Starring: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul Dooley, Paul L. Smith
Print courtesy of the Robert Altman Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive
Looking for the father (Ray Walston) who deserted him as a baby, a sailor named Popeye (Robin Williams) journeys to the port town of Sweethaven. Popeye befriends an assortment of eccentrics and falls in love with Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall), who already has a suitor, the bully Bluto (Paul L. Smith). Popeye also discovers an abandoned baby, Swee’Pea, whom he raises as his own. But when the spurned Bluto kidnaps Olive and the child, Popeye takes action, with the help of his magic spinach.
In 1965, the iconic troubadour Bob Dylan toured the United Kingdom at the age of 23, and director D.A. Pennebaker was allowed behind the scenes to provide one of the most intimate glimpses of the private and frequently cantankerous songwriter. The film chronicles Dylan’s concert appearances, hotel room conversations, and transportation downtime, pulling back the curtain on the folk messiah at the end of his relationship with Joan Baez and on the cusp of his creative shift toward rock music.
Starring: Akio Ôtsuka, Atsuko Tanaka, Tamio Ôki, Kôichi Yamadera
In the year 2032, the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. A string of murders perpetrated by a prototype android model has drawn the attention of Public Security Section 9, a unit specializing in counter cyber-terrorism. With none of the victims’ families pressing charges, suspicions arise regarding the nature of the androids and their production company. In the course of the investigation, the almost entirely cyber-bodied agent Batou, and his still human partner Togusa embark on a journey through a technological dystopia, taking on ferocious Yakuza thugs, devious hackers, government bureaucrats, and corporate criminals to uncover the shocking truth behind the crime.
Starring: Isabelle Mejias, Anthony Franciosa, Sybil Danning, Paul Hubbard
Teenager Julie is smitten with her own father and at odds with her mother, causing friction in their marriage. When she deliberately fails to stop the assault and death of her mother, she figures she’ll have him all to herself. But daddy has a mistress waiting, and as he hastily tries to integrate her and her son into the family, Julie starts scheming on how to get rid of them too.
A nasty little Canadian production that grows increasingly twisted, Julie Darling features a solid performance from Isabelle Mejias as the psychopathic teen, meeting her match with Sybil Danning as her new step mom.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Anthony Mackie, Rosa Salazar, Liv Tyler, Giancarlo Esposito
Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident after meeting with President Thaddeus Ross. He must soon discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
Starring: Isla Fisher, Pete Davidson, Stephen Root, Ricky Gervais, Lil Rel Howery
When a police officer and his faithful police dog get injured in the line of duty, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together — and Dog Man is born. As Dog Man learns to embrace his new identity, he must stop feline supervillain Petey the Cat from cloning himself and going on a crime spree.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Julie Waters, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, Ben Whishaw
Paddington and his adopted family, the Browns, decide to visit his aunt Lucy in Peru, but circumstances lead them towards misadventures in the Amazon rainforest and mountains of Peru.
Starring: Linnea Quigley, Dino Tripodis, Nick Baldasare, Shanna Thomas
In the small town of Copperton, Ohio, Paul Henson, a former big-city journalist, buys a small local newspaper. He quickly falls into a wide-reaching conspiracy of ritualistic murder and cult mind control when he discovers that the entire town may be under the spell of a Satanic reverend and his flock. As the clues and corpses pile up, Henson and his family are thrust into a life-or-death struggle to expose the truth and stop the demonic cabal’s reign of evil.
This never-before-seen “Satanic Panic” opus from the late 1980s is often cited as the ‘lost’ Linnea Quigley movie and boasts several impressive feats as a low budget regional feature, including gruesome effects, kinetic action set pieces, effective score and a memorable lineup of eccentric Midwest characters. Heartland of Darkness (sometimes also referred to as Blood Church) was shot in 1989 by director Eric Swelstad on 16mm but had been lost in obscurity and distribution false starts for over 30 years.
Comedian Kevin Maher returns to Nitehawk Williamsburg with an all-new holiday spectacular. And he’s joined by special guest co-host Emily Intravia (from The Feminine Critique podcast.) Get into the Christmas spirit with a night of Yuletide surprises.
See why SyFy called Kevin “an insane genius” in the series DailyGrindhouse described as “TED Talks for Midnight Movies.”
Join us for a one-of-a-kind, one-night-only comedy-variety show celebrating the most wonderful time of the year.
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*Arrive at 6:30 for a custom Christmas pre-show/kickoff video by editor Tom Silvestro.
Starring: Mark Redfield, Gage Sheridan, Doug Brown, Frank Smith, Mark Hyde
After losing his job and his wife, Gordon crashes his car and lands in Purgatory, where he’s attacked by fanatics and enslaved souls. He’s soon saved by a quirky band of freedom fighters from different historical eras, all of whom died in noble sacrifice. Reluctantly joining their cause, Gordon embarks on a wild adventure through surreal, hellish landscapes to battle the Despiser, the malevolent ruler of the realm. Facing shifting realities, monstrous creatures, and intense car chases over lava oceans, their journey leads to the ultimate showdown to save all of humanity.
Philip Cook’s eccentric, non-stop menagerie of machine gun battles, early CGI masterwork and endless array of monsters makes it one of the most unique direct to video features of the VHS and early DVD era. Cook painstakingly crafts a green screen netherworld steeped in brutal violence, religious mythology and action movie tropes, all filtered through a dream-like, hallucinogenic lens that never once takes its foot off the gas and manages to outdo itself at every turn.
