Starring: Craig Denney, Darrien Earle, Arthyr Chadbourne

In the tradition of The Holy Mountain, Pink Flamingos and The Room comes a slice of batsh*t cinema that must be viewed at midnight. This rarely screened cult oddity is a fascinating passion project (the sole film from director/star Craig Denny) that combines carny mysticism, international high adventure and a Christ allegory for good measure. After Craig Denny (in his egomaniacal glory) failed to secure rights to The Moody Blues tunes heard throughout the film, THE ASTROLOGER never received an official release.

In an era where the trashiest, weirdest films are getting 4k scans from Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome and Shout! Factory, THE ASTROLOGER remains a quaint reminder of tape-trading days and the golden age of cult films. Here is a movie that will most likely NEVER receive an official Blu-Ray or DVD. Not only do you need to see this on the big screen with a wild midnite audience… you have to.

This may be your only chance to see THE ASTROLOGER in 2018.

Starring: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O’Shea

Release Date: October 16, 1968

Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humor, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favorite.

The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards, in an uninhibited manner, the handsome men who assist her in the adventure. Whether she is wrestling with Black Guards, the evil Queen, or the Angel Pygar, she just can’t seem to avoid losing at least a part of her skin-tight space suit!

Starring: Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton

Release Date: September 12, 1968

Marianne Faithfull stars as Rebecca, a bored housewife who bolts from her home in the French countryside to visit her lover, Daniel, in Germany. Wearing nothing but a form-fitting black leather suit (the film was originally called Naked Under Leather in the U.S.), the lusty Rebecca races across the country, and in flashback remembers the start of their affair. She recalls the initial, furtive glances in her father’s bookstore, her elaborate sexual fantasies and their long-awaited consummation. Most important of all is the motorcycle itself, a gift from Daniel that seems to give her more pleasure than any man could deliver.

Directed by legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff in pulsating psychedelic hues, GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE has emerged from obscurity to become more than a cult favorite; it is a touchstone film of 1960s Euro youth culture.

Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford

Release Date: September 19, 1968

FUNNY GIRL follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice, a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar for Best Actress.

As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break at Keeney’s Music Hall, her hilarious debut as a roller-skating chorus girl gets her hired as a comedienne. A year later Fanny is working for Florenz Ziegfeld in his famous Follies and brings the house down with an outrageous and unplanned number. Fanny becomes a star, falls in love and marries Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), a handsome gambler whose luck doesn’t hold up. The film’s many memorable songs include “Don’t Rain On My Parade” and the Streisand classic “People.”

Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig

Release Date: September 4, 1968

Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightful Stolen Kisses, the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually love-struck Doinel has been dishonorably discharged from the army and released onto the streets of Paris, where he stumbles into the unlikely profession of private detective and embarks on a series of misadventures. Whimsical, nostalgic, and irrepressibly romantic, STOLEN KISSES is Truffaut’s timeless ode to the passion and impetuosity of youth.

Starring: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leone Greene

Release Date: July 20, 1968

The debonair Duc de Richleau has been trusted with the care of his deceased friend’s son, Simon Aron. The Duc discovers that the young man has been seduced into joining a Satanic cult headed by the diabolic Mocata, who is intent on making Simon one of the Devil’s disciples. Having rescued Simon from a bloodied ritual, de Richleau is pursued by Mocata, who will stop at nothing to destroy the Duc and his friends, even summoning the Angel of Death itself.

Starring horror legend Christopher Lee in one of his personal favorite roles and based on the celebrated novel by Dennis Wheatley, THE DEVIL RIDES OUT is one of Hammer’s most accomplished and thrilling mystery horrors.

Starring: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Sandor Funtek, Thomas Trabacchi, Karina Fernandez, Calvin Demba, Francesco Colella

The new film NICO, 1988 follows the singer-songwriter, approaching 50, leading a solitary existence in Manchester, far from her 60s glam days as a Warhol superstar and celebrated vocalist for cult band The Velvet Underground. Her life and career on the fringes, Nico’s new manager Richard convinces her to hit the road again and tour Europe to promote her latest album. Struggling with her demons and the consequences of a muddled life, she longs to rebuild a relationship with her son, whose custody she lost long ago. A brave and uncompromising musician, Nico’s story is the story of a rebirth: of an artist, a mother, and the woman behind the icon.

Starring: Rachelle Vinberg, Jaden Smith, Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran, Ajani Russell, Kabrina Adams

In the first narrative feature from THE WOLFPACK director Crystal Moselle, Camille, an introverted teenage skateboarder from Long Island, meets and befriends an all-girl, New York City-based skateboarding crew called Skate Kitchen. She falls in with the in-crowd, has a falling-out with her mother, and falls for a mysterious skateboarder guy, but a relationship with him proves to be trickier to navigate than a kickflip.

Writer/director Crystal Moselle immersed herself in the lives of the skater girls and worked closely with them, resulting in the film’s authenticity, which combines poetic, atmospheric filmmaking and hypnotic skating sequences. SKATE KITCHEN precisely captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery.

Starring: Judy Lee Chia-ling, Peter Yang Kwan, Lee Ying

This August, THE DEUCE-Jockeys team up with our pal Grady Hendrix of Subway Cinema, for a trip to the Empire Theatre and Florence Yu’s QUEEN BOXER!!

“Shanghai,” the narrator intones. “Are the streets paved in gold, or do they run with blood?” In QUEEN BOXER, it’s mostly blood. One of the few Hong Kong action movies directed by a woman – it’s also the debut feature for Judy Lee, the only Bruce Lee impersonator who was actually female. Sold as Bruce Lee’s sister (a stunt thought up by the production company for which Lee eventually had to publicly apologize), Judy Lee dazzles as the deadly dame dealing with dastardly dickheads until she’s finally had it up to here with their asshole behavior and spends the entire last reel beating them to death with her bare hands…

Unleashed for the first time on film (after spending 11 years training in Peking Opera), Lee is an insanely physical actor, and the final punch-a-geddon is so epically brutal, it’s become legendary. Adding angel dust to this old school kung fu crack cocktail is the fact that this 18-day-quickie production is packed with off-kilter editing, insane camera angles, stolen music cues, plentiful gore, and pissed-off women tearing out eyeballs to the sweet, sweet sound of Isaac Hayes’ “Theme from Shaft” – making it the ultimate grindhouse experience!!