May 30th
9:00pm | X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) | PG-13 |
EVERYBODY is here. We've got Storm, we've got Wolvy, Rogue, Raven, the Professor, Young Professor, Doctor Metal, even Colossus! How is this possible you ask? Time travel, bby! The robots have taken over, and surprise surprise they're friggin' evil, so the only way to save both humanity and... mutanity? is to send super-healing Wolverine back in time to stop Mystique from screwing up an assassination attempt. It's a good one! Don't miss it!
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Huge Ackman, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Anna Paquin, Halle Berry, Peter Dinklage
May 29th
9:00pm | Last Crusade (1989) / Crystal Skull (2008) | PG-13 |
Day 2 of the Indy Memorial Day Marathon! Last Crusade is another fantastic action-adventure movie, and just slightly less goofy than Temple, as it is still dealing with magical Jesus cups and mystical object-obsessed nazis. Which was a real thing. I wonder if they ever found that Spear of Destiny? Hey SS, I think I found your next Indy movie, you know, since it seems like we alternate between nonsense and nazis. What's that? He already made another one and it's about some nonsense? Dammit Steve! Stick to the format! And then, yeah fine, we can watch Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but I'm not gonna be nice to it!!
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, River Phoenix, John Rhys-Davies, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt
May 28th
9:30pm | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) / Temple of Doom (1984) | PG |
Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Grifter has redeemed the holiday marathon, in the form of Crystal Skull, Crystal Skull: Director's Commentary, The Making of IJatKotCS: The Extended Documentary, and probably some eps of Scrappy Doo just to really piss me off. Just kidding! We're gonna watch the trilogy! But split up cuz Raiders really does deserve its own night. It's THE BEST action-adventure movie ever made. The absolute gold standard of the genre. And surprisingly relevant with the bad guys some 40 years later... Get your popping corn and your quoting fingers ready for the kickoff to this Memorial Day Marathon!!
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies, Alfred Molina, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri
May 26th
11:00pm | 30 Days of Night (2007) | R |
In a small Alaskan town that receives a month of pure darkness per year, a small group of locals fight to survive an onslaught of vampires that I think came from Russia? This is not your sister's sparkly vampire movie. This is a seriously scary flick with freaky-ass monsters and incredibly tense downtimes between gruesome attack scenes. Make sure you've got your popcorn and partners before the sun goes down at the drive-in tonight... it's the Friday Night Midnight Movie!
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster
May 23rd
9:30pm | F&F Presents: Ford v Ferrari (2019) | PG-13 |
In our final FINAL film of the franchise before everybody goes out to the theatre to see Fast X, here is the indie bio-pic about the historical rise of the Corona-swilling, BBQ-picnicing, family-obsessesd series that started it all 20 years later! Hang on, I'm getting a note from my intern... Yes.. Yes. What? Wait, really? Shit. And the video store is closed? Goddammit. Alright well spin it as just a really great film we have to watch anyway. Vroooooom!
Starring: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe
May 22nd
10:00pm | A Few Good Men (1992) | R |
This tense courtroom drama written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Rob Reiner has a lot of words flying at ya, but I'm only interested in the Truth! Kevin Bacon and some others murdered a dude, but they claim they were only following orders. Wait, wasn't that ruled out in the Nuremberg Trials? Oh not for our guys? Hmmm. Well it's probably addressed in this, most things are. You know it's Martial Law Arts Monday!
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Bacon, Demi Moore, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollack
May 21st
10:00pm | Willow (1988) | PG-13 |
I haven't seen the new TV show, nor did I even know about it, but let's just leave it at "not well-received" and watch the original classic. It's Tabba's redeem! A little person (somebody look up the current pc terminology for me please) farmer is enlisted to help protect an important prophetized babby from an evil queen. Val Kilmer is there doing some great comic relief sidekicking in what some might call his best role. There's sweet medieval battle action and awesome cheesy special effects that don't hold up. But overall this is just a classic high fantasy with great characters, and it's a really fun time!
Starring: Val Kilmer, Warwick Davis, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh
May 19th
1:00am | Tremors (1990) | PG-13 |
Secret Late Midnight Movie! Thanks to all who could join, this one sure holds up! Just a fantastic, sand-wormy good time all around. And now we can watch all 17 sequels! WOOOO
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Reba McEntire, Ariana Richards
May 16th
10:00pm | The Wolverine (2013) | PG-13 |
Jumping back into the X-Men series after First Class and the one-off Origins: Wolverine, this one is a bit different than the others. It's a more concentrated action movie with Wolvy in Japan, and while there are certainly some other mutants around, it's not at all like the epic ensembles of characters taking place presumably around the same time in America. It's also not quite the brooding, excellent character study that is Logan. So somewhere in between. I think this is an underrated action movie. I mean, it's Wolverine fighting Yakuza mutants on top of a bullet train flying through Japan. That's comic book gold!
Starring: Huge Jackedman, Tao Okamoto, Will Yun Lee, Rila Fukushima, Famke Janssen
May 15th
10:00pm | Rocky II (1979) | PG |
Rocky lives champ life comfortably at home, while Apollo goads him from the sidelines into a rematch. All the players return for this worthy successor which Sly also wrote and directed. It's a bit predictable, and doesn't quite pack the emotional punch of the original, but it's still a damn good movie. And it's Martial Arts Monday!
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Car Weathers, Burgess Meredith
May 14th
10:00pm | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) | PG-13 |
Fun 60s spy heist flick from Guy Ritchie based on the old TV show of the equally annoying to type same name. We'll travel the world, see some pretty sites, look at some pretty people, and drive some fancy cars! There's also like 10 plots, so I'm just gonna concentrate on those other things, and if I end up understanding anything going on, it's a bonus. Come on, watch this movie. Your mom likes this movie. Call your mom, watch it with her. All moms are welcome! Happy Mother's Day!
Starring: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Hugh Grant, Jared Harris
May 12th
11:00pm | Knock at the Cabin (2023) | R |
While vacationing at a remote cabin cut off from the world, a family is taken hostage by a group of armed strangers that demand they make a choice - either them or the apocalypse. If that sounds like a cheeky bit of head-scratchery, then we're all in this together. I know nothing about this, but M. Night Shyamalan has pulled some hum-dingers on us before. To me it sounds kinda like Funny Games meets My Two Dads meets Left Behind: The Kirk Cameron Chronicles. I love a new Shyamalan! It's the Friday Night Midnight Movie!!
Starring: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Grint, Kristen Cui
May 9th
10:00pm | Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) | PG-13 |
Can I get away with calling this parody of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves a remake for Twosday? Hmmm, I think so! Personal favorite Cary Elwes leads the charge in this later Mel Brooks comedy classic. It's got all the robin hoodery of other Robin Hoodses, but now with jokes! Some very very dumb ones. Join for dumb fun!
Starring: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Isaac Hayes, Dave Chappelle, Patrick Stewart
May 8th
10:00pm | The Family (2013) | R |
Found this Luc Besson mafia movie I never knew existed. It's about a mob family under witness protection in France who find their old ways creepin' back up. It's supposedly a comedy, but I watched the trailer and I'm not sure... I guess we'll see. Does Besson just like walk around pooping out movies like rabbit pellets? He can't help it, just constantly digesting and leaving behind this trail of movies I have to catch up on while he's got two or three more in the works?
Starring: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, Tommy Lee Jones
May 7th
10:00pm | Cocaine Bear (2023) | R |
I don't know anything about this movie or the true events that inspired it, but if I had to guess it's probably a very serious survival film à la The Revenant, or maybe the titular character is some sort of drug lord kingpin with a scary nickname like Scarface or Bill the Butcher. J/k! You asked for it; here it is! Let's get silly mf's!
Starring: Kerry Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Ray Liotta
May 5th
11:00pm | The Final Girls (2015) | PG-13 |
This is a wonderful, funny, meta horror tribute film that just gets it all right. Kinda on the indie side, so it's a shame it doesn't have a bigger following, but let's just say "future cult classic." A girl grieving the death of her mother, a famous scream queen of the 80s, and her friends are pulled into the world of her old movie. Mother and daughter must fight side-by-side to avoid the serial killer's machete while the usual suspects are killed off one-by-one. It's a great homage to 80s horror, an awesome original idea, and that's right, it's the Friday Night Midnight Movieeeee!!
Starring: Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Adam Devine, Thomas Middleditch, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Alia Shawkat
May 2nd
9:00pm | Following (1998) | R | / Phone Booth (2003) | R |
It's a 2wo 4 Toosday Double Feature!! First up we have Christopher Nolan's directorial debut, a short neo noir mystery about a writer who follows people around London for material. It's a taut little film and a worthy debut from one of the greatest directors ever.
Aaaand then there's Joel Schumacher... but seriously there's something about combining the wackiness of a Larry Cohen script with the hackiness of a Schumacher-directed "bottle" film taking place almost entirely in an NYC phonebooth that actually works as a fun, if ridiculous, B-movie thriller.
Did I put these two together as a statement juxtaposing NY/London and the free-roaming vs trapped main characters, further demonstrated by the artful, indie style of Nolan's early work as compared to a Schumacher/Cohen bloated budget b-movie? Or are they both just kinda short movies? Hmmm...
Starring: Jeremy Theobald, Lucy Russell, John Nolan, Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, Radha Mitchell
May 1st
10:00pm | Fighting with My Family (2019) | PG-13 |
True story from Stephen Merchant about the Knight family, an indie wrestling troupe that makes a living performing at small venues around the UK. The kids dream of one day joining the WWE. It's a funny feel good film for wrestling fans and more! We haven't watched many wrestling movies.. the absolute classic No Holds Barred of course. No word on if there's any pants-shitting jokes in this one though. It's Martial Arts Monday, BROTHER!
Starring: Florence Pugh, Lena Headey, The Rock, Vince Vaughn, Nick Frost, Jack Lowden
