Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong.
Living separate lives on opposite sides of the country, estranged siblings Maggie and Milo are at the end of their ropes. But after a moment of crisis reunites them, Milo goes to spend time with Maggie in the small New York town where they grew up. A dental hygienist, Maggie struggles with her unhappy marriage to the
A couple escapes for a weekend in pursuit of their better selves, only to discover an unusual dilemma that awaits them.
Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elisabeth Moss) are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist (Ted Danson), they decide to salvage their relationship by escaping to a beautiful vacation house for the weekend. What starts off as a relaxing and tranquil retreat soon spirals into a dizzying and unusual experience that forces the troubled couple to really look at themselves and reflect on the complexities of their relationship. Over the course of a few days, Ethan and Sophie struggle to pursue their better selves as they watch everything they once thought to be real merge with the surreal.
SecretFormula presents… Spoons, Toons & Booze Rock!
Featuring Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Musical/Rock n’ Roll Cartoon 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 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.
Live out your rock n’ roll fantasies this month at Spoons, Toons & Booze Rock! We’ve got your favoriteSaturday morning and weekday afternoon cartoons on the big screen plus a special menu of episodes featuring rock stars, band breakups, musical numbers, band parodies, battles of the bands, some bodacious shredding from an animated Bill & Ted and maybe something that’s truly, truly, truly outrageous. Plus, cartoon covers performed live in the theater!
– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930?s through the 90?s and YOU get to choose what we watch!
– Sing-Along with your favorite cartoon theme songs with all the lyrics on screen!
– Let our STB Band serenade you with cartoon covers that rock!
– A free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolatey cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.
– 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 sweet prizes from SecretFormula & Nitehawk Cinema!
The shocking story of two imaginative girls whose fantasy world turns deadly in Peter Jackson’s HEAVENLY CREATURES.
Twenty years before we knew him best for Lord of the Rings or before Kate Winslet was a household name, Heavenly Creatures burst onto the world with the chilling true-life drama about an obsessive friendship. When circumstances bring together two imaginative teenage schoolgirls, they quickly form an unwavering bond, creating a fantasy world that only they can share. But when their parents become disturbed by the intensity of the friendship and threaten to keep them apart, the girls vow to stay together and devise a secret plan that leads to shocking consequences.
Part of Nitehawk’s 1994 September series.
Starring: Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, Bai Ling
The night before his wedding, musician Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his fiancée are brutally murdered by members of a violent inner-city gang. On the anniversary of their death, Eric rises from the grave and assumes the gothic mantle of the Crow, a supernatural avenger. Tracking down the thugs responsible for the crimes and mercilessly murdering them, Eric eventually confronts head gangster Top Dollar (Michael Wincott) to complete his macabre mission.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere
Twenty year ago, before you knew him as the Governor of California, Schwarzenegger was all about the action packed good times! To his family, Harry Tasker is a boring and ordinary computer salesman. But to the world, he’s a powerful secret agent for the Omega Sector with the power to kill! All this secrecy unravels when Harry’s wife begins seeing another man and his has him kidnapped. Realizing his true identity, the couple goes from dull to adventurous as Harry fights terrorists who are after nuclear warheads. Don’t fret, the good guys, romance and the one-liners win!
Three friends discover a dead roommate and lots of money in Danny Boyle’s SHALLOW GRAVE.
Two decades ago, before he was an Academy Award winner, Danny Boyle made his directorial debut with the black-comedy crime thriller, SHALLOW GRAVE. We’re not going to ruin the plot for those who haven’t seen it but the film centers around three roommates (very tight friends) who get a new mysterious flatmate. But after a couple of days of this new guy locking his door and never seen again, they start investigating and get a whole lot more than they bargained for. Very original for its time, it starts off very funny but then gets more sinister as things unfold.
Part of Nitehawk’s 1994 September series.
Nitehawk Cinema & Tribeca Film Institute Summer Documentary Series present the winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, POINT AND SHOOT.
Q&A following the screening with Director Marshall Curry via Skype and Matthew VanDyke in person, moderated by Beth Janson (Executive Director, Tribeca Film Institute). Introduction by Max Cavanaugh (Technical Director/Programmer, Nitehawk Cinema).
Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, POINT AND SHOOT follows Matt VanDyke, a timid 27-year-old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, who left home in Baltimore in 2006 and set off on a self-described “crash course in manhood”. He bought a motorcycle and a video camera and began a three-year, 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East.
While traveling, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie, and when revolution broke out in Libya, Matt joined his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, Matt fought in — and filmed — the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held in solitary confinement for six months. Two-time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry tells this harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man’s struggle for political revolution and personal transformation.
Point and Shoot screens as part of a new initiative by Tribeca Film Institute and Nitehawk Cinema that presents a curated series of documentaries from the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. More information can be found here.
I’d like to tell you the story of eyes that changed this world.
I ORIGINS, the second feature film from writer and director Mike Cahill, tells the story of Dr. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt), a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner Karen (Brit Marling), they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.
Starring: Chris Evans, Song Kang Ho, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris, Ewen Bremner, Ko Asung
It’s been 17 years since we froze the earth. The few remaining humans live on the Snowpiercer, a train on an infinite loop around the globe. For those at the front, it’s a lavish paradise of drugs and sushi in the lap of luxury; for those trapped in the tail section, life is short and cruel. But change is in the air. Curtis (Chris Evans), desperate to escape the tail of the train, plans an uprising, aided by his mentor Gilliam (John Hurt). What begins as an isolated riot explodes into a mass revolution, an all-or-nothing push to the front of the train, and a war for humanity’s future. Who will live and who will die? How far can they go? Is there hope beyond the frozen wastes?
