Starring: Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby
Can a man and a woman be just friends? Or does sex always ruin it? Penned by Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally is a classic romantic comedy that chronicles this eternal question by following the eleven year relationship between Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan). Beginning from when they first meet in college and then fast-forwarding to their re-connection ten years later, audiences can all rejoice when the inevitable happens. So come celebrate a truly beloved writer and a beautiful story of friendship.
Oh, and when you place your order with our friendly Nitehawk server make sure you say: “I’ll have what she’s having!”
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field, Sydney Pollack
After a provocative Christmas party hosted by the wealthy and unconventional Victor Ziegler, Dr. Bill Hartford and his wife Alice (played by at-the-time real-life couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) set sail on a psychosexual journey caught between reality and illusion, jealousy and obsession. When Alice admits to have sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes hell bent on having an illicit encounter but after he sneaks into a secret society sex party, he quickly discovers he’s in way over his head. With its intimate dialogue and sweepingly vibrant scenes, Eyes Wide Shut is a befitting finale to Kubrick’s stunning cinematic legacy.
Get stuffed one more time with Jodie Foster’s Thanksgiving feast, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. A 35mm presentation.
Nitehawk kicks off the holiday season with this should-be holiday classic, Home for the Holidays. Claudia Larson is heading home to Baltimore for yet another chaotic and exasperating family Thanksgiving but this year she has more on her mind than usual. Poor Claudia has just been laid off from her job as an art restorer and her teenager daughter informed her that she’d be having sex with her boyfriend while she was out of town. Add to that a colorful family and an intriguing new visitor, she’s about to kick off the holiday season with a bang. Everything will be alright if they can all duck the flying turkeys!
Part of Nitehawk’s December NITEHAWK SAVES XMAS brunch and midnite series!
Starring: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith
Set during Christmas time, Steven Spielberg’s Hook focuses on an adult Peter Pan who has forgotten all about his childhood and his time not growing up in Neverland. In his new life, Peter Pan is Peter Banning, a successful corporate lawyer with a wife (Wendy’s granddaughter) and two children. However, when the enemy of his past (baddie Captain Hook) kidnaps his children, Peter once again returns to Neverland in order to save them. Along the journey, he unknowingly reclaims his youthful spirit, along with the power of imagination, friendship and magic!
Nitehawk presents two special midnite screenings of the once lost DANGEROUS MEN!
Dangerous Men has many characters…like Mina whose life is shattered when two bikers with rape on their minds attack and kill Daniel, her fiancé. Driven by grief, she embarks on a killing rampage, wreaking vengeance upon all the menthat she seductively lures into her trap. In her twisted world, cops and killers are all the same – David, Daniel’s brother, is a cop who relentlessly pursues the killers, while facing a nest of drug dealers, followed by the FBI and the police SWAT team, also in hot pursuit. Mina, a victim of violence, carrying a twisted obsession for justice, is caught between opposing forces in a world of dangerous men.
Two gay men (Sebastián Silva, Tunde Adebimpe) and a nurse (Kristen Wiig) contend with nosy neighbors while trying to conceive a baby.
A Brooklyn couple, Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly but their plans are disrupted by growing harassment from a menacing neighborhood local known as ‘The Bishop’. As their clashes become increasingly aggressive, it is only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.
Famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority.
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that remains relevant to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Disregarding his pleas for mercy, the majority of subjects do not stop the experiment, administering what they think are near-fatal electric shocks, simply because they’ve been told to. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram’s exploration of authority and conformity strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster. His wife Sasha (Winona Ryder) anchors him through it all. EXPERIMENTER invites us inside Milgram’s whirring mind in this bracing portrait of a brilliant man whose conscience and creative spirit continue to be resonant, poignant, and inspirational.
In this Yuletide spectacular, comedian KEVIN MAHER welcomes guests to obsess over the holidays with a two-hour video variety show full of laughs and weird film clips.
Guest Segments include:
- Department Store Santa GLEN HEROY shares true tales from Santaland and other gigs as St. Nick.
- THE FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL presents a selection of found videos with a Christmas theme.
- Filmmaker CAROLINE GOLUM tells the story of a Jewish Christmas in New York.
- Word & Film blogger TOM BLUNT makes a case for why VH1’s A DIVA’S CHRISTMAS CAROL deserves to be canonized as a Holiday classic.
- ELLIOTT KALAN (The Flophouse Podcast and The Daily Show) takes a closer look at the Santa myth.
- Space Cat creator WENDY MAYS spotlights an overlooked holiday gem that may disgust you.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D’Onofrio
Strange Days features a (former) future Los Angeles two days before the turn of the millennium. Former policeman Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience the emotions and past experiences of others. While the bootlegs typically contain tawdry incidents, Nero is shocked when he receives one showing a murder. He enlists a friend, bodyguard Mace (Angela Bassett), to help find the killer — and the two soon stumble upon a vast conspiracy involving the police force Nero once worked for.
