
The Water-Funker (1912)
Bobby Slayton: Born to Be Bobby (2010)
Comedy veteran Bobby Slayton pulls out all the stops for this hourlong comedy special that finds him riffing on the differences between men and women, the general hotness of Victoria’s…
Harold and Maude (1971)
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named…
Invasion of the Space Preachers (1990)
A pair of dweebs are trying to vacation in the woods when they discover a crashed spaceship. They help the injured alien, who turns into a beautiful woman the next…
Barry Crimmins: Whatever Threatens You (2016)
Following from Bobcat Goldthwait’s revelatory documentary, Call Me Lucky, Barry Crimmins’ friend Louis CK produced and directed Whatever Threatens You, his first comedy special, at the Lawrence Arts Center in…
Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger (2008)
An HBO special edited from three performances from Chris Rock’s 2008 comedy tour: London (dark suit, dark shirt), Johannesburg (black suit, white shirt) and New York (shiny jacket). Topics include…
Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)
Wong Fei-Hung faces the White Lotus Society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also…
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in…
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist,…
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.