Starring: Steve Martin, John Candy, Kevin Bacon, Michael McKean, Laila Robins
It’s a few days before Thanksgiving and Windy City ad-man Neal Page is stuck in New York for the world’s most pointless marketing meeting. With a holiday flight to catch, Neal looks forward to spending time with his family in just a few short hours. It was supposed to be easy. He wasn’t counting on a blizzard sending his flight to Kansas, and he definitely wasn’t counting on meeting chatty shower curtain ring salesman Del Griffith, his new partner in navigating the holiday hell of Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horror that seems to be only a few steps behind.
Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Carol Kane, Bob Goldthwait, David Johansen, Robert Mitchum, John Forsythe, Alfre Woodard
Charles Dickens’ classic tale A Christmas Carol has seen numerous adaptations but none are as darkly strange as the Bill Murray helmed Scrooged. As Frank Cross, he plays a television station executive known as much for his callousness and cruelty as for his money-making programming. This Christmas he’s in for a real life lesson. On the eve (Christmas Eve) of hosting a live broadcast of A Christmas Carol, Cross is visited by three ghosts who, well, you know the story…
Bia, Michele, Mariana and Renata are a clique of affluent high school girls. They waste away their days wandering the fields between the vertigo-inducing high rises in Barra da Tijuca, an affluent new neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Both privileged and abandoned by busy parents, the girls spend most of their time together. When a wave of murders begins to terrorize the neighborhood, the girls develop a morbid curiosity with the victims – and lines separating life, desire and death begins to break down.
Blending coming-of-age with slow-burning horror, partly inspired by the 1980s teen slasher genre, Kill Me Please is a disturbing and funny dive into teenage sexuality, spirituality, loneliness and fragility – as well as an ambitious feature debut by a young and promising Brazilian director, Anita Rocha da Silveira.
Winner of the Best Director (Fiction) and Best Actress award, given to Valentina Herszage, at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, KILL ME PLEASE was also an official selection at SXSW, Venice and New Directors / New Films film festivals.
GET OUT is a new speculative thriller featuring a young African-American man who visits his white girlfriend’s family estate and becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation.
Now that Chris and his girlfriend Rose have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with the family. At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined. Equal parts gripping thriller and provocative commentary, Get Out is written and directed by Jordan Peele (Key and Peele).
Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Vincent Price
Edward Scissorhands is a classic Tim Burton and Johnny Depp film about a small suburban town that receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward. A satire on the normality of Middle-America and their fear of outsiders. A magical fairytale story of loneliness, learning, and love; that will make you laugh, curse, and cry.
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First Course
Humiliation and Discomfort – savory Christmas cookies | rosemary | EVOO | Maldon sea salt
Winsome Wahini – Montelobos Mezcal | Reyka Vodka | lime | orange curacao | orgeat | demerara pineapple shrub
Second Course
Family Dinner – snap pea salad | radish | feta | fine herbs | ginger-carrot vinaigrette
A Touch of Lavender – Reyka Vodka | Lavender Honey | Butterfly Pea Shoot | Liquore Strega | Sparkling Wine
Third Course
Backyard BBQ – Ambrosia salad | deviled egg | cheese and salami skewer | beef and bell pepper kebab
Lemonade Two Ways –
1) Monkey Shoulder Scotch | lemon oil | thyme infused ice cube
2) thyme | meyer lemonade
Fourth Course
Diner – mini patty melt | American cheese | caramelized onions | caraway aioli | Martin’s potato roll
Just a Little Shock – Montelobos Mezcal | Lapsang Souchong | Smoked Maple Syrup | Black Walnut Bitters
Fifth Course
You Can’t Buy the Necessities of Life with a Cookie – assorted Christmas cookies
Ice Angel – Reyka Vodka | Key Lime | Condensed Milk | Coconut and Cinnamon Pearls
LIVING ON SOUL is a hybrid docu-concert film featuring the late Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley and the rest of the Daptone Records family. Filmed largely during Daptone’s December 2014 three-night, sold-out residency at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem, the documentary features a mixture of live performances and verité scenes that paint a robust picture of the Daptone family and culture.
The performances and stories bring to mind a bygone era of films, entertainment and craftsmanship. The documentary molds itself after The Last Waltz, Monterey Pop and Soul Power; and not since James Brown’s legendary residencies in the 70s has Harlem’s Apollo Theater played host to such an event.
BLOOD AND STEEL: CEDAR CREST COUNTRY CLUB is a feature documentary that tells the story of East Coast punk and skateboard history; one that’s untold to this day – recounted by the very pioneers from the D.C. hardcore punk music and skateboarding scene that created it. Cedar Crest was a ramp, but not just any ramp. It was a place of unadulterated freedom where cutting edge skateboarding and punk rock music collided and made history. The film takes the audience on a journey through the roots of east coast D-I-Y culture with the athletes, artists, bands and the characters that were there. It features notables such as Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), GWAR, and Tony Hawk as well as a long list of skateboarding legends.
It’s the story of a small town gorilla, Sylvio, who is stuck in his job at a debt collection agency. Deep down he just wants to express himself with his hand puppet, Herbert Herpels, and his puppet show that highlights the quiet moments of life. He accidentally joins a local TV program and a series of on-air mishaps threaten to shatter his identity, sending him on a journey of self-discovery.
