THE OVERNIGHT, a painfully funny take on thirty-something sexual frustration and parenthood.
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, have recently moved to Los Angeles’ Eastside from Seattle. Feeling lost in a new city, they are desperate to find their first new friends. After a chance meeting with Kurt at the neighborhood park, they gladly agree to join family pizza night at the home. But as it gets later and the kids go to bed, the family “playdate” becomes increasingly more revealing and bizarre as the couples begin to open up.
A magazine reporter recounts his travels and conversations with author David Foster Wallace during a promotional book tour.
THE END OF THE TOUR tells the story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter (and novelist) David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace’s groundbreaking epic novel, Infinite Jest. As the days go on, a tenuous yet intense relationship seems to develop between journalist and subject. The two men bob and weave around each other, sharing laughs and also possibly revealing hidden frailties – but it’s never clear how truthful they are being with each other. Ironically, the interview was never published, and five days of audio tapes were packed away in Lipsky’s closet.
AMY, a new documentary on the voice, the fame, and the addictions of the late Amy Winehouse.
From Senna director Asif Kapadia, Amy focuses on the life of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who died on 23 July 2011 at the age of 27, from alcohol intoxication at her home in Camden, North London. The film shows the songwriter’s cut-short life with her early years, major music career, as well as her relationships, paparazzi and downfall with drug and alcohol addiction. It features Winehouse from her early years until her untimely death. The film features fifteen voices from Winehouse’s family & close friends to tell the story and is billed as the singer in her own words. The film shows extensive unseen footage and unheard tracks Winehouse had recorded the previous years before she died.
On July 16, THE DEUCE JOCKEYS contribute to Nitehawk’s ANIMAL ATTACKS! series with the 1984 Aussie freakshow RAZORBACK!
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!
This time it’s no dingo that ate the baby… it’s a giant pig with terrifying tusks!! When his reporter wife goes missing in miles-from-nowhere Australia, our American milquetoast “hero” takes a trip to Terrible Town to find out what happened, and gets more than the usual cold shoulder from the loony locals. Teaming up with a bat-shit brother duo and a no-nonsense naturalist lass, the hunt for horror begins! Surreal scenery straight out of a Dali, violence and vengeance veering into the Unknown, and a scene-chomping monster of mythic proportions; it’s like JAWS on acid!!! From the director of the Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star,” Fleetwood Mac’s “Gypsy,” Duran Duran’s “Rio,” a ton of Elton John videos, the first two HIGHLANDER films and THE SCORPION KING: RISE OF A WARRIOR – Russell Mulcahy! Written for the screen – or screeeaaam – by Aussie horror-hero Everett De Roche! This July – sink your teeth into RAZORBACK!!!
Part of Nitehawk’s THE DEUCE signature series.
Starring: Sheng Chiang, Chien Sun, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Meng Lo, Pai Wei, Feng Lu
Approaching the end of his life, the ailing master of the secretive Poison Clan sends off his final pupil to discover which of his five previous students uses the clan’s techniques for evil. The problem is, the real identities of the Poison Clan’s members are a closely guarded secret; and each member can only be identified by the animal style reflected on their masks. The hunt becomes an intricate game of hazy motives and shaky alliances, as each of the six kung-fu masters vie to identify and exploit one-another before their own weaknesses can come to light, all leading to several electric clashes in fighting styles.
From Kill Bill to Kung-Fu Panda to Power Rangers, Five Deadly Venoms is a kung-fu film with wide-reaching influence. Though the palate of many Kung-Fu films lean visually on a more bright, hazy side; Five Deadly Venoms is a colorful, vibrant film with a great mystery at its center to boot.
Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe, David Morse
When a decorated Gulf War veteran and his squadron of elite commandos take control of Alcatraz Island, they point a few missiles loaded with the most deadly chemical known to man straight at San Francisco. Their aim? Money, of course. A lot of it. But with the feds unwilling to capitulate to the demands of terrorists, the fate of the city rests in the shaky hands of a desk jockey with an encyclopedic knowledge of dangerous chemicals, and a mysterious (and handsome) British national who’s the only man to ever escape the prison island and live to tell about it.
Together, all they need to do is infiltrate an impenetrable fortress, kill the U.S. military’s best trained soldiers, and disarm a few skin-melting chemical weapons — just another day inside the mind of Michael Bay.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Joe Pantoliano, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
In one hand there’s a red pill, in the other a blue pill. Take the blue pill and life carries on, you go to work, maybe eat a steak — it’s not bad, really. The only catch is living under the suspicion that something’s amiss, and you’ll never know the answer to that nagging question: “What is The Matrix?” That’s a question that can only be answered by taking the red pill. Your life will change forever, your perception of reality will be upended, and life… well, you’ll find out.
So. What’s it going to be? Are you going to sit at home and peck away at your computer, or are you going to do something with your life?
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels, Joe Morton, Alan Ruck
Hot shot daredevil loose cannon Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) and bomb-happy terrorist Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper) have a bit of a Batman/Joker thing going on. Payne keeps planting bombs around Los Angeles and demanding ransoms, and Traven keeps swooping in at the last minute to save the day. Bitter about his latest scheme’s failure, Payne rigs a city bus with explosives set to go off if its speed drops below 50 mph.
“I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around the city, keeping its speed over fifty, and if its speed dropped, the bus would explode! I think it was called The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.” – Homer J. Simpson
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire
The Godfather: Part II traces two generations of crime starting with the beginning of a gangster family in Sicily and early 1920s New York life of a young “godfather” Vito Corleone (played by Robert de Niro). It also focuses on his son Michael’s (Al Pacino) budding life of crime as he takes control over their crime syndicate stretching from Nevada to Cuba in the late 1950s. The Godfather films set the tone for a new wave of gangster films and this one is rightly considered an American classic; oh, and quite possibly cinema’s greatest sequel.
Two mismatched personal trainers’ lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.
Recently divorced, newly rich, and utterly miserable, Danny (Kevin Corrigan) would seem to be the perfect test subject for a definitive look at the relationship between money and happiness. Danny’s well-funded ennui is interrupted by a momentous trip to the local gym, where he meets self-styled guru/owner Trevor (Guy Pearce) and irresistibly acerbic trainer Kat (Cobie Smulders). Soon, their three lives are inextricably knotted, both professionally and personally.
