Recent Results tagged “movienight”
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Daily-ist Thursday: River Oaks Theater 70th Anniversary Celebration
Unlike the West Alabama Theater, the River Oaks Theater has managed to thwart the plans of greedy developers in recent years thanks in part to your support. Tonight the Houston landmark will celebrate it's 70th Anniversary with a special showing of Frank Capra's 1939 classic film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring Jimmy Stewart. The opening reception begins at 6:00 with cake and drink specials in the upstairs lounge. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington...
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Daily-ist: Monday
::Free Movie Night at Domy Books:: TV as it was meant to be seen; in a movie theatre. At the height of his popularity, it seemed like a good idea for “Weird” Al Yankovic to release a movie parody in the vein of his music video parodies. Unfortunately it wasn’t. As time would tell and video would prove it was nowhere near as bad as critics said it was and “UHF” is actually a fun,...
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Daily-ist: Tuesday
:: Free Movie Nite at the Mink :: For the last few weeks, the Mink has been hosting a free movie night in conjunction with the Houston Press' music blog, Rocks Off. Past weeks have brought the greatness of Back to the Future, Batman, and Stand By Me, complete with free catered hot dawgs from recent wiener sensation, Ray's Franks. Tonight's movie brings one of Houstonist's cult favorites, Fight Club. Did Norton even do...
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Flick: Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the first of the major summer blockbusters, opened this morning to sold out theaters filled with generations of nerds and a few of their friends. Lest ye be confused, Revenge of the Fallen is a popcorn movie. On this premise, it delivers. Machinery morphs from robot to equipment and back again. Explosions happen about once every three minutes. Make-outs are frequent enough. And, comedy abounds - mostly on purpose....
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Daily-ist Thursday: Jacuzzi Movies At The CAMH
Thursdays this summer the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston will show free screenings of the film Touched by Water, an exploration into bathing rituals from different cultures around the globe. Curated by Andrea Grover, founder of Aurora Picture Show, the Jacuzzi Movies series will provide jacuzzi seating for the first lucky few who call 713-284-8257 to make reservations. Looks like the CAMH is making good on the promise to create more interactive experiences, though there's...
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Daily-ist Tuesday: Girls Girls Girls
For the second night in a row, Domy Books plays host to an interesting night of film. Tonight's screening is hosted by Cinema Bomar, the Houston-based collectors of vintage 16mm film reels. Tonight show, "Girls Girls Girls", features a collection of 15 musical shorts from the '20s, '30s and '40s on the topic of womanhood. Reels include a vintage compilation of burlesque performances to Hula-Hula Mexican, in which a "hula girl swaps her skirt...
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Daily-ist: Monday
:: Movie Night @ DOMY :: Scanners (1981) Runtime: 103 min 10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can't Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode. Sounds interesting for a 103 minute movie. Wonder what happens for the other 83 minutes? David Cronenberg once again delivers, to us, a tale of psychological terror manifesting itself in the physical realm. Infamous for the exploding head scene, Scanners is one of Cronenberg's best. Psychic minds collide in a...
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Dailyist: Monday
::Project Row Houses Movie Night: George Washington:: Project Row Houses and Galeria Perdida present a Monday night movie held in conjunction with the temporary gallery space para/site. Tonight's movie: George Washington, a film by David Gordon Green. Four youngsters who are coming of age in rural North Carolina share a slow and regretful summer. Nasia (Candace Evanofski) leaves her boyfriend, Buddy (Curtis Cotton III), for George (Donald Holden). But when Buddy runs away, Nasia...
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Daily-ist: Monday
If you're anything like Houstonist, you can easily waste two hours of your life on the trailer show on HDNet, watching trailers from movies past and present and exclaiming to no one in particular, "Oh, The Departed. That was a really good movie!" You know the trailer show... Don't look at us like that. Instead of commenting on the trailers to your cat or your annoyed spouse, you should head down to Domy Books tonight,...
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Daily-ist: Monday
Star Wars Holiday Special (also featuring the MST3K guys) Okay Star Wars nerds, do you know the names of Chewbacca's family members?* No? Not as big a fan of the series as you thought, huh. Pay no mind, because you can meet the Wookiee's clan and more at Domy Books Monday Movie Night tonight during a screening of the Star Wars Holiday Special. This 1978 made-for-TV episode in the Star Wars saga featured the original...
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More Hamilton Fun: Orange Show Drive-In Night
We who bring you Fun For A Hamilton tell you to email us things we miss, and today, someone actually did. And we're glad, because in all our perusal of Houston's arts scene, we'd somehow missed this one. Thanks are due to fellow blogger Greg. The Orange Show is one of Houston's strangest and most endearing art institutions. A folk-art/achitecture environment created from 1956-1979 by the late Jefferson Davis McKissack, a Houston postal worker, the...
