Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Jenna Boyd, Bradley Whitford

Bridget (Blake Lively), Carmen (America Ferrera), Lena (Alexis Bledel) and Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) are best friends living in Maryland. After many summers together, the four are finally going their separate ways for a few months: while Bridget heads to Mexico, and Lena visits family in Greece, Carmen and Tibby stay closer to home. No matter where they are, they are connected by a pair of jeans that they take turns sharing — pants that fit all four girls and exemplify their tight bond.

Starring: Jason Bateman, Quinta Brunson, Idris Elba, Fortune Feimster, Ginnifer Goodwin, Maurice LaMarche, Ke Huy Quan, Jean Reno, Shakira, Jenny Slate

In Zootopia 2, detectives Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who arrives in Zootopia and turns the mammal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.

Starring: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Peter Dinklage, Jeff Goldblum, Bowen Yang

Elphaba, now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her fight for the freedom of Oz’s silenced Animals and desperately trying to expose the truth she knows about The Wizard. Glinda, meanwhile, has become the glamorous symbol of Goodness for all of Oz, living at the palace in Emerald City and reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. Under the instruction of Madame Morrible, Glinda is deployed to serve as an effervescent comfort to Oz, reassuring the masses that all is well under the rule of The Wizard. As Glinda’s stardom expands and she prepares to marry Prince Fiyero in a spectacular Ozian wedding, she is haunted by her separation from Elphaba. She attempts to broker a conciliation between Elphaba and The Wizard, but those efforts will fail, driving Elphaba and Glinda only further apart. The aftershocks will transform Boq and Fiyero forever, and threaten the safety of Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose, when a girl from Kansas comes crashing into all their lives. As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Arthur Kennedy, Barry Sullivan, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Lucero, and Carlos Berry as “Runt”

Everyone!!! Out of the August water! Drones sight SHARK! swimming in Brooklyn – and The Deuce has the footage!!

Brawny bad-boy braggart gets his illegal gun-running ‘nads caught (and nearly blown to bits!) between a rock and a hard place and opts to join up with a shady “Professor” and his dalliance-prone “daughter” for some deep-sea shenanigans searching shipwrecks for some elusive “shark proteins”??!!?? Wherein both “gun”-running and “shark proteins” are perhaps but euphemisms for more suspect, hence, more profitable, hence, more dangerous doings!!??!! And bolstering this bevy of desperate desperadoes – a drunkard of a “Doc” and the trickster tyke “terrible” raffishly referred to as “Runt” – the whole hot-house stew of backstabbing crew set sail for a sweaty, smokey, sun-baked dip into a sea of Sudanese skullduggery… with REAL SHARKS!! ACTUAL REAL SHARKS!!

Famously touted in the pages of Life magazine for the real-life death-by-shark-attack of one of its scuba-diving stunt-men (“WITH 2 PAGES OF COLOR PICTURES”!!) – and generally derided by director and critics alike (due to some dastardly production-studio-done re-editing and re-branding of Fuller’s delivered finished film, formerly called – after Reynold’s one-named character – “Caine“) – but the brush of the fiery Fuller can still be felt… with its filmmaking that furrows in both fluidity and brute force… Suspenses suspended – terror truncated – letting “life” breeze into the fore… with REAL SHARKS!!

The loud-mouthed louts all brylcreemed and jeaned up for 42nd’s Anco Theatre‘s “top-billed” biker bonanza – Rebel Rousers – were perhaps too needing of 2 wheels firmly gripped to terra firma to venture a ride on the SHARK! tide… but The Deuce gets its kicks in the deep water – where danger lurks!! 

Starring: Hazel O’Connor, Phil Daniels, Jon Finch, Jonathan Pryce

Pre-party in Lo-Res with DJ Tony Presedo

An exciting new wave soundtrack permeates this poignant rags to riches story of a talented and rebellious young singer-songwriter. Hazel O’Connor gives a tour-de-force performance as Kate, the lead singer of the rock group Breaking Glass. Kate’s socialist ideals are juxtaposed to her pragmatic rock manager, Danny (Phil Daniels, Quadrophenia), the streetwise hustler who discovers her and develops her into a star. The film pivots around the struggle for artistic recognition and an energetic singer whose talent and sanity are jeopardized by the music business power structure. O’Connor’s vibrant music—she wrote and performs thirteen songs for the film—is extremely captivating even to the ear uninitiated in new wave music.

Made by writer-director Brian Gibson (What’s Love Got to Do with It), with producers Davina Belling and Clive Parsons (Scum and Gregory’s Girl), on location in London, Breaking Glass is one of the few mainstream films set firmly in the then-nascent punk and new wave milieu. The film captures the excitement, innovation, passion and anger that courses through the music and its surrounding culture. O’Connor’s original soundtrack, produced by longtime David Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti, spawned five singles and reached number five on the UK Albums Chart. Supporting O’Connor and Daniels are Jonathan Pryce (Brazil) as the band’s junkie saxophonist, Mark Wingett (Quadrophenia) on guitar and Jon Finch (Hitchcock’s Frenzy) as the powerful music producer who takes Kate to superstardom. Stephen Goldblatt’s (Outland) scope cinematography grants the film an appropriately epic quality. Now, for the first time in North America, Breaking Glass appears in its original, longer UK cut, in a new restoration created from archival film elements.

Before the movie:
Night Flight – Ozzy Osbourne Supercut (2025, 15 Mins)
It’s Ozzymania, Night Flight-style, in this quick-cut tribute featuring moments from Night Flight’s iconic ’80s interviews with Ozzy, as well as performance footage and Ozzy-flavored cult films including Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath (1963), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), and more. Edited by John Mark Lapham

Starring: Celia Kaye, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, George Kennedy, Carlos Romero and Junior as “Rontu”

As Summer winds its days down, join The Deuce for a desert-island idyll as we journey to the Pacific Paradise of ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS! But… beware!! Because this Paradise comes with a perilous price to pay… and dolphins!!!

A true(ish) tale from the 1835 Southern California Channel Islands of firebrand(ish) Chumash Tribe teen Karana’s travails and triumphs… after her Tribe is tricked and turned on by bigoty blubbery otter trappers (jerks!) and – for other reasons to be revealed – the winsome, lithesome lass is left alone(ish) to fend for herself on her lonesome(ish) island home… to win some and lose some… all the time tasked to teach herself the toilsome skills of survival traditionally left to the “men-folk” and formerly forbidden to female doing… Net-fishin’! Fightin’ feral dogs! Featherin’ arrows! Bow-huntin!! All the while talkin’, walkin’, and sometimes swimin’ with all manner of Nature’s natural kingdom… Too cute!!

Based on Scott O’Dell’s much-loved Newbery Medal for children’s literature award-winning novel – book and film both becoming touchstones of proto-girl-power feminism (especially for “us” “Gen-Xers” – you know who you are! Or maybe you don’t –  considering that ever-creeping senility thing…), director James B. Clark could hardly have been more in his métier, coming off his previous year’s top-dolphin flick Flipper  – having already helmed the classic “boy-and-his-dog” cry-fest A Dog Of Flanders, and soon to spin another titan tale of a child’s communion with Nature My Side Of The Mountain (don’t think we ain’t thinkin’ of doin’ that one someday, Deuceies!), as well as – omg! – the Eastern Shore set Chincoteague wild ponies romp Misty!! Too cute!!

Playing our winsome, lithesome lass, Celia Kaye – who would as the later (liltingly weddedly named) Celia Milius appear in two of hubby John’s films: Big Wednesday (“Bride of Bear”) and Conan The Barbarian (“High Priestess” – uncredited – give the lady lady some credit, John!) – garnered for her Crusoe-ish performance the 1965 Golden Globe Award for “Most Promising Newcomer,” while her co-star (the son of Disney’s Old Yeller titular dog-star AND Clark’s aforementioned A Dog Of Flanders!) Junior (“as Rontu”) – himself garnering a PATSY (Picture Animal Top Star Of The Year) Award from the American Humane Association… the award-winning duo also having become constant companions on and off screen! Too cute!!

While eschewing some of the book’s more narrativities, Clark and ace cinematographer Leo Tover (of, among other acmes, Shoedsack’s The Monkey’s Paw, Walsh’s The Tall Men, Journey To The Center Of The Earth, and again with Clark on – omg – Misty!!) craft a film to be felt more than followed… At once languid in its beachy islandy revery and – with a breathlessness physical and emotional – focusing as much on the overwhelming beauty of its vistas and world of Nature as on its heroine’s strength – not just for survival – but in her capacity for compassion, empathy, and kindness in the face of a world as adversarial as it is Edenic… Perhaps a bit too tender for the Times Square-tugger crowd… instead film-fan families flocked to the rarified air of Upper East’s RKO 86th Street Theatre to take in this tale of feminine fortitude, and for which The Deuce-dopes strongly encourage the bringing of your own or otherwise borrowed from friends children and/or dogs and/or birds and/or dolphins for this rare(ish) Deuce foray into family-entertainment territory… Too cute!!

Starring: Schuyler Fisk, Bre Blair, Rachael Leigh Cook, Larisa Oleynik, Tricia Joe, Stacy Linn Ramsower, Zelda Harris, Vanessa Zima, Christian Oliver, Brooke Adams, Bruce Davison, Ellen Burstyn

Kristy Thomas (Schuyler Fisk) and her six best friends struggle to make their successful business — the Baby-Sitters Club — into a full-fledged summer day camp. When a group of adults led by their crotchety neighbor, Emily Haberman (Ellen Burstyn), tries to shut down the camp, the girls must band together to keep their dream alive. Meanwhile, each club member faces her own personal challenges, including divorced parents, a discouraging diabetes diagnosis and an innocent crush on an older boy.

Starring: Karan Ashley, Johnny Yong Bosch, Steve Cardenas, Jason David Frank, Amy Jo Johnson, David Yost, Paul Freeman, Nicholas Bell

After a construction crew accidentally cracks open a gigantic egg that has imprisoned evil maniac Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman) for centuries, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers prepare to face their most formidable foe yet. The vengeful Ooze kills their elderly mentor, Zordon (Nicholas Bell), and with him the source of the Rangers’ power. Stunned by Zordon’s death, the Rangers struggle to contain Ooze without the help of the Zords, the giant mechanical robots they have grown to depend upon in battle.

Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chad Michael Murray, Manny Jacinto, Chloe Fineman, Mark Harmon, Stephen Tobolowsky, Julia Butters

22 years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike twice.

Starring: Paul Reubens, Penelope Ann Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino, Wayne White, Susan Tyrrell

Playful Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) operates a fantastical farm with talking animals and hot-dog trees. One day, after a giant tornado hits, Pee-wee finds a circus has landed in his yard. He befriends the manager, Mace Montana (Kris Kristofferson), and develops a crush on a trapeze performer (Valeria Golino), even though he already has a fiancée (Penelope Ann Miller). Pee-wee tries to excite the town about the new circus, but most of the residents want it gone and harass Pee-wee because of it.