Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Carol Kane, Bob Goldthwait, David Johansen, Robert Mitchum, John Forsythe, Alfre Woodard
Charles Dickens’ classic tale A Christmas Carol has seen numerous adaptations but none are as darkly strange as the Bill Murray helmed Scrooged. As Frank Cross, he plays a television station executive known as much for his callousness and cruelty as for his money-making programming. This Christmas he’s in for a real life lesson. On the eve (Christmas Eve) of hosting a live broadcast of A Christmas Carol, Cross is visited by three ghosts who, well, you know the story…
Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Vincent Price
Edward Scissorhands is a classic Tim Burton and Johnny Depp film about a small suburban town that receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward. A satire on the normality of Middle-America and their fear of outsiders. A magical fairytale story of loneliness, learning, and love; that will make you laugh, curse, and cry.
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First Course
Humiliation and Discomfort – savory Christmas cookies | rosemary | EVOO | Maldon sea salt
Winsome Wahini – Montelobos Mezcal | Reyka Vodka | lime | orange curacao | orgeat | demerara pineapple shrub
Second Course
Family Dinner – snap pea salad | radish | feta | fine herbs | ginger-carrot vinaigrette
A Touch of Lavender – Reyka Vodka | Lavender Honey | Butterfly Pea Shoot | Liquore Strega | Sparkling Wine
Third Course
Backyard BBQ – Ambrosia salad | deviled egg | cheese and salami skewer | beef and bell pepper kebab
Lemonade Two Ways –
1) Monkey Shoulder Scotch | lemon oil | thyme infused ice cube
2) thyme | meyer lemonade
Fourth Course
Diner – mini patty melt | American cheese | caramelized onions | caraway aioli | Martin’s potato roll
Just a Little Shock – Montelobos Mezcal | Lapsang Souchong | Smoked Maple Syrup | Black Walnut Bitters
Fifth Course
You Can’t Buy the Necessities of Life with a Cookie – assorted Christmas cookies
Ice Angel – Reyka Vodka | Key Lime | Condensed Milk | Coconut and Cinnamon Pearls
STARRING: Emma Stone, Steve Carrell, Alan Cumming, Andrea Riseborough, and Natalie Morales
The electrifying 1973 tennis match between world number one champion Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs was billed as “The Battle of the Sexes” and became the most watched televised sports event of all time.
Starring: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht
Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes, the Monster Squad, are the only ones daring to stand in their way.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jared Gilman
The year is 1965, and the residents of New Penzance, an island off the coast of New England, inhabit a community that seems untouched by some of the bad things going on in the rest of the world. Twelve-year-olds Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward) have fallen in love and decide to run away. But a violent storm is approaching the island, forcing a group of quirky adults (Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray) to mobilize a search party and find the youths before calamity strikes.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, Charlotte Valandrey
In 1600, nobleman Orlando (Tilda Swinton) inherits his parents’ house, thanks to Queen Elizabeth I, who commands the young man to never change. After a disastrous affair with Russian princess Sasha, Orlando looks for solace in the arts before being appointed ambassador to Constantinople in 1700, where war is raging. One morning, Orlando is shocked to wake up as a woman and returns home, struggling as a female to retain her property as the centuries roll by.
With unfettered access, Director and Director of Photography David Byars gives a detailed, on-the-ground account of the 2016 standoff between protestors occupying Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and federal authorities. After the leaders of this occupation put out a call to arms via social media, the Malheur occupiers quickly bolstered their numbers with a stew of right-wing militia, protestors, and onlookers.
What began as a protest to condemn the sentencing of two ranchers quickly morphed into a catchall for those eager to register their militant antipathy toward the federal government. During the 41-day siege, the filmmakers were granted remarkable access to the inner workings of the insurrection as the occupiers went about the daily business of engaging in an armed occupation.
NO MAN’S LAND documents the occupation from inception to its dramatic demise and tells the story of those on the inside of this movement – the ideologues, the disenfranchised, and the dangerously quixotic, attempting to uncover what draws Americans to the edge of revolution.
This is the ultimate pot-smoking movie without anyone actually smoking pot (ok, yes, the dog tokes). Dude Where’s My Car is a severely underrated film we deem a bonafide classic. After two potheads, Jesse and Chester, wake up to find their car missing, they enter into one bizarro world in the land of Los Angeles that includes tracksuits, hot chicks, video games, Zoltan, and, yes, an ostrich. You’re in for the ride of your life with this one. Dude. Sweet.
