Starring: Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay, Mamoudou Athie, Cathy Moriarty, McCaul Lombardi, Patrick Brana

Aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, aka Patti Cake$, is fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown where her life is falling apart. Patti tries to reach the big time in the hip-hop scene with original and affecting music. Cheered on by her grandmother and only friends, Jheri and Basterd, Patti also shoulders her mother’s heartaches and misfortunes.

He was the pride of Bayonne, New Jersey, a man who went fifteen rounds in the ring with Muhammad Ali, and the real life inspiration for Rocky Balboa. But before all that, Chuck Wepner (Liev Schreiber) was a liquor salesman and father with a modest prizefighting career whose life changed overnight when, in 1975, he was chosen to take on The Greatest in a highly publicized title match. It’s the beginning of a wild ride through the exhilarating highs and humbling lows of sudden fame—but what happens when your fifteen minutes in the spotlight are up? Driven by a committed performance from Liev Schreiber, Chuck is a refreshingly human tale of resilience and redemption. Elisabeth Moss and Naomi Watts costar.

Starring: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning

The Beguiled is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writer/director Sofia Coppola. The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.

Comedian Kevin Maher returns to Nitehawk Cinema for this video variety show celebrating iconic movie monsters.

Each guest pays tribute to his/her favorite version of a famous creature. Come see rare footage and hear dynamic discussions about the vampire, the Frankenstein Monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and many more monsters.

We’ll look at everything from classic films to bizarre remakes and unusual re-imaginings.

See why DailyGrindhouse.com called Kevin Geeks Out “like TED Talks for Midnight Movies.”

With special guests:

• Amber Dextrous (from Kevin Geeks Out About Tobe Hooper)
• Jon Abrams (editor-in-chief at DailyGrindhouse.com)
• Kevin Rice (writer/producer/director of GHOUL A-GO-GO)
• Kevin Harrington (from THE HADRON GOSPEL HOUR)
• Chris Smith (co-host of the READ IT AND WEEP podcast)
• Jack Theakston (Projectionist and Film Historian)

In suburban Perth during the mid 1980s, people are unaware that women are disappearing at the hands of serial killer couple John and Evelyn White. After an innocent lapse in judgment, seventeen year old Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted by the disturbed couple. With her murder imminent, Vicki realizes she must find a way to drive a wedge between Evelyn and John if she is to survive. Hounds of Love is an exercise in expertly-crafted tension, offering a bold, challenging debut from writer/director Ben Young.

Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with ALIEN: COVENANT, a new chapter in his groundbreaking ALIEN franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.

From director Makoto Shinkai, the innovative mind behind Voices of a Distant Star and 5 Centimeters Per Second, comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls.

The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other. Yet, somehow, it works. They build a connection and communicate by leaving notes, messages, and more importantly, an imprint.

When a dazzling comet lights up the night’s sky, it dawns on them. They want something more from this connection—a chance to meet, an opportunity to truly know each other. Tugging at the string of fate, they try to find a way to each other. But distance isn’t the only thing keeping them apart. Is their bond strong enough to face the cruel irony of time? Or is their meeting nothing more than a wish upon the stars?

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THE EYESLICER is a new punk rock variety TV show collecting America’s boldest short-form filmmaking into hourlong visual mixtapes that will mince your retinas into delicious ceviche.

Fresh off the show’s world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, join us for the first ever screening of three never-before-seen episodes of The Eyeslicer:

Episode 101: Paint Your Dreams at Night
Episode 103: Digital Sensations
Episode 104: School Spirit Plummets

Featuring talking toilets, tamagotchis, karaoke hits about the singularity, a live web stream of your own birth, a Faces of Death-inspired virginity experience, pilot lessons for the Washington Generals, overnight bus rides through Silicon Valley, faking sick to get high on the beach, police at a high school prom, the closing of Blockbuster video, rollerskating, love poetry, Facebook prostitution, mask-making, gymnastics, haunted high school yearbooks, parents getting turned into cats, and much, much more.

Plus, immediately following the screening two special guests will present a LIVE GENITAL HEALTH PRESENTATION.

Directed by Jack Dunphy, Augustine Frizzell, Leah Shore, Elizabeth Lo, Ornana, Zach Jones, Joanna Arnow, Bradley Bischoff, Sasha Gransjean, Ryan Weibush, Jillian Mayer & Lucas Levya, Garrett Bradley, Ben Wheele and C. Spencer Yeh, Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan, Harrison Atkins, Daniel Laabs, Christopher Radcliff, Kelly Sears, Colin Healey, Izzi Galindo, Jennifer Reeder, and The Eyeslicer.

Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Asia Argento, Rose Byrne, Steve Coogan, Marianne Faithfull

Based on the biography of Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette takes a luscious look on the misunderstood Queen of France. By incorporating modern elements with the soundtrack and other periodic anachronistic objects, Coppola adds to her trilogy of films that explore life defining experiences of young women by making the 18th century accessible. Marie Antoinette, born in Austria and married off to become the Queen of France at a ridiculously young age, was a complex historical character who indulged, loved, and lost on extreme terms.

Ben Wheatley brings us the mind-blowing genre masterpiece, KILL LIST.

A brilliant blend of family drama, hitman action-thriller and terrifying psychological horror film, Kill List tells the story of an ex-soldier turned contract killer who is plunged into the heart of human darkness. Eight months after a disastrous hit job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, Jay is pressured by his partner Gal, into taking a new assignment. As they descend into the bizarre, disturbing world of the contract, Jay’s world begins to unravel until fear and paranoia sending him reeling towards a horrifying point of no return.