VHS* SALE $2 all month long!

*If you are too young to know what VHS is, it's a black plastic thingy with tape in it. It's about an inch in height, 5 inches in length and 3 inches in width. you put it into a VHS player. You are going to want to look at the tape to make sure the tape inside it was re-wound so that you can watch the movie from the beginning. If the tape is all the way wound to the left, it's at the beginning. You may have to rewind it, using the reverse function on the Video Home System Cassette player. 

The tape inside the Video Home System Cassette is magnetized. and there are crystals in the Video Home System cassette player that read the information on the tape, if you break the crystals in the VHS Player it will leak out black sparkly goop; that is concentrated evil, if you touch it your evil twin will appear and try to kill you and take over your life, you have to find a mirror, and  show it itself, if you do not do this quickly your evil twin will also open a portal and let in all the evil twins in the evil world and you are going to feel really bad and have no friends.

So, Video Home System Cassette are really quite magical when you think about it. But don't think about it it too much. In fact, stop thinking about it, you're too young to bother with analog recordings. go listen to your IPOD and explain how that works.

UPCOMING NEW RELEASES!

AUGUST 30th
IN A BETTER WORLD (winner Best Foreign Language Film 2010)

SEPTEMBER 6th
EVERYTHING MUST GO (Will Ferrell.. Funny, but different funny…)
HANNA (A knockout of a film. Revenge, little blonde girl with arrows.. Awesome)
THE OFFICE SEASON 7 (you watch this, yes?)
PARKS AND RECREATION SEASON 3 (are you watching this?)
VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE (docu)

OPENING CREDITS

"Films are like symphonies, and opening credits,
the first notes sounded."*
The following clips are taken from movies
whose intro's spelled out D-Y-N-A-M-I-T-E,
tempting us with the promise of glorious
uncharted terrain, adventure, discovery,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony...

*not an actual quote

N.I.N.Y. -- Roller Boogie

It's love on wheels!


During my last visit back to SF, I walked by the Roxie and saw they were showing Roller Boogie, the 1979 Linda Blair skating movie. Somehow I got around to renting it back in New York, and I am glad I did.


Roller Boogie is about a group of skating toughs, (the ghetto, down and out, cool kids of course), who have to save their local roller rink from the clutches of a corrupt developer. Among these cool teenagers, is Terry Barkley, the only rich girl of the group, who likes to slum it with her misfit skating buddies. Also, there's a romance between rich girl Terry and talented but poor bad boy, Bobby James. 


There's a hurricane approaching now, so I'll just let this clip tell you the rest, whatever I missed. I'm not sure if Fayes has Roller Boogie on DVD.

NEW RELEASES August 23rd!

THE BEAVER (Drama with Mel Gibson. Groundhog day meets Mad Max)
THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD (Morgan 'super size me' Spurlock film)
WIN WIN (from the director of  "The Visitor" starring Paul Giamatti) 

 

QUICKSILVER

Kevin Bacon + fixies + awesome '80s soundtrack = this week's SBIG (So Bad It's Good) Pick!

This gem from 1986 is set in SF (though shot in LA as well, strangely) and stars Bacon as a failed Wall Street (?) trader who gets a job working for a bike messenger company (styled after the taxi dispatch company in the TV show Taxi?). 

In 2008, Kevin Bacon called the film "the absolute lowest point of my career." Don't be so hard on yourself, Kevin! It's totally thrilling to watch him speed around SF and Downtown Los Angeles, bombing the hill below Coit Tower with Lawrence Fishbourne, and talking with his inexplicably New York-accented bike messenger friends. And don't miss the very special bicycle dance sequence above.

Also starring Jami Gertz as the streetsmart tomboy bike messenger who Bacon rescues from a gangbanger and seduces. You may recognize her as Keifer Sutherland's girlfriend in The Lost Boys. 

Roger Daltrey's theme song "Quicksilver Lightning" is icing on the cake. Watch it today!

NEW RELEASES August 16th!

The Conspirator

James McAvoy is a sexy bearded lawyer hunting for the truth during the Lincoln assassination trial!

Priest

 Paul Bettany is a sexy vampire-hunting priest!

Dexter: Season 5

 Michael C. Hall is still a serial killer-hunting serial killer! 

Jane Eyre (2011)
"From a loveless past she sought refuge and found a place haunted by sexy secrets..."

Herzog

 "Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs."

NEW RELEASES August 9th!

MARS NEEDS MOMS (Disney adventure, like a Sci-Fi Polar Express)

PAUL (Comedy/Sci-Fi with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen)

SUPER (Stars Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page and Live Tyler… super hero fun)

YOUR HIGHNESS (From the Directors of Pineapple Express…)

P.S., Natalie wears a thong.

RHINESTONE

Best worst movie of all time? Two words: Stallone Sings. Amazing.

 Dolly Parton wrote most of the songs and gives an awesome performance. Also, being the early 1980s, the wigs and sparkles are in FULL EFFECT.

HOUSEBOY

OK
If you don't
remember this or
any other part of
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe"
'cause you never did
watch it or
more appropriately
where too drunk
to remember or
are just goddamn
forgetful...
it is time to be
blind-sided by or
more likely try
to drown out
or be forced to
re-live the wonderful
disaster that is
George and
Martha
OK?

New Releases for August 2!

Eastbound & Down: Season 2
Produced by Will Ferrell.
(Also the theme song for Smokey and the Bandit.)

Rio
Rated PG for mild off color humor and anthropomorphized tropical animals.
With Jesse Eisenberg in cartoon bird form.

Soul Surfer
Based on the story of Bethany Hamilton who lost her left arm in a shark attack while surfing in Kauai.
Rated PG for an intense accident sequence and some thematic material (Spoiler alert: her arm gets bitten off by a shark)