SecretFormula presents… Spoons, Toons & Booze Goes Back To School

Featuring your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Cartoons All About School!

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.

Summer’s warm embrance is coming to a close, meaning we have nothing but long days staring at textbooks and memorizing multiplication tables in front of us. Wait a minute…we don’t have to go to school anymore! But to celebrate our love for the Trapper Keeper, we’re reliving our school days thru our favorite childhood cartoon characters and a special menu of cartoon episodes all about school, featuring teachers, bullies, pop quizzes, detention, pranks, wedgies, cafeteria lunches, schoolyard crushes and more!

– 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, chocolatey cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.

– White Russian menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs, and The Complete Breakfast – Cinnamon Toast Crunch infused rum, Bailey’s Irish Cream, iced coffee ($8).

– Cereal Shots! Drop a shot of Baileys or Kahlua in to booze up your cereal bowl!

– Test your cartoon and cereal knowledge in our STB Pop Quiz plus more contests to choose which cartoons we watch and for you to win sweet prizes from SecretFormula and Nitehawk Cinema!

Escaped convicts and the family they’ve kidnapped engage in an overnight battle with vampires on the Mexican border in Robert Rodriguez’s FROM DUSK TILL DAWN! Presented in 35mm by El Rey Network!

The ‘From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series’ will also screen in the lobby prior to the film each night!

Directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino, From Dusk Till Dawn is everything you’d want in an all action horror vampire movie. Escaped convict brothers with mental issues? Check. Sexy vampire queens? Check. Dirty jokes and deadly monsters? Check, check. Harvey Keitel as a bow-wielding pastor who lost his faith? Check. What starts out as questionable morality of two criminals who kidnap a family in order to flee into Mexico turns into a struggle of mortality as they surprisingly find themselves in an overnight battle to save their souls from bloodthirsty biker vampires. From Dusk Till Dawn is a fantastically unique twist on the generic vampire tale: unwitting visitors who find themselves fighting the undead done as only the Rodriguez/Tarantino combo could do. A big screen must see.

Part of Nitehawk’s BITE THIS August midnite series.

George A. Romero’s is-he-or-isn’t-he vampire film may just be his best! MARTIN is a special 35mm presentation that includes a post-screening Q&A with lead actor John Amplas moderated by Fangoria’s Sam Zimmerman!

The father of the modern cinematic zombie (the one and only George A. Romero) is also the creator of one of the most subtle vampire films ever made, Martin. Set in the decaying urban landscape of Pittsburgh, the film contains much of the underlying social and political concerns expressed in the his Dead works. Here we have a young man named Martin who has been sent to stay with his elderly relative. Things are a little tense between the two because dear old Martin has a tendency to kill people for their blood (with razors, not teeth). It’s never quite clear if he’s actually a vampire or just someone with mental issues but it’s this ambiguity, the focus on the fine line between reality and unreality, that makes Martin so great.

Print courtesy of the Joe Dante and Jon Davison Collection at the Academy Film Archive.

Part of Nitehawk’s BITE THIS August midnite series.

Starring: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon

Feed the People, Bed Stuy is a mutual aid group that provides free meals for food shares, strikes and jail support. The group provides free meals and grocery distribution every Saturday in Herbert Von King Park. To make an additional $10 donation to Feed the People, Bed Stuy, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Few vampires are as cool and sexy as those in The Hunger’s love triangle. David Bowie. Catherine Deneuve. Susan Sarandon. Something strange starts to happen when a gerontologist researching sleep and aging gets entangled with a sensual vampire couple who hunt in the New York Club scene. After an incident with her lab primates expressing vampirish behavior, Dr. Sarah Roberts (Sarandon) meets a man named John (Bowie) who’s having difficulty dealing with the false promise of his lover (Deneuve). Apparently eternal life does not mean eternal youth once she’s done with you. Unfortunately, the next person is her sights for favorite is Sarah! Undead, undead, undead!

From Paul Thomas Anderson comes the dark, lovely and unique film experience that is PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE. Presented in 35mm!

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I’d get so panicked that I would stutter. – Adam Sandler

“A romantic comedy as wonderful as it is strange that expands the genre to its absurdist outer limits and makes us believe.” Adam Sandler gives an amazing and unusual performance as Barry Egan, a socially impaired owner of a small novelty business, who is dominated by seven sisters and is unlikely to find love unless it finds him. When a mysterious woman comes into his life, his emotions go haywire, fluctuating between uncontrollable rage, lust and self-doubt. Oh, and he’s also be extorted by a phone sex line owner.

Part of Nitehawk’s summer program COMEDIANS IN FILM (The Serious Comedian).

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield

Mickey and Mallory are a couple of psychotic serial killer lovers who kill people with joy, inventiveness, and without remorse. Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers is mesmerizing to watch and that makes sense because it’s a meditation on America’s (and the world’s) obsession with sensationalist tales and the media’s complicency in giving these stories fame. We can’t look away! A commentary of its time in the mid-1990s, twenty years later we can see how much (or how little) has changed in our consumptive media circus.

Arthouse comes to Midtown, when THE DEUCE presents Paul Morrissey’s BLOOD FOR DRACULA and legends of the SELYWN THEATRE, where this Euro-sleaze-shocko opened on February 21, 1975!

Plus: The famous ‘DEUCE Raffle’ and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

The blood of these whores is killing me! Udo Kier’s desperate, decrepit Dracula tours Italy’s Catholic countryside with assistant Arno Juerging in search of the purest virginal blood – the only blood that can nourish his desires and keep a healthy rose-color in his cheeks. But after discovering the Marchese de Fiore family’s farm and his four enchanting daughters, Drac quickly learns that these ladies can’t be trusted – especially when Joe Delleasndro is trimming their garden…

Made in Italy by Factory mainstay Paul Morrissey in conjunction with Flesh for Frankenstein (neither film with which Warhol had anything more to do other than putting his name on them for distribution), both films were slapped with X ratings upon release in America. And both were met with appallingly offended reviews – the extremes of their overtly sex-and-gore-laden silliness were too much for mainstream audiences to swallow. Outrageously over the top and oooozing with absurdity, Morrissey re-vamps the Dracula myth with some 1970s style Euro-sleaze-tease and titillation: Freudian overtones, Marxist parallels, and barrels of outlandish gore! Rape! Homo-erotic hunkiness!! Horrendous accents!!! Italian release title: Draculacerca sangue di vergine e… mori di sete!!!, literally “Dracula is searching for virgins’ blood, and… he’s dying of thirst!“

Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Bronx Brewery.

Nitehawk Nasties is back in September with a 35mm screening of Paul Morrissey’s FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN!

Many versions of Dr. Frankenstein and his monstrous creation have been made since Mary Shelley first wrote her gothic novel Frankenstein in 1818 but none quite as sickly amazing as the Paul Morrissey directed Flesh for Frankenstein. It is one of the more, shall we say, unique adaptations of the story as it takes elements from the book, James Whale’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein to make one over-the-top affair. Udo Kier stars as the fabulously mad scientist obsessed with creating his own beautiful monsters and for saying such truisms as, “To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life in the gallbladder.” Featuring really gorgeous people and outlandish gore, this film certainly doesn’t tackle the Frankenstein story in a conventional way but its inventiveness and insanity is what makes it so incredibly good.

Secret Formula presents…
Spoons, Toons & Booze Gets Banned

Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Cartoon Episodes Not Allowed on TV!

Do you miss your childhood Saturday mornings of waking up early to gorge on cereal and cartoons? If so, Secret Formula 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.

Here at Spoons, Toons & Booze, when someone tells us not to do something we pretty much have to do it. So, we’ve put together a collection of cartoons from the 1930?s through the 1990?s that were never allowed to be shown on TV, or aren’t allowed to be shown ever again, because they’re too violent, racist, filthy, seizure inducing, devil worshiping or just downright offensive. The censors can’t keep us down and we’ll be showing them all on the big screen just for you! Come and enjoy…

– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930?s through the 90?s and YOU get to choose what we watch!

– A special menu of cartoon episodes banned from TV!

– A free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolatey 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 sweet prizes from SecretFormula and Nitehawk Cinema.

This October, THE DEUCE takes you back to May of 1982 and the Lyric Theatre for Italo-gore-master Marino Girolami’s DR. BUTCHER, MD (aka ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST)! Introduction by Roy Frumkes.