THE DEUCE lights up the LYRIC THEATRE when hot action hits Hotlanta… and nobody leans on SHARKY’S MACHINE!

Plus: Prizes and surprises, Bronx Brewery Pale Ale at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

Recently reprimanded and newly vice-squaded cop Sharky uncovers a bevy of baddies while spying on prostitute/love interest known as “Dominoe” – then calls on some old buddies for back-up and ball-busting…

Director and star Burt Reynolds’ self-described “Dirty Harry Goes To Atlanta,” cuts more to the emotional quick of big-city-cop cynicism than most of its ilk – taking his tough-guy Sharky into some tender territory, rarely mined in so macho a genre… Without skimping on the fun and furious action and antics!!

Veteran character actors Bernie Casey, Brian Kieth, Richard Libertini and Charles Durning show up as Sharky’s “Machine”  – while creepy Henry Silva is one sinister sicko!! With some smooth jazz courtesy of Doc Severinson!

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR is a searing crime drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically the most dangerous year in the city’s history.

From acclaimed writer/director J.C. Chandor, and starring Oscar Isaac (INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS) and Jessica Chastain (ZERO DARK THIRTY), this gripping story plays out within a maze of rampant political and industry corruption plaguing the streets of a city in decay. J.C. Chandor’s third feature examines one immigrant’s determined climb up a morally crooked ladder, where simmering rivalries and unprovoked attacks threaten his business, family, and––above all––his unwavering belief in the righteousness of his own path.

Nitehawk and Noisey present a special presentation of San Diego post-hardcore doc IT’S GONNA BLOW!!! Q&A with Director Bill Perrine moderated by Devon Goldberg (Creedle) & plus special guests!

“It’s Gonna Blow!!! – San Diego Music Underground 1986-1996 is a feature length documentary film about San Diego’s influential DIY music scene and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream. Drawing from previously unseen performance footage and interviews with over sixty musicians, promoters and artists such as John Reis (Rocket from the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu), Justin Pearson (The Locust, Swing Kids), and Rob Crow (Pinback, Heavy Vegetable)… the film explores the birth of San Diego’s innovative post-hardcore scene and its early 90s ‘Next Seattle’ hype.”

Presented with our media partner, Noisey.

34 years in prison, 30 in solitary – loving every minute… BRONSON was never much of a people person.

Michael Peterson was your average, everyday bloke until he wound up in the slammer for holding up a Post Office. Prison’s where Michael really began to shine, ditching his old moniker for that of his idol: Charles Bronson. The inmate made a name for himself as Bronson, beating guards to a pulp in prisons all across the country. He even started a riot. You see, to Bronson, jail was like a vacation, a kind of playground where you can beat up just about anybody, and there’s really not much they can do about it.

Based on true events, Nicolas Winding Refn’s (Drive, Only God Forgives) Bronson stars Tom Hardy as the film’s titular badass, a charming, if terrifying, serial inmate who punched and scraped and bit his way into being Her Majesty’s Most Dangerous Prisoner.

Part of Nitehawk’s January I’LL KICK YOUR ASS! midnite series.

See why THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE had to kill every man on their wedding night! Presented in 35mm!

Riffing on the 19th century vampire tale of Carmilla, The Blood Spattered Bride is a trashy exploration of female sexuality, marital misogyny and good old fashioned graphic violence. The film follows a young woman who’s jarred at the discovery of her new husband’s twisted sexual appetites while they’re honeymooning at his family’s secluded manor. Repulsed at the touch of her husband, she seeks solace in nightly visions of one of his ancestors: Carmilla – the Blood-Spattered Bride, who seduces the young woman through lessons in love, lust and murder.

Part of Nitehawk’s February TWISTED ROMANCE midnite series.

Starring: Robert De Niro, Cybil Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel

Adrift in New York City after the Vietnam War, socially awkward loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes up a job prowling the city’s streets as a taxi driver to deal with his insomnia. Exposed to no one but a rogues gallery of pimps, hustlers and perverts, Travis begins seeing the world as putrid and in need of cleansing. Through awkward, fumbling attempts at romance, Travis isolates himself further, leaving him alone to mull over his obsessions: guns, a phony presidential candidate, and a roughed-up underage prostitute.

Martin Scorsese’s masterwork, Taxi Driver is a brute of a film, one that scrapes characters from the gutter of New York City and rakes them out into the sun to see how they react. Essential on every level.

Love can be vicious.

Boy meets girl. Girl gives boy heroin. Boy kills girl. Boy dies too. The passionate and troubled romance between Sex Pistol’s bassist Sid Vicious and groupie turned girlfriend Nancy Spungen is the stuff of rock and roll legend, a tale that casts a long shadow of drug addiction, abuse and industry enabling. Anchored by a pair of powerful performances from Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, Alex Cox’s SID AND NANCY is one of the best films about the lethal cocktail of sex, drugs and rock and roll ever made.

Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent, Margit Carstensen

Drawing elements from marital dramas, political thrillers and good old-fashioned blood-and-guts horror, Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession chronicles the dissolution of a marriage between a spy (Sam Neill) and his increasingly erratic wife (Isabelle Adjani).

Back from a mission abroad, Mark comes home to discover that his wife, Anna, wants a divorce. Unable to shake his wife’s sudden change in heart, Mark begins an investigation into her downward spiral only to discover that she’s come completely unraveled, a frothing, raving, violent shell of her former self. The source of her madness seems to come from within her Berlin apartment, and boy… it ain’t pretty.

Take a walk through the monochrome streets of Woody Allen’s MANHATTAN. Presented in 35mm!

Forty-two-year-old comedy writer Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) is dating a high school girl (an affectingly awkward Mariel Hemingway). He doesn’t see the relationship going anywhere, but the girl’s well of admiration towards him is a nice change of pace from his last relationship, which ended with his wife leaving him for another woman. Isaac’s best friend is married, but he spends most of his time with a bright young mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton), who, not surprisingly, Isaac has a thing for too.

Beautifully photographed by Gordon Willis, life in Woody Allen’s Manhattan is one defined by loneliness and a pervasive sense that there’s always something better out there, be it a new town, a new girl, or a new job. This universal yearning inspires Allen’s collection of troubled Manhattanites to trade around their affections like a deck of baseball cards.

Part of Nitehawk’s February I CHOO-CHOO-CHOOSE YOU brunch series.

Starring:  Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler, Dominic Guard, Norman Bird, Michael Graham Cox, Anthony Daniels

Twenty years before a certain fuzzy Kiwi claimed Middle Earth for his own, an animation genius from Brooklyn, Ralph Bakshi, was first to bring Tolkien’s fantasy epic to life. To create his Middle Earth, Bakshi used an animation technique called Rotoscoping, which combines live action and illustration. The result is something like a panel van painting sprung to life, a bizarrely fluid fantasy realm made up of impossible landscapes, saturated color and grotesque creatures. The story’s condensed and incomplete, only making about 2/3rds of the way through the books before petering to an end, but Bakshi’s work remains a marvel and was a huge influence on Peter Jackson when the time came to finish the trip to Mordor.