Starring: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Martin Sheen, Tom Skerritt

After waking up from a five-year coma following a terrible car accident, Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) discovers that he’s able to see into the future when holding people’s hands…and they can see it too. Most frightening is his unique ability to also change the future which takes an already uneasy gift into a truly horrible nightmare. Penned by Stephen King and directed by corporeal master David Cronenberg, The Dead Zone asks about the responsibility of knowing something bad is going to happen and takes audiences into this liminal space between life and death.

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze, Drew Barrymore

The complexities of Richard Kelly’s seminal film Donnie Darko are as rich as the concept of time travel itself. When young Donnie escapes death (by a fallen plane engine in his bedroom), a sequence of events unfold that weave together people, events, time and space on a finite loop, all leading up to the inevitable conclusion that rectifies the world.

Portals, teenage angst, God, and hallucinations that include a giant bunny rabbit named Frank play out spectacularly in this new midnight movie cult classic. Basically, Donnie Darko takes the typical teen struggle genre to a whole new existential level complete with an incredible period soundtrack and ultra-creepy Patrick Swayze.

Starring: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter

The lovely Pam Grier plays Foxy Brown (aka “a whole lotta woman”), a sexy bad ass who takes on a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. But it’s not even that straight-forward. He dead boyfriend was a governmental agent and those gangsters? Why, they’re a perverted and kinky couple. She also saves a drug addicted woman along the way. Violent and sexual (oh yes, there’s castration), Foxy Brown is a staple in the blaxploitation genre.

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox

The western genre meets the horror genre in this intense portrayal of an outdoor buddy weekend gone severely wrong. When four Atlanta city slickers decide to spend the weekend on Northern Georgia’s Cahulawassee River, they know that the mode of thinking is different in the country but don’t realize the extent of that difference until it’s too late. Encountering generations of inbreeding with a group of hillbilly moonshiners, they face difficult life-and-death decisions that could mean the difference of going home or never getting out alive.

A very varied group of people are in a precarious situation aboard a plane flying to Mexico City.

A technical failure has endangered the lives of the passengers on Peninsula Flight 2549. The pilots, hardened, experienced professionals are striving, along with their colleagues in the Control Center, to find a solution. The flight attendants and the chief steward are atypical, baroque characters who, in the face of danger, try to forget their own personal problems and devote themselves body and soul to the task of making the flight as enjoyable as possible for the passengers, while they wait for a solution. Life in the clouds is as complicated as it is at ground level, and for the same reasons, which could be summarized in two: sex and death.

The travelers in Business Class consist of a pair of newlyweds, partygoers, worn out by their wedding celebration; a financier and embezzler; unscrupulous in business but also a father afflicted by his daughter’s estrangement; an inveterate Don Juan with an uneasy conscience who is trying to say goodbye to one of his women (girlfriends); a rural psychic; a queen of the gossip magazines and a Mexican with an important secret. Each of them has a project in Mexico City, either to work or to escape. They all have some kind of secret, not just the Mexican.

Their defenselessness in the face of danger provokes a general catharsis among the passengers and the crew, and this ends up becoming the best way to escape from the idea of death. This catharsis, developed in the tone of a riotous, moral comedy, fills the time with sensational confessions that help them forget the anguish of the moment.

Nitehawk Cinema Presents:
Spirits, Dinner and a Movie with The Dead Rabbit
GANGS OF NEW YORK

In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father’s killer.

Nitehawk’s launches its new signature series SPIRITS, DINNER AND A MOVIE this August as we’ve teamed up with The Dead Rabbit (2013 Tales of the Cocktail World’s Best New Cocktail Bar) to present Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. This screening will include incredible crafted cocktails by The Dead Rabbit paired with a delicious food menu inspired by the film. The best part? You’ll be served each course during the specific moments inspired by the film so you can experience edible sensations while watching the action unfold on-screen!

Jack McGarry (2013 Tales of the Cocktail International Bartender of the Year) and Sean Muldoon join us from The Dead Rabbit.

Giving us some of the classic representations of gangsters in cinema, Gangs of New York is Martin Scorsese’s epic love letter to the gritty roots of New York City. At heart, it’s a revenge movie about a young man who returns to New York in order to avenge the death of his father by rival gang member, Bill the Butcher (one of the most memorable performances in film by Daniel Day Lewis). But it’s also about immigration, territory disputes, and the changing landscape of America in the mid 19th century. Larger than life, the film has it all: history, love, loyalty, revenge, and true o.g. gang violence.

Food & Cocktail Menu*
Bill The Butcher
Redbreast 12 Year Old Irish Whiskey, poire eau de vie, lemon sherbet, Dead Rabbit Orinoco Bitters, mace tincture, boiling water, freshly grated nutmeg 

The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, director Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being better son to his mother, whose birthday falls on New Year’s Eve, being a better partner to his girlfriend Sophina , who he hasn’t been completely honest with as of late, and being a better father to Tatiana, their beautiful four year-old daughter. Crossing paths with friends, family and strangers, Oscar starts out well, as the day goes on, he realizes that changes are not going to come easily. His resolve takes a tragic turn, however, when BART officers shoot him in cold blood at the Fruitvale subway stop on New Year’s Day. Oscar’s life and tragic death would shake the Bay Area – and the entire nation – to its very core.

Director Richard Lerner in person for the Friday night screening!

One of the sequels spawns from the original 1973 flick Cheerleaders, Revenge of the Cheerleaders features a squad of naughty students who fight for their school!

Can we get a N-A-U-G-H-T-Y? Richard Lerner’s sex comedy Revenge of the Cheerleaders surely doesn’t reflect everyone’s high school experience but that just makes it all the more fun. The cheerleading team at Aloha High are a bunch of popular ladies who are all about underage sex and drug use, naturally. But their naughty high jinx are the catalyst for major changes as in comes the new principal about to whip them into shape. Still, as they continue to spread school spirit things get sinister when the principal gets kidnapped and the ladies are forced to save the day! David Hasselhoff included.

Part of the Nitehawk Naughties signature series.

Starring: Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau

Perhaps the quintessential cult vampire movie (and the most dazzling take on Countess Elizabeth Bathory on film), Daughters of Darkness pits four dysfunctional people against each other in a desolate winter resort. Newlyweds Stefan and Valerie stop in Belgium during their honeymoon but there’s problems brewing: Stefan is embarrassed by the inferior bloodline of his new wife and doesn’t want to introduce him to his mother (in truly creepy and odd aside). Meanwhile, young female virgins are being found dead left-and-right because the stunning vampire Elizabeth (the breathy Delphine Seyrig) and her sexy protégé Ilona have come into town and their desires must be met.

Why have a Moulin Rouge! Sing-Along? Because we can, can, can! We’re taking the 90’s jukebox musical sensation and putting it up on the big screen so you (and the whole crowd) can sing along and pretend that it really is Your Song. With a soundtrack that includes Nirvana, The Police, The Beatles, David Bowie, Madonna, Elton John, Queen and the oh so sexy song Lady Marmalade this is going to be one out of control Sing-Along. This one is for all the fans of truth, beauty, freedom and love!

– Dress up in your best turn of the century Parisian clothes or as the Magic Sitar, the Green Fairy or as your favorite courtesan or bohemian for the Moulin Rouge! Costume Contest!

– Party with your fellow Moulin Rouge! fans and interact with the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show style with fun props, drinking games and shout outs during the film!

– Compete for prizes in contests like the Can-Can Dance Off and the Moulin Rouge! Trivia Contest!

– Enjoy themed cocktails like the Green Fairy and the Spectacular Spectacular!

– Get there early to grab a seat and watch a pre-show of Moulin Rouge! themed entertainment!