Get Thanksgiving-ready at Nitehawk with these turkeys!
It’s a few days before Thanksgiving and Windy City ad-man Neal Page (Steve Martin) is stuck in New York for the world’s most pointless marketing meeting. With a holiday flight to catch, Neal looks forward to spending time with his family in just a few short hours. It was supposed to be easy. He wasn’t counting on a blizzard sending his flight to Kansas, and he definitely wasn’t counting on meeting chatty shower curtain ring salesman Del Griffith (John Candy), his new partner in navigating the holiday hell of PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES.
There were a lot of reasons they called him DIRTY HARRY, and he kept inventing new ones.
When the Scorpio killer unleashes hell on San Francisco, the local PD sic their baddest dog on his trail: trigger happy inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood). Notorious for dead perps and injured partners, Callahan plows through SF’s underworld to get to Scorpio before the deranged gunman can follow through on his promise to kill a person every day that his ransoms aren’t met. With his superiors breathing down his neck to play it by the book, can Harry collar a murderer who makes his own rules?
Part of Nitehawk’s January I’LL KICK YOUR ASS! midnite series.
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Jared Leto, Meat Loaf
It takes some people longer to realize it than others, but eventually we all come to the same conclusion: Life’s kind of a drag, huh? A rigged game controlled by credit card companies and marketing firms with a goal of keep us all docile and dumb and in debt. It’s enough to leave you numb; which, fortunately, has an easy cure: a good, solid punch to the face.
In David Fincher’s Fight Club, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) works like a preacher in the church of ass-kicking, winning converts from all walks of life into his underground fight ring, including the film’s nameless narrator (Edward Norton). Re-invigorated by conflict, Durden’s band sets its sights on much larger targets with an elaborate plan that could tear down the entire global economy.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent
4K restoration
In the ring, Jake LaMotta was a fearless middleweight champion, a fighter whose animal strength made him unstoppable; but the traits of a champion aren’t always what they’re cracked up to be. Quick to anger, sexually frustrated, brutally masochistic, all traits of a punishing fighter; but a husband? A brother? In Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese side-steps the typical sports biopic that lionizes its subjects in favor of a violent, unflinching portrait of a man controlled by his animal lusts.
Starring: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham, Vinnie Jones, Ade, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Alan Ford
It all starts with Franky “Four Fingers,” a gambler who manages to swipe an 84-carat diamond that’s worth a fortune on the black market. The theft sends shockwaves through the British underground, as everyone from shady boxing promoters to ex-KGB arms dealers get sucked into a knot of botched jobs and dead bodies. Loaded with comic toughs (Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones), salty wise guys (Dennis Farina, Alan Ford) and good old fashioned weirdos (Benicio Del Toro, Brad Pitt), Guy Ritchie’s Snatch plays out like a an illegal game of Mouse Trap.
On the run from Johnny Law… ain’t no trip to Cleveland.
Anthony (Luke Wilson) doesn’t have much going for himself after his self-imposed stay at the psyche ward, that is until his ambitious mess of a friend Dignan (Owen Wilson) convinces him to take on the romantic life of the career criminal. Dignan’s got it all figured it out, a 75-year road map of their life in crime. They’ve got guns, they’ve got masks, they’ve even got a car and a guy to drive it — none of them have ever robbed a place before, but that part can’t be that hard to figure out, can it?
The debut feature for brothers Luke and Owen Wilson as well as writer/director Wes Anderson, BOTTLE ROCKET may not have the same distinct look as Anderson’s later films, but it certainly shows off his skill with jokey dialogue and absurd characters, as well as his soft-spot for well-meaning screw-ups.
Part of Nitehawk’s January THE PERFECT CRIME brunch series.
Director Alex Ross Perry will be at Nitehawk for a Q&A on 10/27 following the 7pm show!
A complex, intimate, and highly idiosyncratic comedy, LISTEN UP PHILIP is a literary look at the triumph of reality over the human spirit.
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his sure-to-succeed second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip’s idol, Ike Zimmerman, offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject—himself.
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner leads an all-star cast in KILL THE MESSENGER, a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb.
In Kill the Messenger, Gary Webb (Renner) stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s street and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua.
Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. – and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life.
SecretFormula presents…
Spoons, Toons & Booze Christmas Special
We love watching the holiday cartoons on TV the weeks leading up to Christmas, but they don’t show the awesome holiday specials we watched when we were kids anymore. We’ve solved this problem by hosting our own Christmas Special filled with holiday episodes of all the cartoons you loved as a kid! Hosted by SecretFormula’s Michael Austin and Nell Casey, come watch all of your favorite cartoon characters from the 1930’s through 1990’s learn the real meaning of Christmas with…
– Over 80 cartoon series to choose from and YOU get to choose what we watch!
– Special menu of Christmas themed episodes including the rare “He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special”, only aired once in the 80?s and then banished to VHS obscurity!
– Special appearance by Santa Claus himself! Have your picture taken on Santa’s lap and send it to your parents.
– Free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolaty cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.
– Cereal themed cocktails like “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs and the Cinnamon Toast Crunch infused rum based “Complete Breakfast.”
– Hot winter drinks like Bourbon Apple Cider to warm you up and put you in the holiday spirit.
– 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.
SecretFormula presents…
Spoons, Toons & Booze Thanksgiving Special
Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Thanksgiving Themed Episodes!
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 favoriteSaturday morning cartoons, delicious cocktails and a free all you can eat sugar cereal bar, not to mention Nitehawk Cinema’s excellent brunch menu.
We’re thankful for a lot of things this year but more than anything we’re thankful for Thanksgiving themed episodes of some of our favorite cartoons series! Come and learn what Turkey Day is really all about from the cartoon characters of your childhood with…
– A special menu of Thanksgiving themed episodes filled with Turkeys, Pilgrims & Native Americans, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades, football and overeating!
– 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.
