Two kids must save their secret agent parents from danger! SPY KIDS is film fun for the whole family courtesy of Robert Rodgriuez.
Nine years ago, top international spies Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez traded the excitement of espionage for the adventure of parenthood. But when they’re called out on a secret mission, the Cortezes are separated from their family and kidnapped by the evil Fegan Floop. Fortunately, there are two people who possess the skills and know-how to reunite the family: Carmen and Juni Cortez, their kids. And they’re just like real spies…only smaller!
Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan
A poem, a film, and Kublai Khan are all points of inspiration for the 1980 romantic musical fantasy film, Xanadu (you might also recognize the name as the mansion in Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane). As a frustrated artist who paints large versions of album covers, Sonny Malone (Michael Beck) yearns for something more in life. In a fateful encounter he is kissed by one of nine muses (Olivia Newton-John) who are dancing in the street. From that moment on he is determined to open his much desired roller-skating rink (named Xandu) and to be with his love from another world. We’ll admit it, aside from the neon and roller-skating, it’s the ELO song “Xanadu” that fills our hearts with joy and inspired us to make it happen!
This incredible disco-rock musical will take you back to a futuristic 1994! Hosted by ‘NYC’s APPLE Super Fan’ (of course) with prizes and pre-screening disco courtesy of DJ BOOGALOW!
The future is music and music is the future! Low budget but high entertainment, The Apple tells the psychedelic tale of two young Canadians, Alphie (George Gilmour) and Bibi (Catherine Mary Stewart) who travel to America to participate in the 1994 Worldvision Song Festival. Although they lose the competition, they get signed to a major label and subsequently enter into the darker side of the music industry as it rules the world! Orwellian in its religious allegories, conformity versus rebellion, and glittery debauchery meet in this cult classic futuristic disco musical. Come on, take a bite!
Part of Nitehawk’s midnite THE DISCO MUSICAL program.
Starring: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Shelley Thompson, Toby Froud
Jim Henson’s slightly darker Muppets star in the one of the most magical adventure films of, well, ever made. Jennifer Connelly is Sarah, a fifteen year old who resents her little brother so much that she wishes him to just disappear which he actually does when evil goblins kidnap him. Feeling guilty, she sets out to rescue him from the Goblin King (David Bowie!) but first she must successfully navigate a fantastical labyrinth in the center of this other-world full of puzzles and strange creatures. Seeing Labyrinth is a right of passage for any young adult and ripe for a revisit.
Starring: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Kathryn Mullen, Dave Goelz
One of Jim Henson’s darker muppet tales, The Dark Crystal takes us to another planet from the very distant past where two races were born from the crack of a magical crystal: the tyrannical, reptilian Skeksis and the hunchbacked wizards called the Mystics. In this story, an elflike “Gelfling” named Jen (an orphan raised by the Mystics) is on an incredible quest to return a missing shard to the mysterious “Dark Crystal” and, thus, restore order back onto the world by taking away the Skeksis’ power. The animatronics used in this film were considered groundbreaking at the time and they will surely continue to amaze today!
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Meg Ryan, Tom Skerritt
Do you feel the need, the need for speed? Thinking about Tony Scott’s Top Gun stirs up very fond memories from our youth: Tom Cruise in a leather jacket, Val Kilmer’s icy stare, and that fabulous 1980s soundtrack. Centering around cocky pilot Maverick (Cruise), a school group of elite Navy pilots called “Top Gun Naval Flying School” learn as much about life as they do flying fighter jets. Top Gun shows all the competition, romance, and high-flying involved with being the best of the best!
Nitehawk celebrates the 30th anniversary of SPLASH with a special weekend brunch 35mm screening!
Certainly a wild concept – a man reunites with the mermaid who saved him from drowning as a child in Cape Cod – but the unconventional love story in Ron Howard’s Splash has continued to charm audiences for three decades. Tom Hanks plays Allen, a lonely man who falls for the stunning Madison (Daryl Hannah) who harbors the secret that she’s actually from the sea. And while she adapts to life on land in New York City (learning to talk via television, taking salt baths, being naked at the Statue of Liberty), she must eventually tell her love the truth. What happens next is the ultimate convergence of fantasy and reality. Splash has it all: romance, comedy, sprawling seas and urban grit.
Starring: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove
The secret to Karate lies in the mind and heart. Not in the hands.
Wax on, wax off. After moving from New Jersey to Southern California, young Italian-American kid Daniel Larusso realizes he doesn’t quite fit into the blonde-hair/surfer mold. But it’s when he falls for the popular girl, Ali Mills, and she falls back, that the resulting bullying sends him into the karate training hands of Mister Miyagi. As Miyagi trains his young apprentice he reveals more than just skills to fend off his attackers, he teaches Larusso valuable life lessons such as patience, balance, believing in one’s self and what true friendship means. A classic coming of age tale for the 80s, The Karate Kid shows that some things are worth smartly fighting for.
Starring: Dolly Parton, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman
New York goes country in Rhinestone when a country western music star (that’s Dolly!) must turn an obnoxious New York cab driver (that’s Sly!) into the latest country singing sensation in order to break free from her sleazy NYC club contract. With even more than her contract at stake, she’s stuck with someone who can’t sing and hates country music “worse than liver.” So what else is there to do other than head to the hills of Tennessee for a two-week crash course in how to walk, talk, and sing like a genuine country star? Rhinestone is not-to-be-missed fun, screening on 35mm, co-written by Sylvester Stallone and directed by one of Nitehawk’s favorites, Bob Clark.
Starring: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning
Corruption! Snooping reporters! Hula Hoops! Comedy! The Coen Brother’s screwball comedy The Hudsucker Proxy has it all! In it, the loveable but naive mailworker Norville Barnes is placed at the head of Hudsucker Industries after its president commits suicide. And while the board members of Hudsucker Industries think they can control this moron by driving the company into the ground and scooping up its stocks for cheap, he turns the tables by conjuring up an invention that sweeps the nation and wins the hearts of America’s public. Plus, a tough cooke reporter is on the case to expose the impending scandal.
