Halfway Repmageddon
Week 3 is almost upon us, but you’ve still got time to check out a few films from week two! Tonight, we’ve got our last shows of 90’s post-apocalyptic oddity Tank Girl and Stuart Gordons Lovecraftian nightmare From Beyond.
Repmageddon: Week 3
The third week of Repmageddon starts Friday, and we’ve got another killer line-up of repertory titles.
We’ll kick off the week with 80’s buddy-cop classic Lethal Weapon. Unlike the increasingly sugar-coated sequels, the original is a pitch-black action comedy with surprising emotional heft. If you’ve written this one off, it’s definitely worth checking out.
In the horror slot this week, we’ve got Jennifer’s Body. Though severely mis-marketed on release, the film has since built a reputation as a low-key feminist classic. Writer Diablo Cody and director Karyn Kusama clearly had a lot on their mind when crafting the film, and its thematic heft has only increased with time.
We’ll continue exploring just how wide the world of science fiction is with A Clockwork Orange. It was released to much controversy in 1971, but unlike so many other classics, that controversy never fully resolved. 50 years later, Kubrick’s dystopic vision still resists easy answers, and blurs the lines of what satire can be.
Lam Ngai Kai always made good use of practical effects, but The Peacock King is a showstopper. It’s packed with animatronics, stop-motion, optical effects, and an endless series of incredible sets, including a final, standout, descent into hell. If you’re a Cinema City regular, the Wednesday night show will be the proper CC show, with intro, announcements, and the like.
It’s only fitting that a Nic Cage retrospective that began with Leaving Las Vegas includes Con Air, the film that cemented his transition from Oscar Winner to blockbuster action star. Con Air is an exercise in what a great cast can do when you give them a fun (and kind of silly) script, and set them loose to chew the scenery.
Somewhere between Spaghetti westerns, film noir, and the work of John Ford you’ll find The Man Called Noon, an underseen film about an amnesiac gunfighter who must piece together his own history, while fighting off the men responsible for his loss.
After the apocalypse…
We’ve started piecing together the weeks following Repmageddon, so keep an eye on our coming soon page. Tickets just went on sale for a Paracinema presentation of Sam Raimi’s Darkman, and there’s plenty more to come.
