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The next Head Cleaner Theatre will be a special two-night event, A TV HUG TWOFER! A pair of video mixtapes curated and edited by Mark Willey composed of cartoons, commercials, music videos, and various video detritus of the childhoods of a…
"Like Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Georgiy Daneliya’s 1986 film Kin-dza-dza! is, at bottom, biting social satire disguised as dystopian science fiction. Deploying unabashedly absurdist humor, both films decry the alienating effects of bureaucracy, abhor the arbitrary terrors imposed by an authoritarian regime, and exhibit…
"A surprisingly spellbinding reimagining of one of cinema's most infamous disasters, CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT is a stunning achievement." -Stephanie Malone, Morbidly Beautiful 44 years after the 1980 release of historical epic CALIGULA, producer and reconstructionist Thomas Negovan has realized…
"Ridley Scott’s dust-caked rush of female empowerment is an absolute thrill, thanks to engrossing performances from Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, and a sparkling debut script from Callie Khouri." –Times (UK) Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a…
“You’ve never seen a hellraiser quite like Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a film that stormed cinemas 60 years ago and, by God, still packs a punch.” The Guardian In the annals of petty Hollywood rivalries, few loom larger than…
“A vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever” -Scott Tobias, Guardian In 1991, Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho took the literary world by storm with its shocking depiction of the excesses of the 1980s as told through the devious actions…
It's J.D. Vance's worst nightmare! When a killer recliner falls in love with a girl, it's up to a disgraced Jewish Rabbi and a couple of brokenhearted detectives to figure out how to stop the bloody carnage that will follow.…
"A fourth-wall-shattering, stream-of-consciousness black comedy that mocks war, America, Hollywood, television, the music business and the Monkees themselves. These days, it is fondly remembered as one of the weirdest and best rock movies ever made." -Guardian Hey, hey, it’s the…
"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." -Roger…
"Bold, inventive and buttocks-out bonkers!" -The Incredible Suit One of the most absolutely nutso films of the 21st century is also one of the best. Pushing the boundaries of cinematic logic, Leos Carax's surrealist comedy-musical-Lynchian psychodrama extravaganza is a hallucinatory epic…
Kids these days don't understand the simple pleasures of gathering your friends around the family PC, loading up AOL, navigating to some weird website, refreshing your flash plug-in, and waiting half and hour to load a 3-minute video of a…
TINA! You fat lard! Come celebrate the 20th Anniversary of weirdo millennial cult film NAPOLEON DYNAMITE. Or do whatever you feel like you wanna do! GOSH! We'll have plenty of tots, friendship bracelets, pin the tail on the Liger and glamour…
Could the most ridiculed entry in the Friday the 13th franchise secretly be one of the best? Set in the year 2455, Jason X puts Jason Voorhees on a spaceship and launches him into the great beyond...with a gaggle of…
Nieces and nephews, grab your uncles. And uncles, pack up the nieces/ nephews in the car and head over to Arkadin Cinema for a pancake breakfast screening of the John Hughes classic UNCLE BUCK. Tickets include pancakes! "An innocent and…
"The Killing of a Sacred Deer is humane and satirical, horrifying and hilarious." -David Sims, The Atlantic In 2017, the godfather of Greek Weird Wave produced his darkest, strangest film, a horror film with the twisted logic of a Grimm's fairy…
A direct sequel to last month's Knifetime selection, STALKED BY MY DOCTOR: PATIENT'S REVENGE continues the sordid tale of mentally disturbed Dr. Albert Beck (the ubiquitous Eric Roberts) after a jury finds him not guilty of the kidnapping and attempted…
"Problematic, troubling, dangerous even, but breathtakingly original, and absolutely true to the times. The cutting edge doesn't get any sharper than this." -Time Out Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy…
Darkly satirical, outrageous, and really fucking funny, Wonder Showzen was too good for this world. "Sesame Street on acid" barely scratches the surface of the depths of surreal strangeness reached by this truly singular comedy creation from John Lee and…
“Unhinged even for Takashi Miike... bloody and ejaculate-stained... reveling in ultraviolence” -Slant Magazine Prepare to descend into the gritty and violent underworld of Takashi Miike’s cult classic, Ichi the Killer. This wild yakuza-horror hybrid has endured as one of the…
Long talked about before almost anyone outside of Japan had ever seen it, Akira Ogata's Tokyo Cabbageman K recently emerged from the shadows much to the delight of weirdo underground trash cinema aficionados. Taking inspiration from Franz Kafka, Ogata's guerrilla-cinema 8mm…
