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.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cybil Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel
Adrift in New York City after the Vietnam War, socially awkward loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes up a job prowling the city’s streets as a taxi driver to deal with his insomnia. Exposed to no one but a rogues gallery of pimps, hustlers and perverts, Travis begins seeing the world as putrid and in need of cleansing. Through awkward, fumbling attempts at romance, Travis isolates himself further, leaving him alone to mull over his obsessions: guns, a phony presidential candidate, and a roughed-up underage prostitute.
Martin Scorsese’s masterwork, Taxi Driver is a brute of a film, one that scrapes characters from the gutter of New York City and rakes them out into the sun to see how they react. Essential on every level.
Love can be vicious.
Boy meets girl. Girl gives boy heroin. Boy kills girl. Boy dies too. The passionate and troubled romance between Sex Pistol’s bassist Sid Vicious and groupie turned girlfriend Nancy Spungen is the stuff of rock and roll legend, a tale that casts a long shadow of drug addiction, abuse and industry enabling. Anchored by a pair of powerful performances from Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, Alex Cox’s SID AND NANCY is one of the best films about the lethal cocktail of sex, drugs and rock and roll ever made.
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent, Margit Carstensen
Drawing elements from marital dramas, political thrillers and good old-fashioned blood-and-guts horror, Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession chronicles the dissolution of a marriage between a spy (Sam Neill) and his increasingly erratic wife (Isabelle Adjani).
Back from a mission abroad, Mark comes home to discover that his wife, Anna, wants a divorce. Unable to shake his wife’s sudden change in heart, Mark begins an investigation into her downward spiral only to discover that she’s come completely unraveled, a frothing, raving, violent shell of her former self. The source of her madness seems to come from within her Berlin apartment, and boy… it ain’t pretty.
