“So valuable because it contains so little of the theatrics common to pop culture depictions of mental illness… The fundamental story, the core narrative of a young woman forced to confront her fundamental ambivalence towards life in a very strange…
SERIAL MOM (1994) — Celebrate Mother’s Day with John Waters!
“Sharply funny, wonderfully snarky, and a better satire of our true crime obsession than most anything this century—it remains a prescient, properly fun film without compare. It’s worth seeing for how titanically good Turner is alone.” – The Stranger The…
Mel Brooks’ underappreciated Hitchcock parody HIGH ANXIETY (1977)
“A riotous spoof of Alfred Hitchcock thrillers that doubles as a loving tribute to the master of suspense, Brooks reached his comedy peak with High Anxiety!” – Chuck O’Leary Like Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks’ underappreciated HIGH ANXIETY…
Alfred Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND (1945)
“The first picture on psychoanalysis is also a tale of suspense, and Hitchcock embellishes it with characteristically brilliant twists” – Time Out “The secret recesses of the mind are explored with brilliant and terrifying effect” (New York Herald Tribune) in…
TOP SECRET! (1984) — Val Kilmer stars in this hilarious cult-classic spy spoof
“ rock ‘n’ roll spy spoof may be the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team’s most consistent work… Val Kilmer is ridiculously charismatic!” – The AV Club In this outrageous comedy from the guys who brought you Airplane!, Val Kilmer…
POLICE SQUAD! Happy Hour — Best Eps + Drink Specials!
It sounded like a can’t-miss when the team behind Airplane! migrated to TV in 1982 for the half-hour cop-show parody Police Squad!, but the series floundered in the ratings, and was cancelled after only six episodes. Then, six years later, the characters returned…
I’M A CYBORG BUT THAT’S OK (2006)
“Witty, playful, romantic, tragic…a whole chocolate box of emotions in a highly decorative wrapping” – Variety An underseen and rarely screened offbeat romance from Park Chan-wook, the director of Oldboy and The Handmaiden, I’M A CYBORG BUT THAT’S OK is…
HEAT (1995) — 30th Anniversary!
“The Greatest Heist Movie Ever Made…one of those rare movies that promised the moon and the stars and delivered in every imaginable way” – Gerardo Valero, RogerEbert.com One of the definitive films of the 1990s, Michael Mann’s HEAT is an…
A PAGE OF MADNESS (1926) — silent experimental Japanese horror — $3
“Using superimpositions, rapid and insistent visual patterns, fantasy sequences, and the visual flamboyance of actors impersonating mad people, A Page of Madness builds an atmosphere of astonishing intensity.” – Chris Fujiwara A visionary masterpiece once thought lost forever, A PAGE…
BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES Happy Hour — Best Eps + Drink Specials!
Perhaps the finest audio-visual interpretation of the Dark Knight ever made, BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES remains the show by which all other superhero entertainment is judged. With Art Deco style, TAS told classic Caped Crusader stories with disarming elegance. With…