Who will survive the attack of the ancient aztec god Q: THE WINGED SERPENT? A 35mm presentation.

It’s a bad summer to be a cop in New York City. First there’s a killer on the loose who’s leaving behind a trail of brutally mutilated bodies, then there’s a massive diamond heist across town, and on top of all of that, an ancient snake-bird starts snacking on the city’s finest rooftop sunbathers and underpaid window washers. The monster is Quetzalcoatl, an ancient Aztec god who’s taken roost inside the grungy, broken peak of the Chrysler Building. With the creature plucking up New Yorkers left and right, it’s up to the cops to storm the art-deco landmark and take the monster out before it can strike again.

Directed by sleaze-horror master Larry Cohen, Q: The Winged Serpent is chock full of unforgettable images: David Carradine waving a machine gun from the top of the Chrysler Building, cops spraying a dinosaur egg full of bullets, and a great deal of majestic cityscapes made complete by a silly looking claymation dragon flying into frame.

Part of Nitehawk’s July ANIMAL ATTACKS! midnite and brunch series.

“Let’s go out to dinner tonight. Then we’ll take in a double bill at The Lyric. Torture Dungeon and Bloodthirsty Butchers. Okay?”
“Who watches those movies in the first place?”
– Dusty and Candy in FLESHPOT ON 42ND STREET

This June 11, YOU DO!! When THE DEUCE JOCKEYS venture off 42nd Street to THE PENTHOUSE THEATRE for TORTURE DUNGEON… WRITTEN, DIRECTED, PHOTOGRAPHED, COSTUMED, SET DECORATED – AND MORE – BY ANDY MILLIGAN!

Screenwriter John Borske will be in attendance for a Q&A following the film.

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!

Milligan’s trade-mark “swirl camera” shines its jaundiced eye on scheming royalty and nefarious nobility in this Medieval bit of Machiavellian mayhem shot for a pittance in the boondocks of Staten Island and populated by petulant princesses, horny hunchbacks, idiot inheritors to the throne, and double crossing dukes!! Who will wear the throne of Tarragon?!? Murder! Torture! Forced insemination!! With a witty and smart script and actors ranging from Milligan regulars giving it their all, to those more stupefied wrangled from the Staten Island streets – TORTURE DUNGEON delivers a deliriously daffy look into the fringes of exploitation film-making and the fun that can be had frolicking there…

Andy Milligan made movies on the (real) cheap for real cheapskates. If they’d been made for the “downtown” crowd – they’d probably be considered experimental art-films today. But – financed by self-styled “moguls” out to make a quick buck exploiting a particularly Times Square movie-going public – they were destined to the trash heap of just more Deuce fodder. Milligan’s idiosyncratic take on the “sex, violence, and horror” genre flick is so particular and strange – today it’s hard to imagine his films playing in any theater. But, in Times Square, they did. Almost exclusively. This month THE DEUCE takes you “off-Deuce” for an excursion into the outer-environs of 42nd Street and the Penthouse Theater, the former balcony of The Strand – around the corner, but still very much “Times Square.”

National Security expert Bill Arkin, military analyst Tyler Rogoway and special guest, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Judith Miller to talk Ed Snowden and the NSA’s massive secret surveillance program revealed in CITIZENFOUR.

The Academy Award winning 2014 documentary that takes you right into the escape of Edward Snowden and the mindset of his accomplices and handlers — Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. Poitras was working on a film about post-9/11 surveillance when Snowden — “Citizen Four” — contacted her. Others had written about, even blown the whistle on the NSA, but Snowden brought out the goods: 1.77 million Top Secret documents, certainly the largest public haul of any insider. The rest is history still in the making.

Judith Miller is a journalist and author specializing in terrorism, the Middle East and other national security issues. She won the Pulitzer-Prize working for New York Times from 1977-2005, becoming its first bureau chief in the Arab World.  She reported on the first Iraq war and then became famous, some would say infamous, for her reporting on weapons of mass destruction leading up to the second Iraq War. In 2005, she spent 85 days in jail to protect confidential sources, receiving the Society of Professional Journalists’ “First Amendment Award.” She is author of four books, most recently, The Story: A Reporter’s Journey. She blogs at www.judithmiller.com and can be seen as a regular commentator for Fox News.

Part of IT’S A CONSPIRACY series presented by Gawker Media.

National Security expert Bill Arkin and military analyst Tyler Rogoway will lead a discussion on Persian Gulf conspiracy caper THREE KINGS.

David O. Russell’s 1999 gore-filled but hilarious meditation about the first Gulf War might start with the greatest opening scene ever in depicting the chaos behind the “first CNN war.” Starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Spike Jonze, and Ice Cube, it is loosely about a movie about war, Iraq, soldiering, and morality. The limousine scene at the culmination is priceless, as is the absurdity of greed and fear mixed in a caper by these American soldiers to steal Kuwait’s gold, which Saddam stole and secreted in southern Iraq. Nora Dunn plays a Christiane Amanpour clone that looks mighty prescient in conveying journalistic zeal and invitation to danger for the story.

Part of IT’S A CONSPIRACY series presented by Gawker Media.

Gawker Media executive editor John Cook & former Investigations Editor Sam Biddle will lead a discussion on Watergate-era thriller THE PARALLAX VIEW. A 35mm presentation.

The 1974 classic that landed smack dab in the middle of real life Watergate and introduced Alan J. Pakula (All the President’s Men) and his unique filming to a nutjob audience.  Warren Beatty plays a reporter who becomes entangled in an elaborate shadow organization that hires and brainwashes innocents to assassinate political candidates.  Invoking Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and modern day suicide bombers, The Parallax View depicts corporate America as manipulating the political process, and killing with impunity. Not possible.

What better duo to end our conspiracy film series than John Cook and Sam Biddle? John Cook is currently the interim Executive Editor of Gawker Media and former Investigations Editor for Gawker Media and editor and reporter at The Intercept and Gawker. Sam Biddle has been at the center of many of Gawker’s biggest investigations and was voted “Employee most likely to get in a tussle on the Space Needle.”

Part of IT’S A CONSPIRACY presented by Gawker Media.

In IRRATIONAL MAN, Woody Allen focuses on a small town college campus, where philosophy professor Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) finds himself in an existential crisis. He discovers a new purpose in life when he enters into a relationship with one of his students (Emma Stone).

What happens when a young woman with Borderline Personality Disorder wins the lottery?

What happens when a young woman with Borderline Personality Disorder wins the lottery? In the case of Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig), she quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show. Inspired by the immortal Oprah, she broadcasts her dirty laundry as both a form of exhibitionism and a platform to share her peculiar views on everything from nutrition to relationships to neutering pets.

In 1980s Brooklyn, the most dangerous gangsters were New York City cops. It all began in a precinct known as THE SEVEN FIVE.

In the late 1980s and early ‘90s Brooklyn, NY was the murder capital of America and ground zero for the crack cocaine epidemic. One man led his crew on a rampage through the streets of East New York, robbing dope dealers at gunpoint, stealing countless kilos of cocaine and hundreds of thousands dollars in cash. He was a New York City cop. This is his story — a high-octane documentary thriller about Michael Dowd, the dirtiest cop ever. His arrest in 1992 led to the largest police corruption scandal in New York City history.

ART SEEN presents Wes Anderson’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL and the painting at the center of its story (part of Nitehawk’s two-month celebration of Jeff Goldblum). 

Wes Anderson’s Academy Award Winning film 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. Against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent, the story involves the theft, a murder mystery, romance, and the battle for an enormous family fortune; at the center is a priceless Renaissance painting bequeathed to Gustave.

ART SEEN is in partnership with frieze. Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS: JEFF GOLDBLUM (BARELY GOLDBLUM & FULL GOLDBLUM) brunches and midnites throughout May and June!

HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT blends fiction, formalism and raw documentary as it follows a young heroin addict who finds mad love in the streets of New York.  

Harley loves Ilya. He gives her life purpose, sets her passion ablaze. So when he asks her to prove her love by slitting her wrists, she obliges with only mild hesitation, perhaps because of her other all-consuming love: heroin. Directed by celebrated filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie, the film is based on Arielle Holmes’ soon-to-be-published memoir Mad Love in New York City.