Movies
Exit The Dragon, Enter The Tiger
DRUNKEN MASTERS DOJO Of all the Brucesploitation films to emerge in the wake of Bruce Lees death, none is more shameless than this one, which confusingly posits professional Lee impersonator Bruce Li as Lees authorized successor, and sends Li to avenge Lees death. This is martial-arts meta-fiction at its finest.
The Cowguys’ Great Escape
The Cowguys return to present their Great Escape a fun-filled show that juggles magic, comedy and, well, juggling, along with a tribute to Harry Houdini! Guaranteed good times for the whole family. Proceeds go to support Movember. Nov. 18 & 20 | 1:30 PM | $5 children | $10
Drive
Ryan Gosling (very quietly) channels his inner Travis Bickle in this tale of a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver and what happens when he takes on the wrong heist. Pitched perfectly between Roger Corman and Michael Mann, this is pure cinema, a grenade of image and
Raising Arizona
COENOVEMBER A Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote chase that tears straight through the heart of the Reagan-era nuclear family, Raising Arizona in nonetheless level-headed enough to know that you can’t sell leaf-tables and no chairs. Chairs, you got a dinette set. No chairs, you got dick!
Last House on the Left, The
DAVID HESS MEMORIAL SCREENING To keep from fainting during Cravens directorial debut about parents taking brutal revenge on the gang that raped and murdered their daughter keep repeating, “It’s only a movie…It’s only a movie…” Plus, see star David Hess in Smash Cut the same night!
Genocide Revealed
FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE This multiple award-winning doc exposes the 193233 Kremlin-engineered famine in Soviet-occupied Ukraine, and the accompanying mass arrests and executions of Ukrainian citizens and leaders. Narrated by Graham Greene. English subtitles. Director Yurij Luhovy will introduce the film and host a Q&A after the screening.
Elf
Get in the holiday spirit by getting in touch with your inner elf! The film features Will Ferrels first solo lead performance and balances the hipster appeal of Zooey Deschanel with the anti-hipster-ness of James Caan, Ed Asner and the king of buttoned-down comedy, Bob Newhart.
They Call Me Bruce?
DRUNKEN MASTERS DOJO This month, we kick it on the lighter side of Brucesploitation with this mistaken-identity comedy starring Korean punching bag Johnny Yune (Cannonball Run) as the Dragon-ganger and a young Margaux Hemingway as his gwai-lo love interest.
50/50
Chances are better than even youll enjoy this dramedy about a 27-year-old (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) whose life is turned upside-down by cancer. Based on the true story of screenwriter Will Reiser, 50/50 offers a glut of laughter, moments of sorrow and a moving portrait of life, love and friendship. (Exclaim)
Blood Simple.
COENOVEMBER Now, in Russia, they got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else. That’s the theory, anyway. But what I know about is Texas. An’ down here, you’re on your own.