SecretFormula presents…
Spoons, Toons & Booze New Year Special
Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of First Episodes and Origin Stories to Start the New Year!
Do you miss your childhood Saturday mornings of waking up early to gorge on cereal and cartoons? If so, SecretFormula and your hosts Michael Austin and Nell Casey have the ultimate brunch for the kid in you…Spoons, Toons & Booze! We’ve got all your favorite Saturday morning cartoons, delicious cocktails and a free all you can eat sugar cereal bar, not to mention Nitehawk Cinema’s excellent brunch menu.
Let’s face it: we’re all ready for a new year, a new start and a new…well, maybe we’re not ready for everything. So let’s ease into 2017 by looking back, all the way to the beginning of our favorite Saturday morning (and weekday afternoon) cartoon series and characters. Think of it as self-care for your soul.
We have got a huge selection of first episodes and origin stories (Infant Ninja Turtles!) for you to choose from plus:
– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930’s through the 90’s and YOU get to choose what we watch!
– Free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolaty cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.
– Specialty cocktails like The Complete Breakfast with Cinnamon Toast Crunch infused rum, Bailey’s Irish Cream and iced coffee and the “The Sonny,” a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs!
– Compete in contests to choose which cartoons we watch and win sweet prizes from Nitehawk Cinema and cool ‘toon-related swag!
Nitehawk lives the hard hat days and honky tonk nights with a Country Brunchin’ presentation of URBAN COWBOY. Includes a live pre-show musical serenade by Tatters and Rags.
John Travolta followed up the success of Saturday Night Fever and Grease with Urban Cowboy, where he steps into the skin-tight blue jeans of Bud, a Lone Star cowboy who moves to the city to make enough cash to buy himself a stretch of land. What unfolds is a bar room drama of fist fights, industrial accidents, and mechanical bull rides as Bud finds himself entrenched in the town’s honky tonk scene.
Debra Winger stars opposite of Travolta as Sissy, a classic 80’s power gal who falls for Bud’s boot-scootin’ moves and well-starched shirt, but clashes with his old fashioned ideas of marriage and womanhood. Tough guys just can’t seem to figure out how to cook for themselves, can they?
Tatters and Rags are at times a drone post-punk folk band, other times being a sweaty, whiskey-fueled electric honky-tonk band. Fans of the band state that their eclecticism is part of their charm, and it’s always accompanied by a frenetic energy that makes them one of the most exciting live bands in New York City.
For the first Nitehawk Nasty of 2015, we celebrate one of the nastiest movies of the last decade: Rob Zombie’s twisted, sun bleached sequel THE DEVIL’S REJECTS.
When it comes to killin’, no one does it better than the Firefly family. It’s 1978, and after getting pegged for seventy-five homicides by the local P.D., the remaining members of the fiendishly charming Firefly clan (Captain Spaulding, Otis, and Baby) hit the road, hoping to outpace a psychotic sheriff (William Forsythe) who rationalizes his extreme methods with a righteous fury. Getting away should be easy enough. With the open road in front of them, the Firefly’s just need to keep a low profile until they hit the border — problem is, when you have a knack for knifings like these three, it can be hard to control yourself. After all, they’re doing the Devil’s work; and on this final ride, the Devil’s Rejects hope to secure their damnation by leaving a trail of mangled bodies in their wake.
Part of Nitehawk’s Nitehawk Nasties signature series.
Starring: Desiree Akhavan, Rebecca Henderson, Scott Adsit, Halley Feiffer
The Future of Film is Female is celebrating the first book by filmmaker Desiree Akhavan, YOU’RE EMBARRASSING YOURSELF, with two special brunch screenings that include a tenth anniversary screening of APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR (7/17) and the 2018 Sundance Award Winner, THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST (7/18). To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
Both screenings include an intro and Q&A with Akhavan as well as a book signing. Books are available to purchase with your ticket or at the event.
Desiree Akhavan’s personal debut film, Appropriate Behavior, was released in 2014. It’s a comedic and introspective look at a young woman, Shirin, who stumbles through her identity as she tries to be the ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempts to be all three. With her sexuality being a secret from her traditional Persian family, she also deals with the disintegration of her relationship with her girlfriend.
Go here to get your tickets to our Sunday screening of THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST
You’re Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies
Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about—hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art, love, and a better haircut.
Two giants of rock, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult, share the same stage in the feature length concert film BLACK AND BLUE. Introduction by Richard Christy, writer and composer of “Majestic Loincloth.” A special 35mm presentation.
In 1980, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult co-headlined a nationwide tour called Black and Blue. Recorded at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island and never released on DVD, Black and Blue cuts back-and-forth between both bands’ sets, and features Ronnie James Dio blazing through tracks from the then just released Heaven and Hell, while Blue Oyster Cult hams it up with a gigantic fiberglass Godzilla.
Never before released on DVD, we’ll be screening Black and Blue from our own 35mm print. So break out your torches and sharpen your horns, because the Devil is coming to Nitehawk, and He’s brought friends.
A wayward hitman discovers a newfound purpose in life when he takes on a corrupt DEA officer on behalf of an orphaned 12-year-old girl.
In Luc Besson’s THE PROFESSIONAL, Jean Reno plays Leon, the best cleaner in New York City. When he’s not collecting on perfectly executed mob contracts, Leon spends his time alone in his apartment, watering plants and keeping himself in shape. He’s lonely, but a hitman with connections can wind up dead. When a corrupt, cocaine-addled DEA agent (Gary Oldman) kills the family living next door, Leon’s solitary life suddenly comes to a close as his orphaned neighbor, twelve-year-old Mathilda (Natalie Portman), comes to him for protection. Mathilda and Leon become an unlikely pair, as Leon teaches the eager young girl the secrets of his trade so she can avenge her family.
Part of Nitehawk’s January THE PERFECT CRIME brunch series.
One filmmakers quest to uncover the secrets behind the Philippines’ 2 ft. 9 James Bond, Weng Weng. Director Andrew Leavold will be in attendance for a Q&A!
Some of the most bizarre filmmaking from the 1970’s and 80’s came out of the Philippines. Under the thumb of an oppressive regime, the country became an unexpected hotspot for exploitation film makers out to make blood-and-guts skin flicks for dirt cheap prices. Though the scene often featured B-movie heavies like Pam Grier or Dick Miller, the boom’s breakout star was mysterious pint-sized action star named Weng Weng. The 2 ft. 9 James Bond died in 1993, but his legacy became emblematic of the country’s post-colonial struggle with censorship and strife, which lead an American video store owner on a crazed quest to uncover the secrts of Weng Weng’s life.
Get Thanksgiving-ready at Nitehawk with these turkeys!
It’s a few days before Thanksgiving and Windy City ad-man Neal Page (Steve Martin) is stuck in New York for the world’s most pointless marketing meeting. With a holiday flight to catch, Neal looks forward to spending time with his family in just a few short hours. It was supposed to be easy. He wasn’t counting on a blizzard sending his flight to Kansas, and he definitely wasn’t counting on meeting chatty shower curtain ring salesman Del Griffith (John Candy), his new partner in navigating the holiday hell of PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES.
There were a lot of reasons they called him DIRTY HARRY, and he kept inventing new ones.
When the Scorpio killer unleashes hell on San Francisco, the local PD sic their baddest dog on his trail: trigger happy inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood). Notorious for dead perps and injured partners, Callahan plows through SF’s underworld to get to Scorpio before the deranged gunman can follow through on his promise to kill a person every day that his ransoms aren’t met. With his superiors breathing down his neck to play it by the book, can Harry collar a murderer who makes his own rules?
Part of Nitehawk’s January I’LL KICK YOUR ASS! midnite series.
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Jared Leto, Meat Loaf
It takes some people longer to realize it than others, but eventually we all come to the same conclusion: Life’s kind of a drag, huh? A rigged game controlled by credit card companies and marketing firms with a goal of keep us all docile and dumb and in debt. It’s enough to leave you numb; which, fortunately, has an easy cure: a good, solid punch to the face.
In David Fincher’s Fight Club, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) works like a preacher in the church of ass-kicking, winning converts from all walks of life into his underground fight ring, including the film’s nameless narrator (Edward Norton). Re-invigorated by conflict, Durden’s band sets its sights on much larger targets with an elaborate plan that could tear down the entire global economy.
