Starring: Allan Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Gil Rogers, the gruffly beautiful voice of Lionel Stander
’tis the always too-soon Season preemptively being pushed… so get your jollies and head home for the Holidays with The Deuce for a bracingly “refreshing” BLAST OF SILENCE!! A grimy, Grim-Reaper crime-ride through the wintery vice-laden landscape of the Big Apple, burrowing deep into the rotten-core darkness of a hitman’s heart and lonely soul… a murky emotionally wrought milieu where Grindhouse meets Arthouse in a miasma of pain and the misery of a life full of misdeeds that makes Munch’s ‘The Scream’ seem more like a mousey squeak! Eeek! Welcome to Sad-sack City!!
Gun-for-hire Frankie Bono (and you thought there was only one) is back on the hometown turf of the tough NYC streets he grew up on for a pre-Yuletide ice-job on a Manhattanite mobster that gets trickier, stickier, and riskier with each tensiony turn and nerve-fraying fracas… a slush-fuck harrowing homecoming of an unfortunate’s failings at romance, family, opportunity, and fortune that’s got Frankie fully falling apart! Welcome to Chillsville!!
Whether bopping into a Bucket Of Blood-esque Greenwich Village beatnik jazz-bar, popping in on a sewer-rat raising gun-dealer (and irl co-creator of The Monkees!?), or darting down and around the darkest corners of NYC back-alleys, bohemes, and Outerborough fringes – all just an echo of Frankie’s lonely, pained, falling-to-pieces frailness of mind that manifests its ultime amidst the “mob’s” (irl) Jamaica Bay dead-body dumping grounds during a (also irl) raging Hurricane Donna! A roiling tempestial cacophonic cauldron where Bono’s bleak past, bleaker present, and bleakest “future” all come to a boiling breaking point of bleakdom!! Welcome to Bummerburg!!
Promised the use of the lighting and camera equipment from a gig working on Errol Flynn’s final flick, Cuban Rebel Girls – IF he could smuggle it out of said Cuba after the production was preemptively abandoned due to the percolating Revolution – writer, director, and star (in a role imagined for Peter Falk) Allen Baron poured personal experience and $20,000 into making this operatic opus that broke the mold of middling murder-movies… fashioning instead an ahead of its time thriller… film noir at it most pitch – “une Trou Noir de Jai”, if you may – blackest in its existential coming-apart… and bolstered in its brazen downbeatedness by a bravado over-dubbed narration courtesy of Baron’s (uncredited) black-listed buddies: Waldo Salt penning and Lionel Stander reading, as the voice of our unseen conductor guiding the film down its dark tunnel of spiraling despair… until finally arriving at a destination of damnation ne’er visited by the timid circa ’61 teetotalers at 42nd street’s deco-y decorous New Amsterdam Theatre… caught unawares and in for a particularly dastardly double-bill that B-picked this powerhouse of perversity with the more main-streamy “steamy” soaperatic Splendor in the Grass… Lucky for you The Deuce skipped straight to the better-y and more bizarre of the two!! Welcome to Weirdtown!
Starring: Beyoncé, Idris Elba, Ali Larter, Jerry O’Connell, Bonnie Perlman, Christine Lahti
Sissy Fist Productions presents Nostalgia’s “Let’s Watch a Movie”, the love child of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Elvira’s Movie Macabre, and Mystery Science Theater 3000. Join your host Nostalgia, the sole employee of the MorningDove Cinema, for this episode’s screening of “Obsessed”. The show features drag performances, live movie commentary from the cast, as well as drinking games and audience participation.
Things couldn’t be better for Derek Charles (Idris Elba). He’s just received a big promotion at work, and has a wonderful marriage with his beautiful wife, Sharon (Beyoncé). However, into this idyllic world steps Lisa (Ali Larter), a temporary worker at Derek’s office. Lisa begins to stalk Derek, jeopardizing all he holds dear.
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Nancy NoGood — (@shesuptonogood)
Emi Grate — (@emigrate_drag)
David Puck — (@davidpuckdrag)
Junior Mintt — (@juniormintt)
Starring: Donna Wilkes, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun
A video store staple of the mid-to-late 1980s, the box cover of Angel was alluring with its dual images of its lead: she’s a school girl by day (pigtails, knee socks) and street walker by night (hot pants, high heels)! Herein lies the story of Molly, aka Angel (Donna Wilkes), a 15 year old who excels in school and maintains a secret lifestyle, taking care of herself as a sex worker since both her parents split. Although she’s in good company with her chosen family, a serial killer is targeting Hollywood Boulevard, creeping ever closer to Angel.
Ignore, if you will, the afterschool special tinged moralizing and you’ll find sweetness amongst the sleaze, with a trio of lovable weirdos surrounding Angel played by legends Rory Calhoun, Dick Shawn and the inimitable Susan Tyrrell, growling and scuzzy with her spiky bleached hair and jagged black scrawled on eyebrows.
Starring: Mick McCleery, Laura McLauchlin, Sasha Graham, Bernadette Pauley, Candice Meade
Pre-party DJ set by Matt Desiderio at 7:30
After witnessing a beautiful vampire feeding on a victim, a young man begins a life-long relationship with the bloodsucker and is groomed by her to commit horrible acts of murder and torture on her, slowly turning him into a serial killer who stalks the New York City streets with an insatiable appetite for both love and gruesome slaughter.
Always one to elevate the genre he is working in, and SOV films of the era in general, director Kevin J. Lindenmuth takes drained to death vampire tropes and steers them into new twisted territory, successfully adding some refreshing cerebral layers to pair with the stabbings, beheadings and chainsaw kills found in its run time. These thematic moves quickly separated Lindenmuth from many of his contemporaries, not only helping land Addicted to Murder into Blockbuster stores nationwide but spawning two direct sequels that deliver equal sanguine goods.
Starring: Tasha Tacosa, Ford Austin, Randal Malone, Eric Flenner, Phoebe Dollar
When a doomed space mission brings an army of savage and super intelligent giant rats back to Earth, Los Angeles becomes ground zero for survival as the ravenous creatures descend upon the city with an insatiable hunger for flesh and destruction.
From low budget genre auteur Jeff Leroy (Creepies, The Witches Sabbath) comes the mother of all giant rat movies, a gore-drenched sci-fi / horror / action movie stew that’s a homage to the nature gone amok genre of the 1970s, only wired on crank and really pissed off. Leroy crams every frame of the movie with a dirty, dark sense of dread, pitting his cast against not only the monsters, but each other, until every set and character is literally torn to shreds in one way or another. With it’s ample use of practical effects, miniature work, non-stop action and black humor, Rat Scratch Fever is a B-movie masterclass on how to get every penny and drop of sweat up on the screen.
Starring: Jeff Rector, William Marshall, Griffin Drew, Harrison Ray, Karen Black, Denise Ames
Chain-smoking Hollywood action movie star Tony Markham is zapped back in time via a magic artifact to a prehistoric world of flesh-hungry dinosaurs, angry cavemen, and a tribe of exotic, love-starved cavegirls. He must use his modern-day machismo and best karate moves to survive the onslaught of Jurassic terrors while wooing the literal cavegirl of his dreams, Hea-Thor.
Produced, written and directed by fan film pioneer, Marvel Comics scribe and Star Wars novelist Don Glut, Dinosaur Valley Girls playfully and skillfully dives headfirst into the subject matter, including creating a completely new language for the titlular tarts. What could have easily been just a typical late-night slot-filler on Skinemax becomes an epic world-building adventure, complete with stop motion dinosaurs, original music numbers, off-the-wall cameos and more dad jokes than you can shake an Allosaurus bone at.
Starring: Nikolai Tseretelli, Yulia Solntseva, Valentina Kuindzhi, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Batalov
Join us for the legendary science-fiction film Aelita, Queen of Mars, with a live score from The Flushing Remonstrance, NYC’s premier group devoted to live film accompaniment.
Said to be the first full-length science fiction movie ever made, Aelita is a fantastic adventure about Los, an engineer living in Moscow, who dreams of Aelita, the Queen of Mars, and builds a spaceship to take him to her. They fall in love, but Los soon finds himself embroiled in a proletarian uprising to establish socialism on the red planet. Influenced by the Russian avant-garde constructivist movement, the bold artistry of Aelita’s Martian costumes and sets contributed enormously to the science fiction look as we know it. The Flushing Remonstrance celebrate the centennial of this major work of early futuristic cinema by bringing it to life with their all-new live score.
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed
Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a physics professor at a 1960s university, but his life is coming apart at the seams. His wife (Sari Lennick) is leaving him, his jobless brother (Richard Kind) has moved in, and someone is trying to sabotage his chances for tenure. Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis, but whether anyone can help him overcome his many afflictions remains to be seen.
The world’s #1 cat video festival is back with screenings in theaters across the USA and around the world starting August 2024!
Oscilloscope Laboratories presents CatVideoFest 2024, a compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses.
Each year, across the country, local theaters partner with nearby cat-focused charities, animal welfare associations and shelters alike — a portion of ticket proceeds from every show goes directly to local cats in need. Proceeds from Nitehawk shows will go to Sean Casey Animal Shelter.
Starring: Mikey Madison, Paul Weissman, Lindsey Normington, Emily Weider
Anora, a sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
