Starring: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Amanda Peterson

Space dreams come true for a group of misfit friends after they build a spacecraft in their backyard laboratory. This all comes about after one of them envisions the plan in which to make the spaceship and another has the smarts to create the complex computer program that builds it and another actually constructs it. As they head off into the great unknown of space in their homemade shuttle name Thunder Road, their adventure takes them to another galaxy where things are not quite what they would seem!

Starring: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takeshi Naitō, Yasuko Sawaguchi

Spirited Away tells the fantastical tale of a young girl named Chihiro whose family becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits after making an unexpected stop during their move to the suburbs. However the amusement park they find themselves in isn’t what it seems, in fact it’s inhabited by demons, spirits, and evil gods! Soon Chihiro, along with her new friend Haku, try to reverse her parents’ mysterious transformation into animals and return to the world of the living.

THE DEUCE goes 007 when we take it back to 1985 for an evening at the Selwyn Theater with Christopher, Grace and Roger Moore in A VIEW TO A KILL!

Plus: Prizes and surprises, Bronx Brewery Pale Ale at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

Bond bounces from Siberia to San Fran on hot pursuit of psychopathic industrialist Max Zorin, who’s bent on destroying Silicon Valley, claiming a monopoly on microchips all for himself.

Panned by critics upon its initial release, the fourteenth Bond film – and the last to star Roger Moore – features the Golden Globe nominated title song by Duran Duran, Christopher Walken as the ex-KGB-gone-rogue Zorin and Grace Jones as ‘May Day,’ his sassy super-strength henchwoman!

Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Bronx Brewery.

Part of Nitehawk Cinema’s THE DEUCE signature series.

Starring: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier

3 Women is one of Robert Altman’s most beautiful-looking and personal films. It is the story of three women: Millie (Shelley Duvall) and Pinky (Sissy Spacek) are attendants at the Desert Hot Springs spa, where they help older patients in and out of mineral baths. The first is self-absorbed and self-assured to the point of delusion. The second, meek and inexperienced, appears smitten by her friend’s poise. Willie (Janice Rule) paints eerie creatures on the bottom of the pool and is pregnant. The main male character of the film is her husband, Edgar (Robert Fortier). According to Altman, amid this strange triangle of shifting female identities, the macho, boozing, womanizing Edgar is sort of a “last man on earth.”

Starring: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson

Emmet’s an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average Lego minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously under-prepared.

Starring:  Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler, Dominic Guard, Norman Bird, Michael Graham Cox, Anthony Daniels

Twenty years before a certain fuzzy Kiwi claimed Middle Earth for his own, an animation genius from Brooklyn, Ralph Bakshi, was first to bring Tolkien’s fantasy epic to life. To create his Middle Earth, Bakshi used an animation technique called Rotoscoping, which combines live action and illustration. The result is something like a panel van painting sprung to life, a bizarrely fluid fantasy realm made up of impossible landscapes, saturated color and grotesque creatures. The story’s condensed and incomplete, only making about 2/3rds of the way through the books before petering to an end, but Bakshi’s work remains a marvel and was a huge influence on Peter Jackson when the time came to finish the trip to Mordor.

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.

Nitehawk plunges into the deep end of horror with a screening of a new restoration of water-logged zombie flick SHOCK WAVES. Director Ken Wiederhorn will be here for a Q&A after the film moderated by Fangoria’s Sam Zimmerman.

Remember that episode of Gilligan’s Island where the crew of the Minnow met up with an old SS scientist who was once in charge of a squad of unstoppable, underwater Nazi zombies? No? Well, that’s because that’s plot for Shock Waves, director Ken Wiederhorn’s oddball horror film about a group of yachters who have a nasty run-in with a band of zombies so well versed at killing that even Hitler didn’t want anything to do with them. Shock Waves stars horror icons John Carradine, Peter Cushing and Peter Cushing’s great, big fake scar, and is certain to leave you breathless. (Get it?)

Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Bronx Brewery.

Starring: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Aileen Quinn, Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry, Geoffrey Holder

It’s a hard knock life for us! Annie is a spunky orphan whose adventurous spirit winds up creating one very special family. Set in the depression era of New York in the 1930s, Annie and her fellow orphan friends live with the horrible Miss Hannigan but everything changes one day when the assistant to the wealthy Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks visits to find a young girl to spend some time at their residence. Directed by John Huston and featuring iconic performances by Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters, Annie is full of songs, Sandy, a bit of danger and a whole lot of heart. A must see for your New Year’s weekend!

Three friends discover that their neighbor’s house is really a living, breathing, scary monster in our children-friendly Halloween screening of MONSTER HOUSE!

Even for a 12-year old, D.J. Walters has a particularly overactive imagination. He is convinced that his haggard and crabby neighbor Horace Nebbercracker, who terrorizes all the neighborhood kids, is responsible for Mrs. Nebbercracker’s mysterious disappearance. Any toy that touches Nebbercracker’s property, promptly disappears, swallowed up by the cavernous house in which Horace lives. D.J. has seen it with his own eyes! But no one believes him, not even his best friend, Chowder. What everyone does not know is D.J. is not imagining things. Everything he’s seen is absolutely true and it’s about to get much worse than anything D.J could have imagined.

Part of Nitehawk’s kid-friendly Halloween screenings in October.