Rude Boy
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Merging documentary and fiction, Jack Hazan and David Mingay’s Rude Boy follows roughneck Ray Gange as he drops his Soho sex-shop job to roadie for The Clash—the most fiery, revolutionary rock ’n’ roll band of the era, seen in this film at the dizzying peak of their powers. Set against a background of riots, anti-racist demos, and police hostility towards Black British youth, this unforgettable, absorbing film portraits a UK on the brink of Thatcherism, and a moment when subcultural shock troops met those of a rising right wing in the streets.
Project: ALF
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After his series ended, our lovable extraterrestrial, ALF, is found living in captivity at Edmonds Air Force Base where the Allen Task Force has him under lock and key. It's commanding office, General Milfoil (Martin Sheen) is sick and tired of babysitting and plans on eliminating ALF under the guise of "a beauty treatment." When two Air Force scientists catch wind of this, they help ALF escape, hiding him at a cheap motel, not far from the Kitty Kat Lounge, a strip club. Of course, Alf assumes it's a restaurant that serves cats, and, well, you can guess what happens next.
Big Bad Mama
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When Wilma (Angie Dickinson) finds there is no money to be made in bootlegging, a chance meeting with bank robber Fred Diller (Tom Skerritt) leads to a new career. Along with her daughters, Wilma joins Fred on his next big heist. After meeting slick gambler William J. Baxter (William Shatner), Wilma recruits him and the rest of her gang to kidnap a millionaire's daughter in the hopes of collecting a big pay day.
Big Time Gambling Boss
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An atmospheric tale of gangland intrigue written by Kazuo Kasahara (Battles Without Honour and Humanity) and starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, (Lone Wolf and Cub, The Bounty Hunter Trilogy) and genre legend Koji Tsuruta, Big Time Gambling Boss is one of the all-time classics of the yakuza genre. Paul Schrader called it the richest and most complex film of its type, while novelist Yukio Mishima hailed it as a masterpiece.
Little Sister
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October, 2008. Young nun Colleen (Addison Timlin) is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother (Ally Sheedy) announces, Your brother is home. On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but unease and awkwardness abounds. Her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war. During Colleen's visit, tensions rise and fall with a little help from Halloween, pot cupcakes, and GWAR. Little Sister is a sad comedy about family, a schmaltz-free, pathos-drenched, feel-good movie for the little goth girl inside us all.
Darker Than Night
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A young woman named Ofelia inherits a creepy old house from her Aunt Susana with the stipulation she is to care for the aunt's beloved pet, which so happens to be a black cat. Not wanting to live there alone, Ofelia invites three of her friends, Aurora, Marta & Pilar to move into the house with her. Soon after the girls are settled in, they find the cat dead. This grim discovery is soon followed by more and more strange and terrible occurrences. And as the bloody plot unfolds, Ofelia finds that her friends are being picked off, one by one, by some supernatural force exacting its revenge.
Knocking
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After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly (Cecilia Milocco) moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night. Molly’s new life begins to unravel as the screams intensify and no one else in the building believes or is willing to help her.
Streetwalkin'
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Academy Award®–winning actress Melissa Leo (The Fighter) stars as Cookie, a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple along with her younger brother. When she arrives at the Port Authority bus terminal, Cookie meets a charming but sadistic pimp named Duke (Dale Midkiff, Pet Sematary). With nowhere to go, Cookie is soon working for Duke, who introduces her to the harsh, brutal life of a prostitute. A harrowing, fast-paced ride through the lurid streets of New York's terrifying underbelly.
When The Wind Blows
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“There have been enough post-holocaust nuclear winter films to constitute a genre” says Time Out, “but there has never been anything quite like this.” When the Wind Blows is Director Jimmy T. Murakami's animated classic about an elderly couple – voiced by Academy Award® winners Sir John Mills and Dame Peggy Ashcroft – attempting to survive the aftermath of a nuclear war. Featuring an original score by Roger Waters with title song by David Bowie
Bruce And The Iron Finger
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Bruce Li stars in this "classic old-school flick" (City On Fire) that combines explosive Bruceploitation action with a sleazy '70s crime thriller: A tough Singapore police detective (Li) teams with a Hong Kong martial arts instructor (Bruce Liang of THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN) to investigates a bizarre series of murders by a kung fu killer who strikes with iron fingers.
It Came From Aquarius Records
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It Came from Aquarius Records explores the San Francisco-based independent record shop that helped shape the tastes of Bay Area residents and beyond for nearly a half a century. The store influenced and enriched countless peoples' musical tastes with their curated selections -- but this film also shows the realities of an indie record store trying to survive in an increasingly difficult market of brick-and-mortar music shops, especially in the ever-changing and price-gouging Mission District of San Francisco. The store closed in 2016 after 47 years of championing underground and experimental sounds and turning the world onto sound and music of limitless varieties. Interviews include Matt Groening (The Simpsons), Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips), John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats), Marissa Nadler, Ty Segall, and more.

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