Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, N’Bushe Wright, Kris Kristofferson
When Blade’s mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade and his mentor Whistler battle an evil vampire rebel (Deacon Frost) who plans to take over the outdated vampire council, capture Blade and resurrect voracious blood god La Magra.
Starring: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Judy Greer, Laverne Cox, Sam Elliott, Marcia Gay Harden
Planned Parenthood of New York City, in collaboration with Nitehawk, is excited to present a screening to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion in the United States. While abortion may be legal, it remains largely inaccessible for many people. Please join us for a program that highlights the challenges people face while accessing abortion care, and the importance of nuanced portrayals of such in pop culture.
In Grandma, self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.
Also part of the program will be video testimonies from the No Choice series produced by Bill Moyers.
Starring: Kaniehtiio Horn, Justin Rain, Eamon Farren, Ezra Buzzington
From writer/director Ted Geoghegan (We Are Still Here) and featuring wrestling icon Jon Huber (WWE Superstar Luke Harper), MOHAWK is a white-knuckled hellride that’s unrelenting in its intensity and unflinching in its depiction of humanity pushed to the limits.
After one of her tribe sets fire to an American soldiers’ camp during the War of 1812, a young female Mohawk finds herself pursued by a ruthless band of renegades bent on revenge. Fleeing into the deep woods, Mohawk youths Oak (Kaniehtiio Horn, Hemlock Grove) and Calvin (Justin Rain, Fear the Walking Dead), along with their British sympathizer friend Joshua (Eamon Farren, Twin Peaks), confront the true horrors of war and the terror of the darkest night as they’re hunted by the bloodthirsty Colonel Holt (Ezra Buzzington, The Hills Have Eyes) and his small army of soldiers.
As the Americans seem to close in from all sides, leaving a massacred trail of destruction behind them, the trio must use every resource available to stave off brutal execution at the hands of the sadistic soldiers. But the warrior spirit is strong in Oak, and before the sun rises her pursuers will discover the full power of a righteous spirit unleashed.
Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language Film, IN THE FADE, comes to Nitehawk for a special brunch presentation.
Out of nowhere, Katja’s life falls apart when her husband Nuri and little son Rocco are killed in a bomb attack. Her friends and family try to give her the support she needs, and Katja somehow manages to make it through the funeral. But the mind numbing search for the perpetrators and reasons behind the senseless killing complicate Katja’s painful mourning, opening wounds and doubts. Danilo, a lawyer and Nuri’s best friend, represents Katja in the eventual trial against the two suspects: a young couple from the neo-Nazi scene. The trial pushes Katja to the edge, but there’s simply no alternative for her: she wants justice.
Starring: Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano, William Tepper, John P. Ryan
Preceded by video intro from director Jim McBride, plus a look at the alternate ending
Co-presented by Fun City Editions
Richard Gere is electrifying as Jesse Lujack, a small-time criminal obsessed with the rockabilly tunes of Jerry Lee Lewis, the Silver Surfer and Monica (Valérie Kaprisky), the beautiful French exchange student he spent a passionate couple of nights with in Vegas. High-tailing it to Los Angeles to rendezvous again with Monica, Jesse steals a fast car and accidentally shoots and kills a highway patrolman. Now the most wanted fugitive in L.A., Jesse should get across the border to Mexico as soon as possible, but Monica leaves him breathless…
Co-writer and director Jim McBride (David Holzman’s Diary and Great Balls of Fire) and co-writer L.M. Kit Carson (Paris, Texas and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) boldly set out to create an American version of Jean-Luc Godard’s groundbreaking debut Breathless and the result is a wildly energetic and imaginative neo-noir romance that has become a cult classic.
Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent, Leo Rossi, Lance Henriksen, Charles Napier, Rip Torn
This April 19: Spring into action when special-guest “Uncle Bill” Lustig visits THE DEUCE to introduce his hard-hitting tale of 80s LA dis-organized Crime: HIT LIST – as it pummeled the pugnacious patrons of the Cine-42 in March of 1989!
Maniacal, Machiavellian mob-boss Rip Torn hires unhinged hit-man/surly shoe-salesman Lance Henriksen to tie up some loose ends… but a mundane mistake leads to murderous mayhem!! When an erroneous kidnapping gets dutiful dad Jan-Michael Vincent moderately miffed – he goes gunning for vengeance on the seedy streets, in a riotous race to save his son from the mafia scum…
Shoot-outs in kiddie Laser Tag emporiums, and perilous parking-garage car chases ensue! A glut of B-Movie genre antics and action: Gangsters! Gritty urban grime! Crime! Courtroom pyrotechnics! Pissed-off-Pop revenge!! With stolid stalwarts Charles Napier and Leo Rossi along for the ride, HIT LIST runs the gamut delivering the thrills – and Lustig’s direction doesn’t let down! Put this lusty piece of perfectly furious fun on your short-LIST of things to do this month – don’t miss this HIT!
Starring: Stephen Furst, Barbara Bach, Sydney Lassick, Lelia Goldoni.
“For too long, it has been hiding… waiting… watching…” – On May 10, THE DEUCE unearths THE UNSEEN – the 1980 freak-out by Danny Steinmann – writer and director of Friday the 13th: A New Beginning!
A freelance reporter and her two friends accept an invitation for cheap room and board in a large farmhouse offered by a friendly, but shady, museum owner. Unknown to the women, an unseen hostile being lurks in the basement.
Starring: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini
Brokeback Mountain is an Ang Lee film about two modern day cowboys who meet on a shepherding job in the summer of ’63. The two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a life long relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Starring: Teyonah Parris, Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett, John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago’s Southside by withholding sex until the men of Chicago lay down their arms, challenging the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.
Starring: Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, Isabella Rossellini, Crispin Glover
Shot after the pilot of “Twin Peaks” and released at the height of the show’s popularity, Wild at Heart was the first time that a David Lynch film hinged on being a DAVID LYNCH FILM. The story of a pair of young lovers on the run from the young girl’s psychotic mother sticks largely to convention, but doesn’t lack in the director’s token knack for violence and dark humor.
Rather than deliver a juicy, pulpy crime story, Lynch offers up a sun-bleached, heavy metal version of The Wizard of Oz, complete with witches, yellow brick roads and the clicking heels of ruby slippers.
