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The Secret Life Of Pets

Starring: Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Albert Brooks, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Coogan

Max is a spoiled terrier who enjoys a comfortable life in a New York building until his owner adopts Duke, a giant and unruly canine. During their walk outside, they encounter a group of ferocious alley cats and wind up in a truck that’s bound for the pound. Luckily, a rebellious bunny named Snowball swoops in to save the doggy duo from captivity. In exchange, Snowball demands that Max and Duke join his gang of abandoned pets on a mission against the humans who’ve done them wrong.

Gowanus Current

Decades of industrial waste and raw sewage have turned Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal into one of the nation’s most toxic bodies of water. The arrival of a billion dollar EPA cleanup and a massive city-led rezoning herald a new era, but what’s of value in a neighborhood and who gets to decide?

Shot over the course of ten years, Gowanus Current employs a strictly observational direct-cinema approach to examine the convictions of this diverse community and the textures of its landscape. A documentary portrait of activism and its limits, this is urgent civic cinema exploring the conflict engendered by a housing crisis, income inequality and a changing climate.

“Gowanus, where aromas of sewage and sulfur and burning rubber waft across streets lined with low-slung warehouses, is now at the center of a fight over the future of New York City.” – The New York Times, April 9, 2021

The Sign of the Cross

Starring: Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton

Hosted by Caroline Golum and Cristina Cacioppo. Followed by an afterparty in Trees Lounge with a DJ set of pre-code era tunes from Owen Kline plus our signature cocktail special “Blonde in Hell.”

Cecil B. DeMille’s The Sign of the Cross is one of the most notorious spectacles of the pre-Code era, blending religious melodrama with lush, barely veiled decadence. Openly reveling in Rome’s sensual excess, DeMille fills the screen with opulent baths, languid banquets, and orgiastic court entertainments meant to show the moral rot of pagan Rome. With Charles Laughton as a yawning, sadistic Emperor Nero (often flanked by his scantily clad boy toy) and Claudette Colbert as the conniving Empress Poppea, the movie is full of provocative imagery, climaxing with a Colosseum scene that manages to be outrageous without the aid of CGI.

Sundays on Fire: Secret Hong Kong 35mm Feature

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

Last month we showed the very last Shaw Brothers movie ever made, this month we come at you hard with a late-period Shaw Bros flick that’s a jittering, juddering tornado of action. With a cast of second string stalwarts and THREE action choreographers, it’s the work of a director at the top of his early 80s game, in the midst of turning out a string of freakazoid masterpieces — and this is probably the most underseen of the bunch. Political machinations and cool decapitations, this one’s a blazing bonfire of bodacious swordplay!

Hokum

Starring: Adam Scott, David Wilmot, Austin Amelio, Florence Ordesh

A horror novelist visits an inn in Ireland to spread his parents’ ashes, without knowing the place is rumored to be haunted.

The Fox and the Hound

Starring: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan, Jeanette Nolan

After his mother is killed, Tod the fox (Mickey Rooney) is taken in by the kindly Widow Tweed (Jeanette Nolan). He soon befriends the neighbor’s new hound dog, Copper (Kurt Russell). The two are inseparable, but their friendship is hampered by their masters and by the fact that they are, by nature, enemies. They grow apart as they grow older; Copper has become a strong hunting dog and Tod a wild fox. The pair must overcome their inherent differences in order to salvage their friendship.

Wreck-It Ralph

Starring: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Sarah Silverman, Alan Tudyk, Mindy Kaling, Joe Lo Truglio, Ed O’Neill, Dennis Haysbert

Arcade-game character Wreck-It Ralph is tired of always being the bad guy and losing to his good guy opponent, Fix-It Felix. Finally, after decades of seeing all the glory go to Felix, Ralph decides to take matters into his own hands. He sets off on a game-hopping trip to prove that he has what it takes to be a hero. However, while on his quest, Ralph accidentally unleashes a deadly enemy that threatens the entire arcade.

Undertone

Starring: Nina Kiri, Adam DiMarco, Michèle Duquet, Keana Lyn Bastidas, Jeff Yung

The host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way.

Revelations of Divine Love

Starring: Tessa Strain, Theodore Bouloukos, Isabel Pask, Mary Jo Mecca, Inney Prakash, Hanna Edizel, Samantha Steinmetz, Valéry Lessard, Ayanna Dozier, Abraham Makany, Marit Liang, Pris McEver

An irreverent biopic vividly realized through fantastic psychedelia and handmade sets with an ever-topical feminist approach, Revelations of Divine Love is inspired by and adapted from the memoir of 14th-century mystic and philosopher Julian of Norwich and an account of religious ecstasy, plague, and revolt considered to be the first book to be authored by a woman in English. The film envisions the life of Julian in the lead up to her anchorage—through her illness and the onset of her godly visions—and follows her through the years as she indulges in her desire to write and becomes a revered and holy figure to those in her town and beyond the city walls.

A Useful Ghost

Starring: Wisarut Himmarat, Davika Hoorne, Apasiri Nitibhon, Wanlop Rungkumjud, Wisarut Homhuan

March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner. Disturbed by a ghost that appeared after a worker’s death shut down their factory, his family reject their unconventional human-ghost relationship. Trying to convince them of their love, Nat offers to cleanse the factory. To become a useful ghost, she must first get rid of the useless ones.