No werewolf program is complete without the ultimate Universal horror classic, THE WOLF MAN.

Although a smattering of werewolf movies preceded it, including 1935’s The Werewolf of London, it’s Lon Chaney’s iconic role for Universal Pictures’ The Wolf Man that defined the werewolf in cinema. He plays Larry Talbot, a man visiting Wales to attend his brother’s funeral. While in town, he purchases a silver cane which he uses to kill a wolf who attacks him on the walk home one night. Turns out that it was actually a man, a gypsy’s son who was a werewolf, and now Larry is one too. And so ensues the internal struggle of man versus monster!

Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.

Comedian Kevin Maher presents an obsessive look at wigs as they appear in movies, TV and real life. From toupee-wearing authority figures to hyper-glamorous drag queens, the evening crosses decades and genres to uncover a real fascination with fake hair.

Plus Special Guests:
Jon Abrams (Editor-in-Chief, Daily Grindhouse)
Tom Blunt (blogger, Word & Film)
Ariel Italic (Nobodies Hosting Drag Race)
Wendy Mays (host of “Pet Cinematary” podcast)
Tanya Smith (co-host of “Read It And Weep” podcast)
Kate Wilkinson (writer, Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy; WigWurq.tumblr.com)
Kseniya Yarosh (co-host, Bonnie & Maude podcast)

Nitehawk’s COUNTRY BRUNCHIN’ goes Spaghetti Western with the Sergio Leone epic, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. The screening features a live pre-show serenade by ARTHUR VINT & ASSOCIATES.

In The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) depicts three gunslingers competing to find fortune in a buried cache of Confederate gold. Arguably the most stylish and influential film of the western genre, it is the third and final installment in Leone’s Dollars Trilogy (following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More). Clint Eastwood returns as the “Man With No Name,” this time teaming with two gunslingers (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) to pursue a cache of $200,000 and letting no one, not even warring factions in the American Civil War, stand in their way. From sun-drenched panoramas to bold, hard close-ups, exceptional camera work captures the beauty and cruelty of the barren landscape and the hardened characters who stride unwaveringly through it.

Come watch The Big Game 2016 on the Big Screen at Nitehawk as the DENVER BRONCOS and the CAROLINA PANTHERS teams battle it out for football’s biggest title!

You may have a large screen television but nothing beats seeing The Big Game on Nitehawk’s big theater screen with table-side service. Buying our $30 food and beverage voucher saves you a seat to watch the game with friends, family, and football fan strangers. We’ll be serving up our Housemade Hot Wings and will be featuring drink specials from the region of each team:

Panthers – Catdaddy Spiced Carolina Moonshine – $7
Broncos – Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale 12oz can – $6

To cap it all off, the Puppy Bowl with its saucy Halftime Kitten Show plays in the lobby. Go team!

Please note there will be a 20% service fee added to all food and beverage checks for this event.

The theatrical release of the Academy Award Nominated Short films has been met by enthusiastic audiences for ten years. This year, Nitehawk is pleased to present the 2016 OSCAR® Nominated Short Films in the Live Action and Animation categories!

The OSCAR® Nominated Short Films: LIVE ACTION are:

Ave Maria, Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
Five nuns living in the West Bank find their routine disrupted when the car of a family of Israeli settlers breaks down outside the convent. Unable to use the telephone due to Sabbath restrictions, the family needs help from the nuns, but the sisters’ vow of silence requires them to work with their visitors to find an unorthodox solution.

Day One, Henry Hughes
On the heels of a painful divorce, an Afghan-American woman joins the U.S. military as an interpreter and is sent to Afghanistan. On her first mission, she accompanies troops pursuing a bomb-maker, and must bridge the gender and culture gap to help the man’s pregnant wife when she goes into labor.

Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut), Patrick Vollrath
Michael, a divorced father devoted to his eight-year-old daughter, Lea, picks her up for their usual weekend together. At first it feels like a normal visit, but Lea soon realizes that something is different, and so begins a fateful journey.

Shok, Jamie Donoughue
In Kosovo in 1998, two young boys are best friends living normal lives, but as war engulfs their country, their daily existence becomes filled with violence and fear. Soon, the choices they make threaten not only their friendship, but their families and their lives.

Stutterer, Benjamin Cleary, Serena Armitage and Shan Christopher Ogilvie
For a lonely typographer, an online relationship has provided a much-needed connection without revealing the speech impediment that has kept him isolated. Now, however, he is faced with the proposition of meeting his online paramour in the flesh, and thereby revealing the truth about himself.

The theatrical release of the Academy Award Nominated Short films has been met by enthusiastic audiences for ten years. This year, Nitehawk is pleased to present the 2016 OSCAR® Nominated Short Films in the Live Action and Animation categories!

The OSCAR® Nominated Short Films: ANIMATION are:

Bear Story
Producers: Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Every day, a melancholy old bear takes a mechanical diorama that he has created out to his street corner. For a coin, passersby can look into the peephole of his invention, which tells the story of a circus bear who longs to escape and return to the family from which he was taken.

Prologue
Producers: Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
2,400 years ago, four warriors — two Spartan and two Athenian — battle to the death in an intense struggle witnessed by a little girl, who then runs to her grandmother for comfort.

Sanjay’s Super Team
Producers: Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
Young Sanjay, a first-generation Indian-American, is obsessed with television, cartoons and his superhero action figures. He is reluctant to spend time in daily prayers with his devout Hindu father, but a flight of imagination helps him develop a new perspective that he and his father can both embrace.

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
Producer: Konstantin Bronzit
Two best friends have dreamed since childhood of becoming cosmonauts, and together they endure the rigors of training and public scrutiny, and make the sacrifices necessary to achieve their shared goal.

World of Tomorrow
Producer: Don Hertzfeldt
A little girl named Emily is taken on a fantastical tour of her distant future by a surprising visitor who reveals unnerving secrets about humanity’s fate.

Punk activist collective Positive Force DC emerged in 1985, rising from the creative, politically-charged ferment of DC punk’s Revolution Summer. Born in a dynamic local scene sparked by Bad Brains, Minor Threat, and Rites of Spring, a handful of young activists also drew inspiration from UK anarcho-punks Crass and the original “Positive Force” band Seven Seconds to become one of the most long-lasting and influential exponents of punk politics.

Nitehawk Cinema proudly presents our 5th Annual ULTRA MEGA OSCARS with NYLON Magazine on February 28th!

What could be more glamorous than watching all the drama, tears, and glory of Hollywood’s biggest night on the big screen with tableside food and beverage? Who will win? Who will be outraged? Our celebration of all things movies from the previous year includes fun games and, of course, tableside food and beverage during the event. Plus, each guest will receive a swag bag courtesy of NYLON Magazine!

See our menu below for the select food and drink specials inspired by the nominees. Our $30 food and beverage voucher saves your seat, so you won’t miss a second of all the glitz and glamor!

BRIDGE OF SPIES
Best Picture / Best Supporting Actor / Best Original Score / Best Production Design / Best Sound Mixing / Best Original Screenplay

Spielburger ($13) – house special blended beef, muenster, barrel aged sauerkraut, secret Russian dressing, brioche, house cut fries or salad
The Standing Man ($11) – Rittenhouse Rye Whiskey, Carpano Dry, Maraschino Liqueur, Ramazzotti Amaro, orange bitters, Angostura Bitters

SPOTLIGHT
Best Picture / Best Director / Best Supporting Actor / Best Supporting Actress / Best Original Screenplay / Best Film Editing /

Fenway Park ($10) – beef hot dog, Boston baked beans, diced onions, house cut fries or salad
Irish Catholic Coffee ($10) – Jameson Irish Whiskey, coffee syrup, Averna, dry vermouth, Angostura Bitters

CAROL
Best Actress / Best Supporting Actress / Best Cinematography / Best Costume Design / Best Original Score / Best Adapted Screenplay

Perpetual Sunrise ($11) – Bulldog Gin, Dolin Rouge Vermouth, Fernet Branca, Green Chartreuse

JOY
Best Actress

HUGGABLE HANGERS ($13) – marinated hanger steak, pico de gallo, chipotle mayo, white corn tortillas, lime

Please note that there will be a 20% service fee added to all food and beverage checks for this event.

Nitehawk Naughties’ spends the night in a castle with Jean Rollin’s erotically blood-thirsty film, FASCINATION. Includes surprise goodies courtesy of our partner, Babeland!

THE CULT: FASCINATION (Un film de JEAN ROLLIN)

It’s pretty much impossible to try to write about a Jean Rollin film, they are much better suited to explain themselves. The king of erotic-horror (and lesbian vampires), Rollin’s films are often bad, sometimes un-watchable, but always visually stunning. These art films recall the look of other European “horror” films of the era but remain, ques cu sa?, resoundingly French. With soft-core porn stars as actresses and plenty of nudity, Fascination (aka Les Frisson des Vampires) is tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two seductive women (Eva and Elizabeth) who just happen to be part of an aristocratic vampire cult. Without a doubt, Fascination is one of Rollin’s dreamy and seductive best.

Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Naughties OOH LA LA program in partnership with Babeland.