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Upcoming Movies
The Late Night Film Series shows FREE movies to UK students every Thursday‚ and Friday in the Student Center!
Hello faithful film fans‚ The Late Night Film Series will be taking the summer off‚ but don’t fear‚ we’re busy planning out what will probably be our best year of films to date. So keep an eye out this August for date‚ times‚ and titles. We’ll see you there.
History of the World: Part I
Mel Brooks (BLAZING SADDLES) is back with another giant comedy. From crazy singing cavemen through Comicus (Mel Brooks) performing for a lustful Emperor Nero (Dom Deluise) at Caesar’s Palace‚ to a musical comedy interpretation of the Spanish Inquisition‚ this is the biggest boldest‚ funniest Mel Brooks movie ever. Spanning more than twenty centuries‚ HISTORY OF THE WORLD-PART I proves that even in civilization’s darkest moments there was something to laugh about.
Rated R; 93 minutes; © 1981, 20th Century Fox
Mel Brooks‚ Dom Deluise‚ Madeline Kahn‚ Harvey Korman
Be Kind Rewind
When Jerry becomes magnetized due to an accident at the local power plant‚ he accidentally erases all of the video tapes at the store where his friend works. The pair re-enact and re-film every film in the store from The Lion King to Ghostbusters to Back to the Future in this raucous comedy.
Rated PG-13; 101 minutes; © 2008, New Line Cinema
Jack Black‚ Danny Glover‚ Mos Def
Mallrats
Shannen Doherty makes her return to the big screen in this hilarious comedy that marks the second installment in writer/director Kevin Smith’s trilogy‚ picking up where his award-winning CLERKS left off. Also on hand is skateboard champion Jason Lee and Marvel Comic creator Stan Lee for this comical spin on life as a "mallrat."
Rated R; 97 minutes; © 1995, Universal Pictures
Shannen Doherty‚ Jason Lee‚ Jeremy London
Enter the Dragon
Martial arts expert (Bruce Lee) infiltrates an opulent island at the request of British agents to uncover evidence of opium smuggling and prostitution. One of the last films of Kung Fu superstar Bruce Lee’s career‚ Enter The Dragon was cited by the critics as the masterpiece of Asian martial arts filmmaking.
Rated R; 98 minutes; © 1973, Warner Bros.
Bruce Lee‚ John Saxon
Juno
JUNO stars Ellen Page as the title character‚ a whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker (Cera). With the help of her hot best friend Leah‚ Juno finds her unborn child a perfect set of parents: an affluent suburban couple‚ Mark and Venessa (Bateman and Garner)‚ longing to adopt.
Rated PG-13; 95 minutes; © 2007, 20th Century Fox
Ellen Page‚ Michael Cera‚ Jennifer Garner‚ Jason Bateman‚ J.K. Simmons‚ Allison Janney and Rainn Wilson
TRON
Enter a dazzling world never seen before for an adventure you will never forget. Using state-of-the-art computer generated animation combined with live action‚ TRON takes you inside the world of the computer‚ where you’ll join Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) as he battles the evil Master Control Program in order to escape from the computer world. A milestone in optical and light effects.
Rated PG; 96 minutes; © 1982, Walt Disney Pictures
Jeff Bridges‚ Bruce Boxleitner
There Will Be Blood
Daniel Plainview is a turn of the century prospector in Texas who has success in oil. He gets a tip about an abundance of oil in a rural area and picks it up for a steal by misleading the owning family. Daniel is a true sociopath who attempts to crush anyone who will stand in his way in this extreme character study.
Rated R; 158 minutes; © 2008, Paramount Pictures
Daniel Day-Lewis‚ Paul Dano‚ Kevin J O’Connor
Robocop
It’s action‚ action‚ and more action in this blocxxkbuster hit from director Paul Verhoeven. Peter Weller stars as ROBOCOP‚ part man‚ part machine who’s programmed to stop at nothing to bring law and order to the crime-infested streets of Detroit.
Rated R; 103 minutes; © 1987, Orion Pictures
Peter Weller‚ Nancy Allen‚ Ronny Cox‚ Miguel Ferrer
Friday
Two homies‚ Smokey & Craig‚ smoke up a dope dealer’s weed and try to figure a way to get the $200 they owe the dope dealer by 10:00pm that night. In that time they smoke weed‚ get jacked‚ and they get shot at in a drive-by.
Rated R; 91 minutes; © 1995, New Line Cinema
Ice Cube‚ Chris Tucker‚ Nia Long‚ John Witherspoon
Ghost World
Ultrahip and cynical best friends Enid (Thora Birch) and Becky (Scarlett Johansson) face an uncertain future after graduating from high school. Their seemingly endless list of possibilities for life together after high school shrinks alarmingly as Becky takes a job at a coffeehouse and Enid heads to college to become an art student in this quirky drama based on the comic book by Daniel Clowes.
Rated R; 111 minutes; © 2001, MGM/UA
Thora Birch‚ Scarlett Johansson‚ Brad Renfro‚ Steve Buscemi
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