squadron of elite commandos take control of Alcatraz Island, they point a few missiles loaded with the most deadly chemical known to man straight at San Francisco. Their aim? Money, of course. A lot of it. But with the feds unwilling to capitulate to the demands of terrorists, the fate of the city rests in the shaky hands of a desk jockey with an encyclopedic knowledge of dangerous chemicals, and a mysterious (and handsome) British national who’s the only man to ever escape the prison island and live to tell about it.
Together, all they need to do is infiltrate an impenetrable fortress, kill the U.S. military’s best trained soldiers, and disarm a few skin-melting chemical weapons — just another day inside the mind of Michael Bay.
