FROM THE STREETS OF GOTHAM TO MEGA CITY ONE: ON THE BIG SCREEN THIS WEEKEND

Whether it’s the 1989 outing of the Caped Crusader, oddball late night Hong Kong horror or a rowdy midnight audience participation showing of Shrek, we’ve got you covered with our picks of the classics on the big screen this weekend.

Fri 5/20th 7:30pm: HorrorBuzz returns with PHANTASM (1979), Don Coscarelli's surreal magnum opus, a staple of 70s horror cinema as delightfully weird as it is chilling. Be sure to arrive early for a special preshow before the film! Screening at The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana. More info HERE.

Fri 5/20th & Sat 5/21st 10pm: Tim Burton gave birth to what would become the modern superhero genre with his blockbuster smash, BATMAN (1989), complete with the legendary soundtrack by Prince and score by Danny Elfman. Screening at The Loft Cinema, Arizona. More info HERE.

Fri 5/20th & Sat 5/21st 8pm: Catch DETROIT WEEKEND at The Redford Theatre in (where else) Detroit with Eddie Murphy as a Detroit cop following a lead to the West Coast in BEVERLY HILLS COP (1984) on Friday and the future of law enforcement in the darkly satirical ROBOCOP (1987) on Saturday night. More info HERE.

Fri 5/20th & Sat 5/21st Midnight: The anti-fairy tale fave that forced that Smash Mouth song into our collective memory forever. Catch a midnight showing of SHREK (2001) at The Music Box Theatre, Chicago, Rocky Horror style with singalongs, costumes and audience call backs led by the team at MIDNIGHT MADNESS. More info HERE.

Fri 5/20th 10pm: Denis Villeneuve directs and Jake Gyllenhall stars as a mild-mannered professor, who crosses paths with his doppelganger. Also big spiders. ENEMY (2013) screens at Braindead Studios, Los Angeles. More info HERE.

Fri 5/20th Midnight: The queasier bizarro version of Miami Vice, in which a pervasive mood of cultic paranoia is punctuated by instances of perplexing humor and synth-ballad breaks. BLOOD RITUAL (1989) screens at Spectacle Theatre, Brooklyn NY. More info HERE.

Sat 5/21st 1:30pm: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and Rosie Perez, star in WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP (1992), a slam dunk, high-flying comedy classic. Screening in 35mm for it's 30th Anniversary at The American Cinematheque at The Los Feliz. More info HERE.

Sat 5/21st Midnight: Criminally underrated and cursed with a terrible marketing c campaign that made it a box office failure, DREDD (2012) has gone on to become a quintessential modern action gem with incredible production and sound design, stunning g ultra slow mo cinematography and complete adherence to the titular characters comic boo roots. Stunning. Screening at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, Massachusetts. More info HERE.

All Weekend: Celebrate the extensive, groundbreaking work of James Wong Howe, a Chinese immigrant who came of age within Hollywood, serving as one of the industry’s major stylistic and technical innovators behind the camera from the early 1920s to the mid 1970s. HOW IT’S DONE: THE CINEMA OF JAMES WONG HOWE at The Museum Of The Moving Image, New York City. More info HERE.

Sat 5/21st 7pm: A brand new restoration of this 1980 cult classic, with director Brian Trenchard-Smith and star Margaret Trenchard-Smith in attendance plus Q&A. STUNT ROCK (1980) screens at The Hollywood Theatre, Portland. More info HERE.

Sat 5/21st 7:30pm: Stanley Kramer’s cinema of social consciousness turns its focus to the causes and effects of fascism. JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961 / 35mm Print) screens at The Dryden Theatre, Rochester NY. More info HERE.

All Weekend: A ruthless oil tycoon (Daniel Day-Lewis) is locked in a war of will, morals & motives with a preacher (Paul Dano) told through phenomenal performances, cinematography and score. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007 / 35mm Print) screens at The New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles. More info HERE.

Sat 5/22nd 6pm: The entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison, and only one man can break in and rescue the President after Air Force One goes down into the once bustling metropolis. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) at The Prince Charles Cinema, London. More info HERE.

Sat 5/21st 10:15pm: Wands at the ready for the final three movies of the series, with the kid wizards now all grown up and in a life or death battle against the evil foreces of Voldemort in a HARRY POTTER ALL NIGHTER screening at The French Cinematheque, Paris. More info HERE.

All Weekend: A roughneck drops his Soho sex-shop job to roadie for The Clash seen in this film at the dizzying peak of their powers. Seldom seen in the U.S. in its original length, this legendary punk film is presented with a brand-new, uncut, digital restoration! RUDE BOY (1980) screens at The Brattle Theatre, Massachusetts. More info HERE.

Sun 5/22nd 4pm & 7pm: A special screening to raise funds for The Lilith Fund that helps with abortion access in draconian Texas. DIRTY DANCING (1987) is set in 1963, out features a scene showing what abortion access was like before Row V Wade, a scene Screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein said was her sole purpose for wanting to make the film. Screening The Clinton Street Theatre, Portland. More info HERE.

Sun 5/22nd 3:15pm: One of cinema’s great nightmares, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s VAMPYR (1932) lingers 90 years on through a combination of chilling imagery, ominous sound and stunning filmmaking technique.Screens at Picturehouse at Duke Of York's, UK. More info HERE.

Sun 5/22nd 6:30pm: David Cronenberg’s CRASH (1996) is a concert of flesh and steel, a cautionary tale of machine age eroticism that doubles as an enticing invitation. Screening at The Roxie Cinema, San Francisco. More info HERE.

Sun 5/22nd 9pm: William Friedkin directs SORCERER (1977), considered among his favorite works, and the most difficult of his career, dismissed at the time of release, but now lauded as a critical masterpiece. Score by Tangerine Dream. Screens at The Prince Charles Cinema, London. More info HERE.

Sun 5/22nd 7pm: Douglas Sirk’s most flamboyant master classes in melodrama, a delirious Technicolor mix of the sudsy and the spiritual, starring Rock Hudson. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954 / 35mm Print) screens at The Belcourt Theatre, Nashville. More info HERE.

Sun 5/22nd 7:15pm: After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa in David Cronenberg's NAKED LUNCH (1991 / 35mm Print) screening at The Roxie Cinema, New York City. More info HERE.