Starring: David Thewlis, Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk

An English U.N. negotiator (David Thewlis) becomes stranded in the tropics with a mad scientist (Marlon Brando) who makes half-human beasts.

Starring: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, Ben Chaplin

Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), a down-on-his-luck horror writer, finds himself embroiled in a mystery after a local sheriff (Bruce Dern) and ghostly teenager V (Elle Fanning) reveal a history of murder and vampirism in their town.

Starring: Peter Frampton, The Bee Gees, Sandy Farina, Paul Nicholas, Donald Pleasance, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Billy Preston, Stargard, Earth Wind & Fire, George Burns

As 2025 flits away through our fingers like a fickle moth toward the flame of 2026 – The Deuce – once again and with much thanks – do invite YOU (ALL!!) to, again once again – just sit back and let the evening go… with but one humble request: may The Deuce introduce to YOU –  the one and only… SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND?!!? The MOVIE!! With nary a Beatle in sight… nor sound!??! “But.. what?? w\Without ANY Beatles?? “How do they do it?,” you ask… The answer is: with those hairy (for the most part) hunks (for the most part) – The Bee Gees!! And that “… Comes Alive!” heartthrob – Peter Frampton!! That’s how! And it’s guaranteed to raise… a smile!!

Well… ok… Some honesty here is duly deserved: there will be a… let’s say: “a moment”… of quite possibly the most painful movie-going you’ve ever experienced – namely: George Burns… More specifically: George Burns “singing” “Fixing A Hole”… horrendously so… and for some demented reason it is this big-eared, belabored debacle with which some sadist felt the film should be… front-loaded!?! Practically diffidently putting its worst foot forward as if in deliberate disregard of garnering any germ of good-will… a song has never felt so long… BUT – be brave! You will be saved! For – the moment those aforementioned hirsute Bee Gees hit the bandstand, the heretofore hairshirt of bad will that’s been brutally beating you into wanting to bolt for the nearest exit all but vanishes in a poof of candy-colored confectionary pop perfection!! Plunging unabashed into an ever-increasing piling on of eye-popping preposterosities and performances that against all odds hit infectiously giddy heights! A toupée‘d Donald Pleasance as a dastardly record exec belting “I Want You”!??! A dream come true!! The Bee Gees doubling (vocally) as the villainous Mr. Mustard’s robot henchwomen – The Computerettes!??! Genius!  And it just keeps getting better all the time! An Earth, Wind & Fire full-stage show of “Got To Get You Into My Life” – just for the heck of it? Hell yeh! Aerosmith’s hit-making heated-up “Come Together” – oh yes we will!! (“Safety” undergarments recommended if embarrassed by such…)  And on a personal confessionary note: Jeff’s 10-year-old-at-the-time-seeing-it self so believed the wonton sleaze of their “Future Villain Band” that he remains Aerosmith-afraid to this day!! And yet – Alice Cooper’s brain-washing Mr. Sun’s “Because” made him a forever fan… go figure! Then – just when you thought it couldn’t last – “Fifth Beatle” Billy Preston with the weather-vane spinning, Heartland saving “Get Back”!! Oh, God! Big-eared cigar-breath troll be damned!

Deemed a disaster of epic proportions upon its release – if not flat-out blamed for the demise of the movie musical genre as a whole (!) – despite being helmed by a veteran music-centric-movie maker, Michael Schultz (of Car Wash, Cooley High, and Krush Groove fame), built and backed by the hit-making RSO records and movie magnate Robert Stigwood (riding high on the likes of Jesus Christ Superstar and Saturday Night Fever... and – oh yeh – just plain high…), “SPLHCB” still reads as understandably fated to flopping from the get-go, having been loosed unto an era of Fab Four fans still fanning the flame of hope for more from The (actual) Beatles – or – at the very least – still deadly serious (nay “snobbish”?) about that which they held so dear and desperate to find the “deepness” they themselves built around… POP SONGS!??! To which The Deuce says: lighten up!! It’s a movie! It’s music! It’s FUN!! It’s friggin’ out-of-its-gourd bonkers!! A fantasia of frothy flippancy free to be but a bedazzling of fleeting moments… what could be called: a SHOW! And one we truly believe you will enjoy! After suffering the endurance test of its egregiously erroneous opening, at least!

It was 20 years ago today… uh… ok – like 47 and some change, actually – when the Cinerama 1 at Broadway and 47th Street ran its Daily News two-page SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND spread with the invitation: “Tonight, and only tonight, a very Special preview…” – which – 47 and some change years later – The Deuce is extending to YOU! With the greatest of gratitude… You’re such a lovely audience… we’d like to take you home with us – no – we’d LOVE to take you home! If only we had the room! It’s a NYC “bachelor” for chrissakes… could maybe fit like 2 of ya if you don’t mind bumpin’ knees… but – what the heck!?! Why not?!? It is, after all, getting very near the end… of 2025! But with a little help from our friends (and A LOT of help from our Nitehawk friends!) – The Deuce will see YOU ALL in 2026!!

Starring: Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Gay Hamilton, Diana Körner

How does an Irish lad without prospects become part of 18th-century English nobility? For Barry Lyndon (Ryan O’Neal) the answer is: any way he can! His climb to wealth and privilege is the enthralling focus of this sumptuous Stanley Kubrick version of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel.

Starring: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton

Steven Spielberg’s glorious Jaws is the film that defined the blockbuster and has made generations of movie-goers terrified of going into the water. When a giant great white sharks swims into the town of Amityville during the Fourth of July holiday and begins munching on vacationers, it sets off a battle on both land and in the sea.

The first half of Jaws is the struggle of New Yorker sheriff Brody is get the mayor on board with the idea that a man-eating shark is cause enough to close the beach. The second half is an adventurous boat trip with Brody, marine biologist “city hands” Hopper, and salty fisherman “chalkboard” Quint as they battle the shark on its own surf. In between, you get a lot of intensely scary moments. Trust us, you’ll never forget the first time you see that shark pop out of the water on the big screen!

Starring: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Willard E. Pugh, Akosua Busia

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie’s abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing “Mister” Albert Johnson (Danny Glover), things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable

Special guests Danny Reid and Kim Luperi, co-authors of the new book Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Era, join hosts Caroline Golum and Cristina Cacioppo to introduce the film. The book will be available for sale before and after the show courtesy of Terrace Books.

Heralded, alongside Baby Face, as one of Barbara Stanwyck’s most iconic pre-code roles, Night Nurse finds our tough-as-nails heroine “going straight” as a live-in caretaker for a pair of sickly society children trapped in a web of wealth and dysfunction. While their dipsomaniacal mother flits from bender to bender, household chauffeur Nick (a dastardly and dashing Clark Gable) takes household matters into his own hands – to lurid and shocking results!

Can Barbara, aided by co-star and “world’s greatest trooper” Joan Blondell, save these forlorn waifs from the jaws of destruction? How many times will our slinky stars change clothes on screen? And what’s really behind Gable’s pencil-thin mustache? Find out this month at the Pre-Code Parade!

Following this screening, join us in the bar for cocktail specials and merriment while also purchasing a copy of Pre-code Essentials!

Starring: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won

When a man is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he has worked tirelessly for many years, he grows increasingly desperate in his hunt.

Starring: Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, Bradley Cooper

As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family–forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity and whether love can take a new form.