Starring: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Jonathan Ke Quan, Kerri Green
With golf course developers threatening to displace an entire neighborhood, The Goonies set out to find hidden treasure in the hopes that they can buy off the construction. They find the map to “One-Eyed” Willy’s hidden pirate fortune but, unfortunately, it’s housed in a cavern underneath the evil thief Mama Fratelli and her sons. Traps, pirate ships, and danger awaits! Fortunately “Sloth” (one of the Fratelli brothers) befriends the group and helps them to vast treasures! Goonies never say die!
Comedian Kevin Maher and filmmaker Matthew Glasson present an obsessive look at shark movies from Jaws to Sharknado and dozens of films in-between. The hosts revisit early Shark cinema, Jaws rip-offs, sanctioned sequels, CGI monsters, and a hit TV show that literally jumped the shark.
Kevin and Matt have presented on Sharksploition in Boston, Brooklyn and Martha’s Vineyard at JAWSFEST.
With special guests:
- Filmmaker Ryan Arey (“Rick Pulsar: Galactic Knight of Space Justice”)
- Blogger/Podcaster Emily Intravia (DeadlyDollsHouse.Com & The Feminine Critique)
- Comedian Kevin Harrington (Boston’s GEEK WEEK)
The spotlight isn’t for everyone in Mike Birbiglia’s DON’T THINK TWICE.
New York improv Commune members Miles, Samantha, Jack, Allison, Bill and Lindsay invent comedy without a script and without a net. They’re ingenious, they’re fast, and they build on each others’ ideas like best friends – which they also are. Night after night they kill onstage and wait for their big break. Day after day they work menial jobs to support themselves. Then they get news that their theater is shutting down, and scouts from a hit TV show come to a performance looking for talent. Only two cast members get the nod, upsetting the dynamic of the group and leaving its future in doubt. Relationships begin to crack as six best friends face the truth that not all of them will make it, and for some, it may be time to give up on the dream and move on. Funny, insightful and honest, Don’t Think Twice looks at a common experience that’s an uncommon subject for a film: failure.
You know his name…JASON BOURNE.
Several years after his disappearance at the conclusion of The Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne unexpectedly resurfaces at a time when the world is faced with unprecedented instability. At the same time, a new program has been created to hunt him down while he is still trying to find all the answers to his past and family. This former CIA operative is about to remember.
Starring: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Nora Jane Noone, MyAnna Buring
Once year after a tragic accident, six girlfriends meet in a remote part of the Appalachians as part of their annual extreme outdoor adventure, in this case an exploration of a cave hidden deep within the woods. Far below the surface of the earth, disaster strikes, and there is no way out. The group splinters and each woman pushes on, praying for another exit. But there is something else lurking under the earth. As the friends realize they are now prey, they are forced to unleash their most primal instincts in an all-out war against unspeakable horror.
ART SEEN presents CALL HER APPLEBROOG, Beth B’s personal documentary on her mother, artist Ida Applebroog.
Screening before the film will be the new frieze video, Eileen Myles: A Poet in the Art World.
This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B (Exposed). Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog, now in her 80s, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her private journals. With her daughter’s encouragement, she investigates the stranger that is her former self, a woman who found psychological and sexual liberation through art. As Beth B finds a deeper understanding of her mother as a human being, Applebroog shares a newfound appreciation for her own provocative work. –MoMA Doc Fortnight
Starring: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Tim Thomerson
The vampires in Near Dark certainly aren’t your fancy aristocratic elite living in a distant castle. Oh no. Instead they’re a gun-toting gang that roams the American Southwest. This “family” isn’t so into the new guy Caleb who’s been “turned” by the alluring Mae rather than killing him. The fact that Caleb can’t really make a kill or pull his own weight definitely makes matters worse for the group. Still, it’s not easy being undead and so ensues a violent unfolding of action that has made an initially overlooked film into an eternal vampire classic.
A road trip turns into a horrifying fight for survival in Wes Craven’s THE HILLS HAVE EYES.
Nestled between Wes Craven’s rape-revenge Last House on the Left (1972) and his genre-defining A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) is his violently gritty The Hills Have Eyes…and it’s a doozy. Here Craven takes the idealized American road trip and turns it into a nightmare as the Carter family encounters an attack by a mutated cannibal family who survive by preying on travelers. This film shows that danger can lurk in every corner, even in amongst the great American landscape. Women, children, dogs, cannibals…no one is here is ever safe.
Justice isn’t a crime in HELL OR HIGH WATER.
Toby is a divorced father who’s trying to make a better life for his son. His brother Tanner is an ex-convict with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that’s about to foreclose on their family ranch. Standing in their way is Marcus, a Texas Ranger who’s only weeks away from retirement. As the siblings plot their final robbery, they must also prepare for a showdown with a crafty lawman who’s not ready to ride off into the sunset.
