SecretFormula presents…     

Spoons, Toons & Booze Gone Wild

Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Cartoons Featuring the Sexiest & Most Scantily Clad Toons on TV!

Do you miss your childhood Saturday mornings of waking up early to gorge on cereal and cartoons? If so, Secret Formula has the ultimate brunch for the kid in you…Spoons, Toons & Booze! We’ve got all your favorite Saturday morning cartoons, delicious cocktails and a free all you can eat sugar cereal bar, not to mention Nitehawk Cinema’s delicious brunch menu.

Before the FCC ruined everything, cartoons got away with some pretty sexy stuff on television. This month, we’re screening episodes featuring sexy babes and beefcakes, beach bodies, scantily clad toons and even more sexiness that was almost too hot for TV! If you’re turned on by anthropomorphic mice in tight jumpsuits, this is the show for you. 

– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930?s through the 90?s and YOU get to choose what we watch!

– A special menu of episodes featuring the sexiest and most scantily clad toons on Saturday morning!

– A free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolaty cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available. 

– Special cereal-themed cocktail menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs, and the “The Complete Breakfast” with Cinnamon Toast Crunch-infused rum, Bailey’s Irish Cream and iced coffee!

– Cereal Shots! Drop a shot of Baileys or Kahlua in to booze up your cereal bowl!

– Compete in contests to choose which cartoons we watch and win sweet prizes from Nitehawk Cinema!

Nitehawk presents a special one night screening with Abrams Books of Wes Anderson’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL in celebration of Matt Zoller Seitz’s new book The Grand Budapest Hotel. 

Book signing with Matt Zoller Seitz in Nitehawk’s lobby immediately following the film. The Grand Budapest Hotel available for sale & Seitz will also introduce the film!

Golden Globe winner for Best Picture Comedy/Musical and nominated for nine Academy Awards (including Best Picture), Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune — all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.

In the new book, The Grand Budapest Hotel, through a series of interviews with Seitz, Anderson shares the story behind the film’s conception, personal anecdotes about the making of the film, and the wide variety of sources that inspired it—from author Stefan Zweig to filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch to photochrom landscapes from turn-of-the-century Middle Europe. The book also features critical essays by Ali Arikan, Steven Boone, David Bordwell, Olivia Collette, and Christopher Laverty; interviews with costume designer Milena Canonero, composer Alexandre Desplat, lead actor Ralph Fiennes, production designer Adam Stockhausen, and cinematographer Robert Yeoman; and an introduction by playwright Anne Washburn. Previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photos, ephemera, and artwork illustrate these interviews and essays. The cover is designed by graphic artist Max Dalton, who also illustrated the cover for Seitz’s previous book, The Wes Anderson Collection, that will also be available for sale at the event!

Nitehawk is also screening Robert Altman’s 3 WOMEN on February 24 in conjunction with the release of the new book Altman.

The New York premiere of HITS, a dark comedy directed by David Cross. Featuring a Q&A with David Cross, Amy Sedaris and Amy Carlson after the film; plus: pay what you want for tickets! 

RSVPing does not guarantee entry day of the event, access is first come first served for the screening.  

Hits is a dark comedy exploring the nature of fame in 21st Century YouTube America. The film takes place in a small town in upstate New York populated by people who trade in unrealistic expectations. It’s a story in which fame, delusion, earnestness, and recklessness meet, shake hands, and disrupt the lives around them.

Director David Cross and stars Amy Sedaris and Amy Carolson will be joining us for the screening for a Q&A following the movie. Tickets will be sold on a pay what you want basis, where you can decide the price of your ticket at the door ($0, $100, $1000?). Tickets must be bought at Nitehawk’s box office, but please RSVP if you plan on attending.

If you like the idea of paying what you want for a film, check out their Kickstarter page for more information.

Jake Gyllenhaal creeper NIGHTCRAWLER slinks into Nitehawk for special Midnite screenings! 

Nightcrawler is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling — where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou thrives. In the breakneck, ceaseless search for footage, he becomes the star of his own story.

SecretFormula presents…
Spoons, Toons & Booze 5th Anniversary Special

We’re thrilled to be celebrating FIVE incredible years of Spoons, Toons & Booze at Nitehawk Cinema in February – and we want to party with you!

We’ll be featuring a special hand-picked selection of our favorite episodes from our very favorite cartoons series to celebrate. We’ll also be marking the occasion with some special treats in honor of our milestone and our wonderful friends at Nitehawk Cinema.

Do you miss your childhood Saturday mornings of waking up early to gorge on cereal and cartoons? If so, SecretFormula has the ultimate brunch for the kid in you…Spoons, Toons & Booze! We’ve got all your favorite Saturday morning cartoons, delicious cocktails and a free all you can eat sugar cereal bar, not to mention Nitehawk Cinema’s excellent brunch menu.

– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930?s through the 90?s and YOU get to choose what we watch!

– A free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolaty cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.

– A White Russian menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs.

– Cereal Shots! Drop a shot of Baileys or Kahlua in to booze up your cereal bowl.

– Compete in contests to choose which cartoons we watch and win prizes from Nitehawk Cinema.

PRETTY WOMAN, say you’ll stay with me ’cause I need you.

Imagine a version of Pygmalion where Henry Higgins hires Elisa Doolittle to have sex with him and go to parties on his dime. That’s more-or-less the concept for Garry Marshall’s Pretty Woman, a punchy romantic comedy whose surprise popularity revitalized the ailing romantic comedy genre and made Julia Roberts Julia Roberts. Roberts plays an idillic prostitute with a heart of gold who winds up in the company of a love shy moneybags played by Richard Gere. Their business arrangement soon blossoms into romance as the two of them get a whirlwind lesson in society, love, money and sex.

Part of Nitehawk’s February I CHOO-CHOO-CHOOSE YOU brunch series.

THE DEUCE lights up the LYRIC THEATRE when hot action hits Hotlanta… and nobody leans on SHARKY’S MACHINE!

Plus: Prizes and surprises, Bronx Brewery Pale Ale at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

Recently reprimanded and newly vice-squaded cop Sharky uncovers a bevy of baddies while spying on prostitute/love interest known as “Dominoe” – then calls on some old buddies for back-up and ball-busting…

Director and star Burt Reynolds’ self-described “Dirty Harry Goes To Atlanta,” cuts more to the emotional quick of big-city-cop cynicism than most of its ilk – taking his tough-guy Sharky into some tender territory, rarely mined in so macho a genre… Without skimping on the fun and furious action and antics!!

Veteran character actors Bernie Casey, Brian Kieth, Richard Libertini and Charles Durning show up as Sharky’s “Machine”  – while creepy Henry Silva is one sinister sicko!! With some smooth jazz courtesy of Doc Severinson!

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR is a searing crime drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically the most dangerous year in the city’s history.

From acclaimed writer/director J.C. Chandor, and starring Oscar Isaac (INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS) and Jessica Chastain (ZERO DARK THIRTY), this gripping story plays out within a maze of rampant political and industry corruption plaguing the streets of a city in decay. J.C. Chandor’s third feature examines one immigrant’s determined climb up a morally crooked ladder, where simmering rivalries and unprovoked attacks threaten his business, family, and––above all––his unwavering belief in the righteousness of his own path.

34 years in prison, 30 in solitary – loving every minute… BRONSON was never much of a people person.

Michael Peterson was your average, everyday bloke until he wound up in the slammer for holding up a Post Office. Prison’s where Michael really began to shine, ditching his old moniker for that of his idol: Charles Bronson. The inmate made a name for himself as Bronson, beating guards to a pulp in prisons all across the country. He even started a riot. You see, to Bronson, jail was like a vacation, a kind of playground where you can beat up just about anybody, and there’s really not much they can do about it.

Based on true events, Nicolas Winding Refn’s (Drive, Only God Forgives) Bronson stars Tom Hardy as the film’s titular badass, a charming, if terrifying, serial inmate who punched and scraped and bit his way into being Her Majesty’s Most Dangerous Prisoner.

Part of Nitehawk’s January I’LL KICK YOUR ASS! midnite series.

See why THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE had to kill every man on their wedding night! Presented in 35mm!

Riffing on the 19th century vampire tale of Carmilla, The Blood Spattered Bride is a trashy exploration of female sexuality, marital misogyny and good old fashioned graphic violence. The film follows a young woman who’s jarred at the discovery of her new husband’s twisted sexual appetites while they’re honeymooning at his family’s secluded manor. Repulsed at the touch of her husband, she seeks solace in nightly visions of one of his ancestors: Carmilla – the Blood-Spattered Bride, who seduces the young woman through lessons in love, lust and murder.

Part of Nitehawk’s February TWISTED ROMANCE midnite series.