Starring: Christopher Atkins, Ari Meyers, Amanda Wyss, Roddy McDowall, Typhoon

This October, The Deuce gets up to some seriously silly monkey business with the Ren-Faire-flirting simian scare: SHAKMA!

Drugged-up, thought to be dead but actually totally bat-shit pissed-off baboon goes ballistic on a bunch of boring med-student… LARPers!! Yes!! They’re LARPing! In the Med-Lab! With a murdering mad monkey afoot making mince-meat of most of those LARP-loving loonies!!

Inbetwixt tinkering inside baboon brains with the nebulous notion of “abating aggression” – Med-School Prof-In-Charge (Roddy McDowall literally phoning – or, rather, walkie-talkie-ing it in) prefers taking on the role of… The Dungeonmaster!! Live D & D-ing with his doofus dweeb doctors-to-be in regular sessions of laboratory lock-down LARP-fests! But one wrong hypo later and they got a bonkers baboon bogging down their “Save The Princess” shenanigans! And this mean be-maned monkey – despite his deceptively diminutive size –  is one surly shocker!! Banging on closed doors! Breaking all he gets his mitts on!! Mauling!! Murdering!! Banging on more closed doors! Said bat-shit baboon, Shakma, can’t be stopped!

Barely bigger than the rats scurrying under the flea-bitten feet of Times Square’s flummoxed Cine 42 “crowd” – Shakma portrayer – a baboon known as “Typhoon” by his handler buddies at “Action Animals” – is one tumultuous tornado of ferocious fury!! Flailing… screeching… scoffing – nigh, spitting – at Blue Lagoon’s Christopher Atkins’s sad-sack sap Sam’s attempts to “soothe” the beast… fuming with hatred and bloodlust!! Banging on all those closed doors with indescribable deliberation!! As the titular simian Typhoon tops his previous turn in Cronenberg’s The Fly – earning himself a title spot in “The 25 Best Animal Attacks In Movie History (with video)” !! The Deuce doesn’t monkey around!

Starring: Gary Frank, Ray Parker Jr, Tony Todd, Stacey Dash, Frances Foster, Jan-Michael Vincent

September’s gonna be a sizzler – when The Deuce takes you deep into.. ENEMY TERRITORY!!

Blasé by-the-books insurance broker finds his doofus white-privilege derriere in a panic when his money-grubbing groveling gets him trapped in a terrorized NYC housing project… lorded over by Candyman Tony Todd’s “The Count” and his ghoulish gang of murderous minions – “The Vampires”!! When said in-danger derriere is somewhat saved by “who-ya-gonna call” Ray Parker Jr.’s telephone repairman and a rag-tag mix of fed-up-with-The Vampires misfits (including the shut-in wheelchair-bound bigot survivalist ‘nam vet, Jan-Michael Vincent!) barriers such as race, socio-economic disparities and the like – all begin to dissipate… and give way to… Community! Communication! Compassion! Humans bonding in the face of shared peril!! And boy does that get The Vampires all in a tizzy!! It’s ballistic!! Full of ball-breaking bravado!! Taut with tension!! And TENDER!!

An atypical entry in producer – Empire Pictures/Full Moon magnate – Charles Band’s mammothly miasmic filmography: well-written – with an actual character arc – and shot with style and energy by Spike Lee’s longtime DP Ernest Dickerson – eschewing the usual Band ballyhoo of micro-budget monsters or “special” effects for a more true-grit… ENEMY TERRITORY could allllmost be considered an “A-pic” by comparison – were it not for its gloriously grindhouse-y giddiness!!

Join The Deuce in ENEMY TERRITORY – aka Times Square’s Selwyn Theatre – this September – and see if you can survive the night!!

It was the end of the seventies. Surrounded by wheat fields, cowboys, and cars, four bespectacled misfits in Kansas — Bill Goffrier, Brent Giessmann, John Nichols, and Ron Klaus — grabbed instruments and blasted out “a ravenous strain of rock ‘n’ roll” as tuneful, brainy, and enthralling as anything coming from the coasts. They worshipped the Stooges and witnessed the Sex Pistols bring punk to the Great Plains, igniting within them an uncontrolled prairie fire to do-it-themselves.

As the Embarrassment, they threw a house- wrecking party and invited “a thousand loving friends” into their underground world of “weirdo New Wave freaks” in Wichita and beyond. They played Chicago, D.C., and New York, drawing the attention of influential figures like Allen Ginsberg, John Cale, and Jonathan Demme. But their independence and refusal to sell out sparked tension within the group and kept mainstream success at bay, meaning they never quite claimed their rightful place in American rock history alongside other post-punk icons like Hüsker Dü, Mission of Burma, Pylon, Wipers, the Replacements, R.E.M., and Minutemen.

Through original interviews, restored concert footage, the band’s inimitable songs, and appearances by fans including Evan Dando, Freedy Johnston, Grant Hart, and Thomas Frank, this documentary shows how the Embarrassment rose out of nowhere in Reagan-era Middle America to become a post-punk legend that’s almost been forgotten — until now.

Followed by an after party in Trees Lounge with DJ Harry Howes from Almost Ready Records

Warning: Images are not from the movies we’re showing. Trust us, you can’t imagine what we’re showing!

It’s the Hong Kong Chainsaw Massacre! This Sunday on Fire, Subway Cinema and Nitehawk deliver a fast and grotty roughie written on the fly and shot on the cheap, where old school kung fu fights break out every ten minutes to deliver a two-fisted kung fu foodie horror flick with a multiple personality disorder and a case of the screaming mimis made by one of Hong Kong’s most famous directors at the very start of his career.

We’re not going to reveal the title of this gore-gore masterpiece until it appears onscreen, but this movie could comfortably fill out the bottom slot of a 42nd Street grindhouse double bill. Filmed in delirious carnage-vision, and presented on 35mm, the aesthetic model for this movie is the Coney Island sideshow: crude, tacky, in bad taste, and more fun than a barrel of (carnivorous) monkeys.

Starring: Marilia Pêra, Richard Ulacia, Rodney Harvey, Angel David, Geraldine Smith, Linda Kerridge, John Leguizamo

Print courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Cool your heels this August at The Deuce with a holy-grail of hilarity: Paul Morrissey’s riotous and rarely screened send-up of drug-war movie mores – MIXED BLOOD!!

Opposing drug “families” fight for dope-dealing supremacy in the bombed-out, trash-strewn, junkie-filled streets of 80s “Alphabet City” – where fiery Brazilian drug-tsarista Rita La Punta forbids her hunky monosyllabic mass of flesh son, Thiago, from venturing anywhere above 14th Street!! Trash-talking and race-baiting… where the heat on the street is double-dealing beat-cops… and then there’s the Menudo store shoot-out!

Sure – it played downtown in “the village” – at the Waverly (now, the “IFC Center”) – where one would expect to find such wacky fare… but we, being “The Deuce”, are more excited to be dropping in on its 1-week run at the “Make Them Die Slowly” Liberty Theatre with all the whacked-out, cranked up kook-a-palooza Deuce denizens drooling in befuddled bemusement at Morrisey’s mischievous trickster’s take on a topic all-too familiar!!

Starring: Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan

The Future of Film is Female presents a special screening of BLOCKERS featuring a Q&A with director Kay Cannon! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

The directorial debut by Kay Cannon (writer Pitch Perfect, director Cinderella), Blockers is a film that will make you laugh until you cry and cry at parenthood until you laugh. When three parents (played by John Cena, Leslie Mann and Ike Barinholtz) stumble upon their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal. Hailed as the “perfect comedy for the current era” by Vanity Fair, Blockers is a gender-swapped spin on the classic teen sex comedy, filled with outrageous antics from the parents as their daughters take control of their epic prom night. A certified FOFIF favorite!

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, Tom Hulce, John Turturro, Benicio del Toro

When Max Klein (Jeff Bridges) survives a plane crash that kills many others, his last-minute epiphanies bring him a sense of invulnerability, leading to radical behavior. Instead of contacting his wife (Isabella Rossellini) after the crash, he sets off on a trip to see his old girlfriend, eats foods he was allergic to previously, and is strangely unafraid to fly again. Can a psychologist (John Turturro) and a fellow guilt-ridden survivor (Rosie Perez) help bring him down to earth?

Starring: Rosie Perez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Patti LuPone, Karen Duffy, Diego Serrano, Wendell Pierce

Grace (Rosie Perez) is a motivated career woman, married to the co-host (Diego Serrano) of a show she produces on television. When she finds out that she’s pregnant, she is surprised, apprehensive and immediately shoved into the spotlight when her boss, Joan, (Patti LuPone) uses Grace’s pregnancy to draw in viewers. Grace must struggle to be the ideal wife and mother, all the while maintaining her sanity at work with the help of her assistant, Madeline (Marianne Jean-Baptiste).

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray, Stephen Tobolowsky

Single mother Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) couldn’t be more different, and it is driving them both insane. After receiving cryptic fortunes at a Chinese restaurant, the two wake up the next day to discover that they have somehow switched bodies. Unable to switch back, they are forced to masquerade as one another until a solution can be found. In the process, they develop a new sense of respect and understanding for one another.

Starring: Brian Bedford, Peter Ustinov, Phil Harris, Roger Miller, Pat Buttram

An amiable rooster called Alan-a-Dale (Roger Miller) tells stories and sings songs of the heroic Robin Hood (Brian Bedford) and his trusty sidekick, Little John (Phil Harris), in this animated animal-themed adaptation of the legendary story. When evil Prince John (Peter Ustinov) deputizes the Sheriff of Nottingham (Pat Buttram) to collect unreasonable taxes from the animals of Sherwood Forest, Robin, Little John and the other merry men wage a lighthearted battle against their evil foes.