It bears repeating…This Groundhog’s Day, Nitehawk Cinema and Free Will Brewing Company present a GROUNDHOG DAY FILM FEAST you’ll want to experience over and over again!

Talk about deja-vu. A weatherman (Bill Murray) must experience the same day over and over again until he gets it right. One could expect that Groundhog Day would be an exercise in tedium. Fortunately, and we can all thank the comedic god that is Bill Murray for this, the film is a hilarious joy ride through the peaks and valleys of life. Even the greatest days are best left to live only once but feeling doomed in the repetitive cycle of the same is enough to drive anyone nuts. Trapped in time, Phil Connors eventually navigates his way through the Groundhog Day(s) and gets to the other side.

As always, the best part is that each dish will be served at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!

Nitehawk’s repetitive menu for Groundhog Day will pair an evolving pork dish with beers from Free Will Brewing Company. Our dishes will transform along with Bill Murray’s character and will also touch upon the eating establishments (the B&B, diner, restaurant, hotel bar) he frequented over his numerous returns. Nitehawk’s repetitive menu for Groundhog’s Day will pair an evolving pork dish with beers from Free Will Brewing Company. Our dishes will transform along with Bill Murray’s character and will also touch upon the eating establishments (the B&B, diner, restaurant, hotel bar) he frequented over his numerous returns…

MENU

“PITTSBURGH CHIPPED HAM SLIDER”
sweet chili sauce, house-made potato chips
Beer Pairing: Free Will Brewing Company Kolsch

“PUNXSUTAWNEY PULLED PORK SANDWICH”
cabbage slaw, salt and vinegar potato gaufrette
Beer Pairing: Free Will Brewing Company Kragle IPA

“PENNSYLVANIA PORK”
sauerkraut, smoked kielbasa, beer mustard
Beer Pairing: Free Will Brewing Company Olly – Oud Bruin style sour

“GROUND HOG WELLINGTON”
pork tenderloin, ground pork, duxelle, puff pastry, crispy prosciutto
Beer Pairing: Free Will Brewing Company Techno IPA

“DAY 12,394”
maple soft serve, bacon lardons
Beer Pairing: Free Will Brewing Company COB

Menu subject to change. No substitutions.

Starring: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith

Set during Christmas time, Steven Spielberg’s Hook focuses on an adult Peter Pan who has forgotten all about his childhood and his time not growing up in Neverland. In his new life, Peter Pan is Peter Banning, a successful corporate lawyer with a wife (Wendy’s granddaughter) and two children. However, when the enemy of his past (baddie Captain Hook) kidnaps his children, Peter once again returns to Neverland in order to save them. Along the journey, he unknowingly reclaims his youthful spirit, along with the power of imagination, friendship and magic!

Celebrate living in the future for a special One Nite Only screening of BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II on the very date that Marty McFly visits the future: October 21, 2015.

Trivia contest with prizes after the feature in Lo-Res!

October 21, 2015 approaches, the very day that time traveling teenager Marty McFly visits to stop his future son from committing a future robbery in Back to the Future Part II. After over 25 years of waiting, we can see what the bright, shiny future has to hold for us in 2015. The future has given us all kinds of fun stuff: we’ve got self tying shoes, we’ve got hoverboards (sorta), we even have a baseball team in Miami… we still don’t have flying cars, but honestly, that’s probably for the best. But that’s not so bad! 

Starring: Matt Dillon, Michael Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Harry Northrup

Print courtesy of the Tim Hunter Collection at the Academy Film Archive

With only a recreation center to distract them, most of the teenagers in the drab planned community of New Granada have turned to drugs and delinquency. Carl (Michael Kramer), the son of a town councilman, is an exception, but he can’t seem to help falling in with a charismatic and troubled classmate, Richie (Matt Dillon). Soon after, a trigger-happy sheriff (Harry Northrup) shoots Richie, and sole witness Carl has to go on the run, eventually inciting a dramatic teenage riot.

Nitehawk presents a special 35mm Live Sound Cinema presentation of Woody Allen’s SLEEPER with live score by Dead Heavens and Delicate Steve.

Miles (Woody Allen) isn’t exactly the hero type; the owner of a health food store in 1970’s New York, Miles winds up accidentally getting the T.V. dinner treatment when he wanders into a cryogenics lab. Miles wakes up 200 years later in a goofball sci-fi future that’s led by history’s most inept police state. Miles falls in with a rebel group trying to take the government down, and it turns out, only a person from humanity’s past can get through government security. The group sends Miles out to assassinate the government leader, and together with a clueless artist (Diane Keaton), the nebbishy New Yorker grapples with a host of oddball sci-fi gadgets and gizmos, from a malfunctioning jetpack to something called the Orgasmatron — The future doesn’t sound so bad, really.

Part of Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA Signature Series.

Starring: Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, William Atherton

When a teenaged prodigy steps onto the prestigious campus of Pacific Tech, he’s partnered up with the school’s living legend: Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), a super-genius whose time at school has turned him into a world class slacker. The college’s resident jerk professor (William Atherton, naturally) plops the two of them onto a secret laser project, kicks back and lets the kids do all the work for him. Little does Chris and his gaggle of geeks know, the laser project is actually an undercover weapons project for the CIA.

Director Martha Coolidge first broke ground as a filmmaker in the New York documentary scene before moving to California to rub elbows with the Coppola clan at Zoetrope. She broke big when she took a sleazy teen exploitation script and flipped it into the fun and heartfelt Valley Girl. Before making Real Genius, Coolidge spent time rubbing elbows with actual eggheads at Caltech, and rewrote the script based off of her experiences.

Who will survive the attack of the killer lions in ROAR?

No animals were harmed in the making of this movie. 70 members of the cast and crew were. An unprecedented––and wholly unpredictable––action-adventure, Roar follows wildlife preservationist Hank (The Exorcist producer Noel Marshall in his sole and career-derailing turn as an actor and director), who lives harmoniously alongside a menagerie of 100+ untamed animals, including cheetahs, elephants, lions and tigers on a preservation in the African plains. When his wife and children arrive (real-life wife Tippi Hedren, The Birds, and step-daughter Melanie Griffith, Working Girl) for a visit, a long-brewing battle for dominance between the lions erupts and threatens their very lives.

Part of Nitehawk’s July ANIMAL ATTACKS! midnite and brunch series.

Starring: Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick

In the not too distant future, strange goings-on from outer space, known as ‘phases,’ alter the Earth’s entire population of ants. Operating as a kind of hive mind, the ants begin building geometric towers in the Arizona desert and act aggressively towards the humans living there. A team of scientists venture out to investigate the super smart ants, only to discover that the insects have some big plans for mankind and the team unwittingly scored themselves front row seats.

Who will survive the attack of the killer FROGS? A 35mm presentation.

Snapping photos in the swamps of an isolated Florida island, nature photographer Pickett Smith (Sam Elliott) winds up at the home of the wealthy (and attractive) Crockett family. The Crocketts rule over the island’s ecosystem, planting crops where they don’t belong, dumping pollutants into water supply, and spraying down the marsh with pesticides to take care of the glut of frogs coming onto the island. In short, mother nature ain’t happy; and all the critters of the swamp – snakes, spiders, frogs, and even butterflies – have revenge on the mind. What happens next… you’ll just have to see for yourself. RIBBET!

Part of Nitehawk’s ANIMALS ATTACK! midnite and brunch series.

SuperTrash presents the dark side of William Shatner in 1974’s IMPULSE.

In Impluse, The Shat perfs a very touchy cat, Matt Stone, a matricide survivor who’s become a honeymoon slayer. Forever cuckoo’ed by his trauma, Shatner plays the role like Hamlet — if Ham was a prism of Sonny Chiba, Robert Goulet, and Dracula‘s Renfield. Impulse is breezy and sleazy, like easy-listening grindhouse with an immaculate 70’s vibe. William Grefe directs exploitation with–shall we say–seriousness, as seen in other Grefe works like Stanley and The Hooked Generation. Perhaps the real-dealio credit belongs to writer Tony Crechales, who was definitely on a psychodrama bender having previously penned The Killing Kind and So Evil, My Sister.

Presenting Impulse is a SuperTrash pleasure for curator-author Jacques Boyreau and designer Joe Niem–with thanks to archivist Scott Moffett. For the curious and cogently unhinged, we include a gallery of SuperTrash legacy, representing museum shows, books, underground cellars, and upcoming web commerce…Pig in and dig out…!