Cult Cinema
Once a month we’ll bring you a grab bag of cult, camp, sci-fi, MST3K, kung fu and downright badass movies. Click here to check out the First Friday Fright Night line up.
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Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Directed by Stephen Herek. US. 1989. PG. 90 min. MGM. 35mm.
- Fri, Mar 16, 9:45 pm
“Just stupid enough to be endearing.” (Rob Thomas, Capital Times)
“The boys are back in town – and back in the telephone-booth time machine. As these high school goofballs travel back in time to score some heavy dudes like Napoleon, Socrates, and Billy the Kid for their history presentation, they wrote themselves into the teen-movie pantheon. Everything Reeves has done since always has the whiff of “Ted” about it. Party on, dudes.” (Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle)
MST3K: Mitchell
Directed by Andrew McLaglen. US. 1975. R. 97 min. Rhino. DVD.
- Fri, Apr 20, 9:45 pm
Joe Don Baker is unappealing, doughy and alcoholic cop Mitchell who gets caught up in political intrigue and the local mafia drug trade after he’s called in to investigate the murder of a prowler by a local embezzler (played by John Saxton). This is the first of two Joe Don Baker films that the Satellite of love crew lambaste- the other being “Final Justice” (Mitchell in Italy), which we featured at the Colonial for out Cult Cinema show back in May ’1 1. More»
The Room
Directed by Tommy Wiseau. US. 2003. R. 99 min. Wiseau Films. 35mm.
- Fri, May 18, 9:45 pm
“Tommy Wiseau’s The Room may be the first true successor to the Rocky Horror [midnight movie] throne. Since ending a two-week run at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 theater in Los Angeles in 2003, Wiseau’s self-distributed anti-gem has nurtured a cult following through once-a-month midnight screenings. And in the time since, as devotees continue to plumb the mysteries of its mesmerizing inanity, the audience has taken ownership of it: They throw spoons. They shout a repertoire of canned and spontaneous zingers at the screen. They reenact whole scenes in front of the theater. They toss the ol’ pigskin around. More»
MST3K: The Beast of Yucca Flats
Directed by Coleman Francis. US. 1961/1995. NR. Shout! Factory. DVD.
- Fri, Jun 15, 9:45 pm
Join us again for more hijinks aboard the Satellite of Love as we accompany Mike, Crow and Tom Servo into the bleak, strangely narrated world of director Coleman Francis. The Beast of Yucca Flats follows the misadventures of former professional wrestler Tor Johnson as a defecting Russian scientist who strays onto a nuclear bomb testing site at just the wrong moment and is transformed into more of a monster of a man, with a predilection for strangling women. More»