Starring: Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick

In the not too distant future, strange goings-on from outer space, known as ‘phases,’ alter the Earth’s entire population of ants. Operating as a kind of hive mind, the ants begin building geometric towers in the Arizona desert and act aggressively towards the humans living there. A team of scientists venture out to investigate the super smart ants, only to discover that the insects have some big plans for mankind and the team unwittingly scored themselves front row seats.

A lonely college freshman’s life is turned upside down by her impetuous, adventurous soon-to-be stepsister in MISTRESS AMERICA.

Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Mistress America is a comedy about dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift families, and cat-stealing.

Northside Film presents TIRED MOONLIGHT as part of its 2015 festival.

Combustible dreams fail to ignite as lonely, middle-aged, Dawn is confronted by lost love in a glorified-pit-stop town. Pitting grand landscapes against dinners of fried chicken and the roar of V8 engines on Saturday nights, TIRED MOONLIGHT wanders through solitaire games (always won), secrets lost in cavernous hearts and the fifty miles of bad road that always gets you home.

Northside Film presents THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE as part of its 2015 festival.

Suspecting that those around him are actually malevolent shape-shifters, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.

Northside Film presents THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT as part of its 2015 festival.

A psychological thriller based on the notorious true story, Billy Crudup stars as Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days.

Winner of two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including Best Screenplay, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, The Stanford Prison Experiment is a chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment.

Northside Film presents EDEN as part of its 2015 festival.

Eden is an affecting trip into the 90s Parisian electronic dance movement experienced through the eyes of DJ groups Cheers and Daft Punk who, together with their friends, plunge into the ephemeral nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.

Northside Film presents DEVIL TOWN as part of its 2015 festival.

A young woman’s sets out on a quest through Brooklyn to find her missing sister, enlisting the help of a motley crew of New York weirdos.

Northside Film presents ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER as part of its 2015 festival.

Director Onur Tukel will be in attendance for a Q&A

In Abby Singer/Songwriter, Jamie Block – a divorced stockbroker has-been who was once an indie-rock star signed to Capitol Records – meets Onur Tukel, a hapless middle-aged filmmaker who has just moved to Brooklyn. In this coming-of-middle-age story, Onur persuades Block to sink his money into a series of increasingly absurd music videos to promote his comeback as a musician. Desperate to impress his two beautiful, nonchalant teenaged daughters, Block casts them in the videos, which then play on multiple screens throughout this hallucinatory film. As tension mounts between director and musician Block’s bank account and grip on reality dwindle.

Jeff Goldblum is a hapless insomniac caught up in a jewel-heist involving a beautiful woman, the Shah of Iran and David Bowie. A 35mm presentation.

In John Landis’ tinsel-town caper INTO THE NIGHT, Jeff Goldblum plays a baggy-eyed depressive who just found out that his wife is cheating on him. With little else to do, he ventures off aimlessly into the Los Angeles twilight and has a run in with a beautiful jewel smuggler who snags him in her plot make off with the Shah of Iran’s emeralds.

Mostly known for its B.B. King soundtrack (RIP!), Into the Night also boasts a murderer’s row of Hollywood cameos, keep an eye out for the likes of: David Cronenberg, Jonathan Demme, Amy Heckerling, Lawrence Kasdan, Don Siegel, Jim Henson and more.

Who will survive the attack of the giant, radioactive ants in THEM!?

Fear of nuclear winter wasn’t the only modern anxiety ushered in by the atomic age, there was also fear of radiation and what these glowing mystery particles might do to poor, innocent mother Earth. Like… say, transform a colony of ants into eight-foot-long killing machines. Bursting from the nuclear testing grounds of New Mexico, the giant ants of Them! go on the war path against the United States of America, terrorizing our women and killing our best and brightest gas station attendants. When the ants establish a colony right below Los Angeles, only our boys in uniform can save us from the terror, horror, excitement and mystery of Them!

Part of Nitehawk’s July ANIMAL ATTACKS! midnite and brunch series.