Starring: Lori Petty, Malcolm McDowell, Naomi Watts, Ice-T
The Future of Film is Female continues its year-long celebration of 90s cinema with a 30th anniversary screening of TANK GIRL. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
“A glorious, spastic mess. Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin’s neo-underground cult comic book Tank Girl comes to life looking, amazingly, exactly like it ought to, positively overflowing with an ever-changing riot of color, gratuitous violence, inter-species shagging, toss-away one-liners, and gobs of little wonky bits that will either knock you upside the funny bone or leave you reeling from out-of-it confusion. … Set in the year 2033, Lori Petty is the titular Riot Grrrl Rebecca Buck, a gooney, obnoxious, and thoroughly lovable young woman who wants nothing more than to scare up some precious water for her mates in this post-apocalyptic, water-free world. … What can you say about a movie that combines Busby Berkeley chorus lines with killer mutant kangaroos and the wildest female action hero this side of La Femme Nikita? What can’t you say?” — Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle, March 31, 1995
“Enormous energy went into this movie. I could not, however, care about it for much more than a moment at a time, and after awhile its manic energy wore me down.” — Roger Ebert, March 31, 1995
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, Oleksandr Usyk, Marcus Aurelio
MMA fighter Mark Kerr reaches the peak of his career but faces personal hardships.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Allison Janney, Olivia Colman, Andy Samberg, Ncuti Gatwa, Kate McKinnon
A seemingly perfect couple hides tensions and rivalry. When the husband’s career ambitions fail, their relationship’s underlying conflicts explode.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James, James Hong
Police officers Ray Tango (Sylvester Stallone) and Gabe Cash (Kurt Russell) are narcotics experts working to bring down drug lord Yves Perret (Jack Palance). In an attempt to stymie their efforts, Perret sets up Tango and Cash, making it look as if they’ve killed an FBI agent. Arrested and put in prison, the two cops formulate an escape plan and, once out, team up with Tango’s exotic dancer sister, Katherine (Teri Hatcher), in order to clear their records and take down Perret once and for all.
Starring: James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski
Presented by Severin Films and The Oscarbate Film Collective; Severin Films Pop-Up Shop before and after the film!
Upon his death in 2013 at the age of 82, writer/director Jess Franco – hailed by The Guardian as “a dedicated exponent of weird sex, shocking sadism and surreal horror, and one of the cinema’s great individualists” – left an astonishing legacy of over 180 films that Sight & Sound says “occupy a liminal terrain between exploitation cinema and the avant-garde, playing with the porous structure of dream and nightmare, indeed the nature of reality itself.”
Violated and left for dead, a young woman’s vengeful spirit traverses space and time to seek retribution against her cold-blooded killers, a sinister group of libertines led by Klaus Kinski. Attempting to discover the truth behind her resurrection, a young jazz player begins to fall for this revenge-seeking specter, with the hope he doesn’t befall a similar fate as her and her murderers.
Rising from the psychedelic shadows of the late 60’s, Venus in Furs appeared to fit right alongside certain dosed AIP titles like The Trip and Psych-Out; however, the filmmaker’s mad vision stretched beyond the groovy bounds of those films, and emerged as a definitive statement for exploitation cinema at large. Utilizing an array of kaleidoscopic visuals and a blistering score, Venus in Furs provides the perfect gateway into the world of Jess Franco.
Starring: Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston
When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson
Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) is now divorced, alcoholic and jobless after getting fired for his reckless behavior and bad attitude. He is called back into action, however, when a cryptic terrorist (Jeremy Irons) takes New York City hostage in a lethal game of “Simon Says” and refuses to speak with anyone but McClane. Teaming up with a street-savvy electrician named Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson), McClane dashes through the city, trying to stay one step ahead of a murderous plot.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky, Aubrey Joseph, Elijah Wright, Rick Fox
When a powerful music mogul is targeted by a ransom plot, he is forced to fight for his family and legacy while jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
Starring: Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge, Neal Huff
On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his own identity, Frankie begins to scour hookup sites for older men. When his chatting and webcamming intensify, he begins meeting men at a nearby cruising beach while simultaneously entering into a cautious relationship with a young woman. As Frankie struggles to reconcile his competing desires, his decisions leave him hurtling toward irreparable consequences.
Eliza Hittman’s award-winning Sundance hit is a powerful character study that is as visually stunning as it is evocative.
Starring: Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Vincent D’Onofrio, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Regina King, Bad Bunny
Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.
