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Tough Guy Cinema: TOTAL RECALL

Terror Tuesday: LONG T I C ISLAND KETS, TIMES, CANNIBAL MASSACRE

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Tough Guy Cinema: TOTAL RECALL Terror Tuesday:

Action Pack: ZOOLANDER Quote-Along

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Drafthouse Films: CHEAP THRILLS

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Drafthouse Films: CHEAP THRILLS The Late Show: THE ROOM

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CANNIBAL MASSACRE

Slightly Off Cinema: HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE

Action Pack: DUMB AND DUMBER Quote-Along

Class of 84: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

Video Vortex: TURKISH CAPTAIN AMERICA AND SANTO VS SPIDER-MAN

The Late Show: JAWS

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DAY OF THE GUN Slightly Off Cinema: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

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Action Pack: PURPLE RAIN Sing-Along

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Bangarang!: THREE KINGS

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The Late Show: TWISTER

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Slightly Off Cinema: DAZED AND CONFUSED

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Action Pack: Queen Sing-Aong

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Class of 84: INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM Dinner Party

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Class of 84: BLOOD SIMPLE

Class of 84: INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM

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Cartoon Cereal Party The Late Show: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

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Slightly Off Cinema: ALTERED STATES

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Action Pack: Beyonce Sing-Along

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Class of 84: THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION

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Drafthouse Films: THE FINAL MEMBER Spaghetti Western Wednesday: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

CLASS OF 1984
84 TURNS 30

CLASS OF 1984
84 TURNS 30

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BEST BUDS

IFC SLIGHTLY OFF SUNDAYS

BEST BUDS

THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION (1984) Witness the worlds leading surgeon/inventor/guitar-slinger battle soulless Lectroids from the 8th Dimension! His weapons are advanced, his wits are sharp, and his #1 pal is Jeff Goldblum in a gigantic, dumb cowboy hat! See the rhythm section of the Hong Kong Cavaliers team with the trans-reality researchers of YoyoDyne Industries to defeat the maniacal, possessed Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow) and his reptilian henchmen. 4/29 A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) Wes Cravens 1984 horror film took the slasher movie and made it something other. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET inspires dread in the way that it plays with the audiences perceptions of illusion and reality, leaving us ever unsure if what were witnessing is the dream of a frightened teenager or their very real and gruesome death. And Robert Englunds Fred Krueger is a cinematic killer like no other. Hes no hockey mask-wearing jock lumbering down the street. Freddy is clever and stylish and ethereal, and once you close your eyes and drift off to sleep, hes all-powerful. 4/8

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984) Indiana is back in action and on to new adventures. After a deal for an artifact in Hong Kong goes south, Indy and his best pal, Short Round, are on the run with a whiny lounge singer they picked up along the way. When their plane crashes in a poverty stricken town in India, Indy takes it upon himself to investigate their case of missing children as he searches for some mystical stones. Chilled monkey brains, bugs galore and a terrifying guy who will literally rip the heart out of your chest follow in one of the greatest action adventure follow ups of all-time. 4/24 PURPLE RAIN SING-ALONG (1984) We invite all of you to join us for these special screenings of PURPLE RAIN where the normal Alamo rules do not apply. If you feel passionate about telling the world about the Beautiful Ones, please stand up and sing your hearts out while emoting in those white lace gloves you brought to the theater with you. And if you want to really belt it out during the title song when The Kid finally realizes that Lisa and Wendy wrote something awesome that deserves to be celebrated? Were all about that, too. The only thing we ask is that if you decide to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka, please make sure you know which body of water youre standing at the shore of before you take off almost all of your clothes. The Action Pack is screening PURPLE RAIN, so lets all get crazy! 4/15

HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE (2004) HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE has everything you want in a completely silly, sweet and harmless stoner comedy: jokes gleefully perpetuating racial stereotypes, Neil Patrick Harris being a badass, an escaped cheetah and, of course, those little delicious White Castle burgers. 4/6 JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (1973) The concept was to combine the ruggedness of the Holy Land landscapes with contemporary flourishes that let everone know this is not KING OF KINGS or THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. The cast is shown traveling to the set via Partridge Family-style bus, like college students on a sight-seeing excursion. As Judas guilt over betraying Christ drives him to the brink of insanity in the Damned For All Time number, he visualizes himself being chased across the desert by tanks. The temple marketplace that Jesus shuts down sells hand grenades, machine guns, bongs and designer clothes. When Judas delivers the show-stopping Superstar finale, he envisions himself in a sort of ersatz-Vegas showroom: He descends into an ancient amphitheater while clinging to a shimmering silver cross and performs in a screamingly early-70s fringed white jumpsuit, while booty-shaking chorus girls strut their stuff in ivory Afro wigs, skimpy bikinis, fluffy boas and glittery silver eye makeup. A truly fascinating piece of pop culture. 4/13

DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993) This just might be the most endlessly watchable movie of alltime. Linklaters take on the last day of school in 1976 and the teen cliques that populate a small Texas town could have easily succumbed to teen movie clichs, but his honest approach and what feels like effortless execution makes DAZED a genuine and true portrait of its time and place. 4/20 ALTERED STATES (1980) Brilliant but admittedly insane scientist Dr. Edward Jessup begins experimenting with hallucinations caused by prolonged confinement in an isolation tank. After a failing marriage he find himself in Mexico where he hopes to participate in a tribal ceremony involving a broth of psychedelic mushrooms that he is told will propel him into the void to unite with his unborn soul. Hallucinate he does, with time seeming nonexistent until he snaps back to reality hours or days later. He takes the mixture back with him and combining it with sensory deprivation finds that his visions develop further into physical manifestations - an x-ray reveals that his skull took the shape of an ape! Fixated as he is, he sets himself in the tank again, unsupervised, and emerges as something terrifying. Watching ALTERED STATES in the theater will be like a sensory immersion tank - your skin will tingle, your eyes will widen, youll be rich with cinematic platinum. 4/27

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ACTION PACK

INTERACTIVE SCREENINGS AND CINEMATIC EVENTS

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BLOOD SIMPLE (1984) A brilliant modern film noir set against the backdrop of a desolate Texas landscape BLOOD SIMPLE is as relentless and brutal as any crime thriller youll ever see. Also a damn entertaining film it makes you squirm, hold your breath and laugh out loud, sometimes in the same scene. This sequence of emotion runs through the film until the end of its climatic final scene. 4/23 THREE KINGS (1999) In a war without heroes they were kings. Bangarang! presents: Marky Mark, Spike Jonze, Ice Cube and the Cloon Dog star in this David O. Russell jam about 4 soldiers who set out to resteal stolen gold from Kuwait after finding a secret map hidden in an Iraqi soldiers butt. But when this gang stumbles upon a group of persecuted civilians rising up against Saddam Hussein, they have a conflict of conscience and decide to help out. 4/17 TURKISH CAPTAIN AMERICA AND SANTO VS SPIDER-MAN (1973) Video Vortex brings you upside down drop kicks in karate dojos! Fistfights on top of speeding cars! Spider-Mans ability to clone himself at will (and often)! With non-stop fights and a total disregard for logic, this movie illustrates the proper way to realize the dreams of a thirteen-year-old without spending two hundred bazillion dollars doing it. At one point, SpiderMan and his girlfriend make love through his costume. Three puppets show up and start laughing. By the way, this movie is Turkish. Only $1 on glorious VHS. 4/10

THE LATE SHOW

BRINGING THE BEST OF THE BEST AND THE BEST OF THE REST

CHEAP THRILLS (2013) After being knocked out in a fight at a strip club parking lot for something he didnt even do. Craig wakes in Colin and Violets lavish home, where the group has relocated the party. While scoping out the stylish house, Vince discovers a safe filled with cash and ropes a hesitant Craig into a plan to rob them. It seems like an easy task, but theres more to this couple than meets the eye... THE FINAL MEMEBER (2014) Founded and curated by Sigurdur Siggi Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm whale and every thing in between. But, lamentably, Siggis collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a human specimen. As the competition for eternal penile preservation heats up between the two men. Siggi soon discovers that this process is more complicated than it initially appeared. 4/30

WE WILL ROCK YOU: THE QUEEN SING-ALONG Freddie Mercury is the greatest rock singer of all time. PERIOD. He came, he saw, he conquered, and he left the world a completely changed and better place. A master of constant reinvention, Mercury made opera cool, mustaches a necessity, and full-length microphone stands excessive. Well have live performances, music videos, and of course a couple of movie montages as you wail out some of the best songs of all time. 4/21 BEYONCE SING-ALONG PARTY Now, at long last, were celebrating the reigning queen: Beyonc! Why? Because she is the most perfect person on the planet. Our Action Pack DJs will be putting together collections of ALL of the best, with hits from the latest super unexpected visual album release all the way back to early Destinys Child. Well have rings you can put on it for Single Ladies, and more fun surprises throughout the event. And you wont even have to jump off a building to get to the show! 4/28 DUMB AND DUMBER QUOTE-ALONG I know what youre thinking. Just when you thought The Action Pack couldnt possibly be any dumber, we go and do something like this... and totally redeem ourselves! If you promise to sing Mockingbird with us at The Action Packs DUMB & DUMBER Quote-Along we promise we wont put any Turbo Lax in your drinks... So check your intellects at the door as quote, sing, and have a jalapeno eating contest before the show. Now if that isnt stupid enough for you, I dont know what is. 4/7

THE LATE SHOW We are extremely excited to announce The Late Show. Every Saturday night at 10:30p we are bringing you the very best of cult, horror and sci-fi. Each month well provide a great pairing of midninght fare. Enjoy three weeks of surf and turf as we find the madening mayhem and terror from JAWS, TWISTER and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. However, to kick off everything we are introducing The Alamo to one of the most infamous movies to come out of the last decade, THE ROOM. THE ROOM (2003) Whether or not Tommy Wiseau intentionally shot his film as a black comedy, or if he is simply a completely inept filmmaker (and actor) is utterly irrelevant. THE ROOM will stand the test of time as one of the most mind-bendingly awesome offerings to ever drop from the celluloid heavens. Completely financed and distributed by Mr. Wiseau, this divine piece of WTF-ery has built a cult following playing midnight screenings across the country and solidified its place as an insanely unique phenomenon. The Guardian described it as a mix of Tennessee Williams, Ed Wood and R. Kellys Trapped in the Closet. Thats about as apt a description as we could possibly provide. 4/5

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INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM DINNER PARTY From the moment you laid eyes on the iconic dinner scene from 1984s INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM you were either so grossed out that even your buttery popcorn seemed to squirm before you OR you thought monkey brains sounded quite appetizing. No matter your preference for baby snakes; fresh or al dente, weve got a Dinner Party fit for you. A four course meal paried with Doctor Jones, Short Round and Willie Scott. CLUB OBI WAN TON SOUP Pork dumplings in clear broth with mushrooms, scallions and baby bok choy. LANDING IN INDIA Dal, green chutney, papadams, samosa on banana leaf. SHRIMP KORMA Shrimp in a rich nut-based curry with green beans and cherry tomato. CHILLED MONKEY BRAINS Strawberry semifreddo, ginger consomme.

THE LATE SHOW

A MONTH OF SURF AND TURF AND MURDER

JAWS (1975) A shark is prowling the waters off Amity Island and it is up to police chief Martin Brody to hunt down and kill this deadly predator. What more is there to say about this American classic? It has everything you look for in a movie - kids in peril, drunken sea shanties and Richard Dreyfuss in a cage. Just dont blame us when you develop trepidations about a trip to the beach this summer. 4/12 TWISTER (1996) TWISTER will always have the rare distinction of being the first blockbuster ever made about tornadoes. The always awesome Bill Paxton stars as a retired storm chaser who is sucked into one last ride with his old team. When his soon-to-be ex-wife Jo shows him the completed tornado-analyzing device, Dorothy, that was based off of his previous design from his days with the team. The more Bill tries to leave his old days of chasing tornadoes the harder he finds it to be.4/19 THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972) The plot centers on the SS Poseidon, an aged luxury liner from the golden age of travel,[citation needed] on her final voyage from New York City to Athens before being sent to the scrapyard. On New Years Eve, she is overturned by a tsunami caused by an underwater earthquake. Passengers and crew are trapped inside, and a rebellious preacher attempts to lead a small group of survivors to safety. 4/26

DAZED AND CONFUSED