Being stood up has never been so adventurous this late 80s action romp through Chicago.

After her boyfriend cancels their anniversary date, 17-year old Chris Parker (the young and dancing Elisabeth Shue) decides she’ll babysit the Anderson’s kids (15-year-old Brad and 8-year-old Sara) and settle in for a boring evening in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. However, a distress call from her good friend Brenda kicks starts a whole series of misadventures: broken down cars, gang fights on the “L” train, dangling outside of skyscrapers, and supposed superheroes.

Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou, Sabrina Dennison, Adan Jodorowsky

Santa Sangre is a Mexican-set avante-garde thriller whose psychedelic cinematic exploration into the twisted lives of a circus family vividly shows the horrifyingly weird consequences to their violent actions. The story unfolds as follows: while performing her high vantage circus act, the mother sees that her husband is fooling around with the tattooed lady. So, she throws acid on his privates. He cuts off her arms and kills himself. Their young son Fenix enters the insane asylum. Years later, all grown up and somewhat sane, Fenix rejoins his mother on a murderous revenge spree by providing her the arms she needs.

Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson

What is the power of memory? Is it something that can be wiped out in order to move forward in life with less pain or are we simply doomed to repeat ourselves? This philosophical quandary of love and loss is at the very heart of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a surreal science-fiction film written by Charlie Kaufman, directed by Michel Gondry, and starring a multi-color-haired Kate Winslet and sentimental Jim Carrey.

Come watch The Big Game 2013 on the Big Screen at Nitehawk as the Baltimore Ravens battle the San Francisco 49ers for football’s biggest title!

You may have a large screen television but nothing beats seeing The Big Game on Nitehawk’s big theater screen with table-side service. Buying our $25 food and beverage voucher saves you a seat to watch the game with friends, family, and football fan strangers. We’ll be serving up our House Made Hot Wings and will be featuring beer specials from the region of each team. To cap it all off, the Puppy Bowl with its saucy Halftime Kitten Show plays in the lobby.

Go team!

The persistent memory of his involvement in the deaths of his wife and daughter come back to haunt Michael Courtland in a very real way.

Unhinged and unable to forgive himself for the part he played in the deaths of his kidnapped wife and daughter, New Orleans real estate developer Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) winds up on a treacherous journey through the haunting and constructed fiction of memories. The traumatic occurrences of losing his family repeat themselves after he re-marries a much younger woman who is, rather eerily, a spitting image of his former wife. Admittedly influenced by Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Obsession’s structure folds in on itself as the narrative twists and turns to reveal a terrifying truth.

Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS – BRIAN DE PALMA series.

First she mates, then she terminates! A young woman becomes possessed by an ancient maneater in this Indonesian low-budget version of The Terminator.

So let’s get something straight: Lady Terminator doesn’t actually involve robots however it IS the Indonesian rip-off of The Terminator and it does deal with a young woman possessed by a black-widow spirit of “The South Sea Queen.” It also vaguely has something to do with an eel and a vagina. This young anthropologist (not a lady!) gets possessed by the man-killer Queen in order to kill the great-granddaughter of the man who did her in. We can’t spoil all the fun in this description so just trust us when we say that you definitely don’t want to miss this lovely low-budget exploitation flick!

Starring: John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer, Frances Sternhagen, Gregg Henry, Tom Bower

Some consider Carter Nix (John Lithgow) “the perfect man” for his passionate investment in raising his daughter Amy. Presumed to be on hiatus from his child psychology practice, his devotion unsettles wife Jenny (Lolita Davidovich), who suspects Amy to be a professional project for Carter. Jenny, caught up in a reignited tryst with Jack (Steven Bauer), is having trouble distinguishing between dreams and reality just as mothers and children start to disappear from a neighborhood playground. Meanwhile Carter’s evil twin has emerged, putting on display the damage done by their father who specialized in child development.

A return to thriller form for Brian De Palma, who dips into his bag of tricks to confound and delight, Raising Cain revels in upending expectations, toying with the audience. Lithgow chows down on the multiple roles, effortlessly swinging from whiny man-child to slick maniac.

Starring: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson

The uncertainty of the 1980s permeates Los Angeles as punk rocker, Otto (Emilio Estevez), finds out that nothing is quite what it seems. He quits his no-where job, gets dumped by his girlfriend, and finds out his parents spent his colleague funds on a televangelist. With nothing to lose he becomes a repo man…and this is when things start to get really strange. Director Alex Cox makes Los Angeles the place of cosmic possibility, a city where UFOs and lunatic scientists meet car and punk culture. Plus, the soundtrack captures a real moment in L.A.’s music history.

Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott

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 (Bill Murray) eventually navigates his way through the Groundhog Day(s) and gets to the other side.

The glossy and stylish Femme Fatale is De Palma’s neo-noir cinema antidote to the “woman-as-victim” genre.

“A femme fatale is a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations.”

Jewelry heists, identity theft, suicide, faux-kidnapping, and murder make up this Parisian tale that follows con-woman Laure (Rebecca Romjin) from her double-cross after stealing the diamond jewel “Eye of the Serpent” from a sexually adventurous model at the Cannes film festival to her attempts to straighten her life out. Though her power of seduction has helped her attain riches and has gotten her into the arms of a powerful politician, the beautiful and deadly Laure cannot escape her past. Often viewed as prioritizing form over content, Femme Fatale is a self-referential sexy thriller about cinema, desire and the complications involving the secrets we manifest.

Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS – BRIAN DE PALMA series.