Starring: Paul Reubens, E.G. Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Tony Bill, Cassandra Peterson

Part of our recipe book series NITEHAWK CINEMA PRESENTS. Show your ticket at the bar after the movie to buy a copy of the book for only $20!

Pee-wee Herman has lost his only love, his red bicycle, and heads out on the biggest adventure this side of the Alamo to get it back. Along the way, he meets the most amazing people (from Francophile Simone to a tequila-loving motorcycle gang) but ultimately discovers what he likes most is right at home: Dotty and, of course, his bike. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is based on Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief and marks Tim Burton’s feature directorial debut. It’s also quite possibly one of the best movies to come out of the 20th century. Classic.

Spend Mother’s Day camping with Vorhees family in Sean Cunningham’s FRIDAY THE 13TH.

Things don’t go so well for the reopening of Camp Crystal Lake as the new counsellors are stalked and slashed…but by whom? As the site for a young boy’s drowning many years earlier, someone or something is none-too-pleased that a new batch of sexually crazed young adults who will be the caretakers of young children. Stemming from tropes established in Italian giallo films like anonymous killer-point-of-view stabs and punishment for sexual activities, Friday the 13th produces one of the most iconic “Final Girls” in horror (Alice Hardy) and has enduringly made teenage activities a frightening cautionary tale. No real spoilers from us so you’ll have to wait until the end to discover why its maternal instincts are series worthy.

Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents a very special screening of HIGH-RISE with the director Ben Wheatley!

Based on J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel, High-Rise shows Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. Laing quickly settles into high society life and meets the building’s eccentric tenants: Charlotte, his upstairs neighbor and bohemian single mother; Wilder, a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife Helen; and Mr. Royal, the enigmatic architect who designed the building. Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.

On Demand, Amazon Video and on iTunes April 28. In theatres May 13.

Celebrate Administrative Assistant’s Day here at Nitehawk with our favorite WORKING GIRL!

Mike Nichols’ witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle stars Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill, an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss (Sigourney Weaver) Breaks a leg skiing, Tess simply takes over her office, her apartment, even her wardrobe. She then creates a deal with a handsome investment banker (Harrison Ford) that will either take her straight to the top – or finish her off for good.

Have a DAZED AND CONFUSED FILM FEAST with your buds Nitehawk and Lagunitas that you’ll never forget (if only you could remember).

Anniversary Note: Nitehawk’s FILM FEASTS was first served in October 2012 with a screening of Apocalypse Now with Sixpoint Brewery. Dazed and Confused marks the fourth time we’ve collaborated with Lagunitas Brewing Company.

It’s the last day of school in the summer of ’76, and the kids of Lee High school are busting loose. Like most high school kids, they’re a cliquey bunch – there’s the jocks, the burnouts, the geeks, the mean girls, the freshmen, the gearheads – but if there’s one thing that unifies the lot of them, it’s the need for some good ol’ worthwhile visceral experience. As the long Texas night settles in, the kids bounce from a busted house party, to a pool hall, to a field-kegger for the ages all while debating life’s immortal questions: Who am I? When will I get out of this podunk town? Where’s the beer?

As always, our Film Feasts serve each dish at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!

MENU

WAKE ‘N’ BAKE
breakfast Sausage, sunny side up egg, tickler cheddar, baked puff pastry
Beer pairing – Lagunitas IPA

FRESHMAN PIGGIES
pigs in a blanket, ketchup, yellow mustard
Beer pairing – Lagunitas Sucks

LOW RIDER JOINT
Texas style taquito, braised chicken, cotija cheese, dill weed, smoked tomato salsa
Beer pairing – Lagunitas Little Sumptin’

TOP NOTCH BURGER
pickled jalapeños, queso, baby arugula, Martin’s Roll, “soggy” salt and vinegar fries
Beer pairing – Lagunitas Ultra-Mega-Mondo-Red Ale

PARTY AT THE MOONTOWER
oatmeal and chocolate Moon”Tower” Pie
Beer pairing – Lagunitas Censored

Menu items subject to change, no substitutions.

In the sci-fi thriller MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, a father goes on the run to protect his young son and uncover the truth behind the boy’s special powers.

What starts as a race from religious extremists and local law enforcement quickly escalates to a nationwide manhunt involving the highest levels of the Federal Government. Ultimately his father risks everything to protect Alton and help fulfill a destiny that could change the world forever, in this genre–defying film as supernatural as it is intimately human.

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

Then join comedian Kevin Maher as he explores some of the strangest depictions of pop culture’s greatest villain: Lucifer. It’s a two-hour video variety show filled with Satanic Panic, Deals with the Devil and Satanimation in 80’s cartoons.

Co-hosted by returning favorites:

Tenebrous Kate (writer & illustrator, HERETICAL SEXTS, SLUTIST and HEATHEN HARVEST)
Paul Murphy (filmmaker, RED OBSESSION)

Plus special guests:
Lucien Greaves (co-founder of The Satanic Temple)
Landis Darling (burlesque performer)

Starring: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy

Edgar Wright’s dark-romantic-comedy Shaun of the Dead is a lively contemporary contribution to the zombie genre with its comment on society’s preoccupation with being, well, preoccupied. Two thirty-something losers, Shaun and Ed, don’t notice the signs that a zombie outbreak has hit London until one (their roommate) walks into the living room. For the first time in their lives, the slackers take some initiative by rescuing friends and family while Shaun also tries to prove to his estranged girlfriend he has more than just a desire to sit at the pub all day. A trope of zombie films is that the living dead and the living return to the places most familiar so you know where this ends…with a pint!

A London reporter has the scoop on the end of the world in the British science-fiction classic THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE.

Peter Stenning is a depressed British reporter who gets by with the help of his friend, veteran journalist Bill Maguire. Along with weather forecaster Jeannie Craig, they discover that the simultaneous nuclear explosions set off by the United States and Russia have drastically altered the earth’s rotation. Fires and earthquakes ravage cities all over the world, and chaos and sickness descend upon the frightened survivors as they try to put the planet back on its axis. Directed and co-written by Val Guest (The Quatermass Experiment), The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a clever work of speculative fiction that, like the other films in our series, reveals a terrifyingly real post-apocalyptic existence.

Part of Nitehawk’s May THE WASTE LAND brunch and midnite series.

Starring: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine

In 2027 women have inexplicably become infertile and the world is in a steady, chaotic decline. Set in London, Children of Men shows the grittiness and violence that emerges from society knowing there isn’t a future. In this realistic imagining of the world’s end, all hope seems to be lost. But, eighteen years since the last baby was born, a disillusioned bureaucrat becomes an unlikely champion of the human race when he is asked by his former lover to escort a young pregnant woman out of England as quickly as possible. In a thrilling race against time, he will risk everything to deliver the miracle the whole world has been waiting for…new life.