Starring: Kathy Ireland, Thom Mathews, Don Michael Paul

Journey to the Center of the Earth meets The Wizard of Oz Albert Pyun style!

A master of creating wild landscapes on a budget, here Pyun crafts an underworld with a steampunk vibe, with flecks of light and smoke, another signature of his style. There lands Wanda (Kathy Ireland), who has fled Los Angeles after getting dumped and is in search of her archaeologist father. The local population believe she has colonizer intentions, and have her on the run, not knowing who to trust.

Though perhaps best known as fodder for Mystery Science Theater 3000, Alien from L.A. transcends such a dismissal – the charm lies in the details, from character flamboyance to textured color palettes, which will be on glorious display in what we’re told is a flawless 35mm print.

Starring: Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu

17-year-old Suzume’s journey begins in a quiet town in Kyushu when she encounters a young man who tells her, “I’m looking for a door.” What Suzume finds is a single weathered door standing upright in the midst of ruins as though it was shielded from whatever catastrophe struck. Seemingly drawn by its power, Suzume reaches for the knob…. Doors begin to open one after another all across Japan, unleashing destruction upon any who are near. Suzume must close these portals to prevent further disaster. The stars. The sunset. The morning sky. Within that realm, it was as though all time had melted together in the sky–guided by these mysterious doors, Suzume’s journey to close doors is about to begin.

Starring: Catherine Mary Stewart, Vladek Sheybal, George Gilmour, Joss Ackland

Kick off the summer with ‘NYC’s Apple Super-Fan’ Joe Berger (The Deuce Film Series) and the staggeringly stupendous spectacle of The Apple… Raffle pre-show!! Disco after-party in Trees-Lounge!!

Disastrous misfire or self-aware masterpiece? Biblical allegory or hyper-exaggerated schlock n’ roll? Social commentary or salacious gratification?? The Apple will leave you incredulous, wondering, a la Showgirls, what the hell were they thinking??

Menahem Golan, who (along with cousin Yoram Globus) infected the world with truly tasteless films throughout the Eighties – thanks to their infamous (and now defunct) Cannon Films – writes and directs The Apple: a film which – only in hindsight – could be understood as a brilliantly surreal and extraordinarily entertaining satire on the decadent, debauched disco decade…responsible for Jesus Christ Superstar, Studio 54, Roger Daltry, Saturday Night Fever, and a little too much blow.

The Apple concerns Bibi (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Alphie (George Gilmour), two sweet kids trying, through folk music, to spread peace and harmony to a world tainted by narcissism and greed. They quickly prove no match to the evil Mr. Boogalow (Vladek Sheybal) and his monolithic BIM Empire, which holds a firm grasp over the world’s entertainment industry and – eventually – free will. Bibi simply can’t resist temptation and quickly signs her soul away, succumbing to a life of fast love, fast money, and fast music. She becomes a rock and roll Goddess, and Alphie is left to fight the injustices of an authoritarian society on his own. But will his integrity remain intact? Will he ever see the Bibi he once knew and loved again? Most importantly, will he see a world freed from the tight leather, teased hair, and hologram fashions made obligatory by the BIM??

A document of an era long past (pre-AIDS, pre-crack, pre-Reagan), The Apple paints a portrait of American (sub)culture post-Vietnam, seen through the eyes of a Polish, Israeli-born and raised madman. Dazzling direction, absurd art design, an unbelievably over-the-top score… The Apple will leave you satiated.

Glammed-up disco divas! Glittery queens! Bulging camel-toes! DO THE BIM!!

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Bo Hopkins, Ned Beatty, Jennifer Billingsly

1972’s Deliverance proved that Burt Reynolds was an actor, but it was the following year’s White Lightning that announced Reynolds as a movie star; foreshadowing his box office dominance for the remainder of the decade.

Setting off on a revenge quest, Gator McKlusky (Reynolds) is granted release from federal prison, following his brother’s murder, to infiltrate the nefarious backcountry dealings of the man he suspects is responsible — a corrupt county sheriff (Ned Beatty). Featuring a lean, pulp-y script by William W. Norton (Night of the Juggler, Big Bad Mama), a propulsive southern-fried score from Charles Bernstein, and bruising car chases and stunts that would come to define Reynolds’ oeuvre, White Lightning stands as, perhaps, the sweatiest movie ever made, all of it basking in Reynolds’ star power and macho, good ol’ boy sex appeal.

Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, Dan Hedaya

B-Sides, Tom Hanks: Tom Hanks has done his fair share of comedies, but Joe Versus the Volcano effectively brings out the best of his quirks.

Joe Banks (Tom Hanks) is dying, apparently. This is good news, since his life was not much worth living anyway. On the upside, a strange millionaire (Lloyd Bridges) offers Joe a way to die with meaning and dignity: by hurling himself into a volcano. With plenty of spending cash and an ensemble of new luggage, Joe embarks on an absurdist journey to his demise, guided by two very disparate sisters, and trying to puzzle out the meaning of existence.

Starring: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon, Jackie Chan, Rose Byrne, John Cena, Ice Cube, Post Malone, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, Hannibal Buress, Ayo Edebiri, Giancarlo Esposito

After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers. Their new friend, April O’Neil, helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

Starring: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fisher Stevens, Richard Edson

Brooklyn plumbers Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo) rescue Princess Daisy from King Koopa (Dennis Hopper) and the Goombas in a dinosaur world.

Starring: Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Jeff Bridges, Season Hubley, Randy Quaid, Scott Wilson, Ed Lauter, Gary Busey

Join The Deuce this June as we celebrate Fathers AND Pride with LOLLY-MADONNA XXX!  A buncha backwoods boys just tryin’ to do their moon-shinin’ pappies proud anyway they can… Tennessee hick-households headed by scenery and sandwich chewing Rod Steiger and tight-lipped taciturn-y Robert Ryan embroiled in a Hatfield-McCoy-type feud!

A prankishly-penned letter leads to mistaken-identity kidnapping and an escalation of already tenuous tensions! With some Elvis impersonating and crossdressing!! A try at hopping on the “hicksploitation” bandwagon from major-studio MGM with a script by Sue Grafton adapted from her own obscure early pot-boiler… the “XXX” of the title being not a rating but rather the sign-off of the previously mentioned prankishly-penned letter as in: “love and kisses”…

This hillbilly hogwash hijacked Manhattan’s “happening” E. 59th Street  – premiering at the East 59th St I & II Theater where “we think seeing movies is one of the really great scenes in New York. And we intend to make that scene as exciting as possible…” Just like those dopes at The Deuce!!

Starring: Lenny Van Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield and Bud Cort’s voice as “Edgar!”

May all your dreams come true with The Deuce and the energetic tech-centric ELECTRIC DREAMS –  “A Fairytale For Computers”!! It’s FOOOOR computers!! And aren’t we all?? A toe-tapping overly prescient pre-AI PC pop-packed love-triangle between doofus dude, the classy, sassy cellist upstairs, and doofus dude’s jealous computer!

Milquetoast-y architect Miles tries his tech-inept hands at getting organized by purchasing a brand-new PC to some preposterously disastrous results… ie: his self-named suddenly sentient computer “Edgar” has taken it upon “himself” to ruin his master’s romance with said sexy cellist and win her for “himself”!! Packed to the giga-bytes with a Giorgio Moroder score and some gloriously 80s tracks by the likes of Culture Club and Heaven 17!!  With now-common technologies that must have seemed pure sci-fi speculation to the 1984 Movieland thick-heads! Melt your mind with ELECTRIC DREAMS!!