Hello! Join me THIS SUNDAY, October 25th at 6pm for October’s edition of Kinoplex! We got Siamese Brain taking over with a shorts showcase they curated, followed by a Q&A with the participating filmmakers, and then a screening of Freaked (1993).

Update!

For anyone reading this or who’s been coming out to the bar on Sundays, I wanted to share a little update: for the time being, I’ll no longer be hosting weekly screenings at Churchill’s! I’ve decided to scale things back to once a month.

I still really enjoy doing this, and I love working with all the wonderful people who regularly come through, help out, and make these nights happen. Ultimately, it just comes down to scheduling and figuring out what works best. That said, if I can squeeze in more movie nights throughout the month, I absolutely will!

After this Sunday, October 25th, the next screening will be November 22nd. Stay tuned for more details, and thanks to everyone who continues to come out and watch movies with us!

TOMORROW: We’re celebrating 1 year of showing movies at Churchill’s with a DUDES DONE WRONG banger selected by Brother Ryan himself — Rolling Thunder, in which a man survives one war, comes home, and is immediately handed another. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to mark a great year of great movies. Thank you to all who have ever shown up, and especially to all who have ever guest hosted (except maybe 2 of you). Oh, and there will be a raffle to win a $100 bar tab (at Churchill’s Pub) —  winners announced AFTER the movie :))

See you there!

Alright so after a little moving around, we got Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss this Friday night, 9/18, in the green room (selected by the brilliant Osiel Gonzalez) and then on Sunday, 9/20, we have anarchic dreamer Leos Carax’s Mauvais Sang, chosen by one of my favorite Miami people, Alex Mizo of with books. While Alex does do God’s work by slanging rare books at a very generous price, he won’t be bringing his supply this Sunday. Let him have the night off! But I encourage you to buy him a drink for all of his service.

September 27: Dudes Done Wrong/Kinoplex 1 year anniversary

Brother Ryan has selected Rolling Thunder as the second edition of the Dudes Done Wrong x Kinoplex series. This day will also mark the one year anniversary of me playing movies at Churchill’s (aka THE KINOPLEX). This will certainly be a special evening. More details to come soon (fabulous prizes to be won)!

Hi all! Just a quick note that September calendar has been updated!! No movie night tomorrow (Sunday, September 13). I had to reschedule that screening to next Friday, September 18th (weekend of kino, baby). See updated THIS MONTH page. Will post details for upcoming screenings soon!

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of Churchill’s re-opening, and they asked me to play a something early. I chose Repo Man. Come by for a matinee screening (1pm)! Also, new calendar is now up on the THIS MONTH page!

Tomorrow, August 30th at 9 PM, we’ll be screening another Australian banger, the legendary Brian Trenchard-Smith’s 1986 Dead End Drive-In—a film about young outcasts trapped in a drive-in theater turned detention camp and one guy’s plan to escape it.

We have a very special host for this night: Dream Arcade, a live late night broadcast featuring some of the best clips happening in the dream world, courtesy of DreamLink Mobile, the only app for multidreaming together, baby…

Jamon, jamon at Jamoteca on Sept 3rd

Next Thursday, September 3rd, I’ll be screening Jamon jamon (1992, dir. Bigas Luna) at 7pm for Jamoteca, a one night only evening at Churchill’s where there will be people playing music and you can get a plate of melon, cheese and freshly sliced, free range, acorn-fed Iberico ham for $10 (entrance is free, ham is not). The ham leg cost $1200 (I know because I’m the one that bought it). More info and RSVP here.

Call for submissions!

On Sunday, October 25, Kinoplex is partnering with Siamese Brain for a short film showcase (followed by a screening of Peter Jackson’s Braindead). Siamese Brain Festival is a free festival for South Florida filmmakers & artists to showcase their work and network. Please submit short films only. Work across all genres will be considered but there will be a focus on weird, horror and experimental. Submissions are free, and the forms can be found HERE (there’s also a form if you’d like to be an artist vendor as well).

Thank you, Brother Ryan

A big thank you to my boy Ryan for kicking off the Dudes Done Wrong series with his sick introduction of Stone last week. It absolutely fucked and if you missed it, you can watch it here. Catch us next month, Sunday, September 27th for John Flynn’s Rolling Thunder.

This Sunday, August 23rd, it’s happening. The first screening in Kinoplex’s monthly DUDES DONE WRONG series in partnership with Ryan Starsailor occurs. Come join us at 9pm for Stone (1974), a film about an undercover cop who rides with a motorcycle gang to find out who’s murdering them, and gets shredded raw by the very world he was sent to watch.

Brother Ryan will open us up with an introduction before playing the movie. After that, you’re on your own. The Gravediggers won’t save you, and neither will we.

Thank you Michael and Jimmy!

Special thanks to Michael and Jimmy for guest hosting last Sunday’s screening of American Movie and saying a few words before it started. It was great watching it again, and even better seeing friends catch it for the first time. It can be a pain in the ass to sit through an outdoor screening while a band plays inside the main bar, so I appreciate them being as lax and kind about it (as always). Shout out to the metal kids coming for the show who stuck around outside out of curiosity to see what was playing. I hope they had a good time.

We are back! This Sunday, August 16 at 9pm, we will be showing American Movie, Chris Smith’s 1999 documentary that follows Mark Borchardt, a broke, relentless Wisconsin filmmaker chasing his horror short Coven through basement flooding, family chaos, and sheer will. Mark’s best friend Mike Schank kind of steals every scene he’s in, and the film’s mix of secondhand embarrassment and genuine affection for its subjects has made it one of my favorite documentaries for a reason.

Hosted by Michael and Jimmy. They are two of my favorite people I’ve met through showing movies at Churchill’s. Meeting people like them makes this Godforsaken weekly endeavor feel worth it. Always happy to have them back, and of course they chose pure kino.

73 (or, see you soon)!

Hi! Just a note to say that there will be no movie night on August 9th. We will return on August 16th with one of my favorite documentaries, American Movie.

 

But first, I’d like to announce…

 

Starting this month, Dudes Done Wrong becomes a recurring series at The Kinoplex. Once a month, my friend Ryan Starsailor—one of my closest friends, original creator of this website’s template, as well as the fucking sick video above —will curate, select, and introduce a film centered around one simple criterion: a Dude who has been unequivocally Done Wrong. As for the series itself, I’ll let Ryan introduce it in his own words:

THE KINOPLEX and RYAN STARSAILOR Present . . . DUDES DONE WRONG, a hallowed place to gather in darkness and bear witness to the only real truth, which is mighty tragedy. Once a month, Brother Ryan will select a film in which a Dude, be they man or woman, is unequivocally Done Wrong . . . battered, maimed, defeated, betrayed, forgotten, left for dead, sometimes all of the above. And yet, upon emerging from the smoldering crater of their own would-be annihilation, a Dude of this stripe will inevitably gaze upon a world that now feels alien to them and wonder aloud: “Is that all you got for me?” As for what happens next, there’s only one way to find out . . . BE THERE. Join us at Churchill’s at 9 p.m. sharp in observance of the perseverance of the human soul in the shadow of great despair. Viewings will begin with or without you. My soul is prepared. How’s yours?

You can read more about the history of Dudes Done Wrong here. God, I fucking love my friends. More to come.

Thank you, Manny R.!

Many thanks to my good friend Manny for being such a gracious host and for bringing Dr. Strangelove to The Kinoplex. Next time you see him at Churchill’s, say hello and buy him a beer!

OK! July movie nights are a wrap! On to August — and we’re kicking it off with Dr. Strangelove, chosen by one of my dearest friends in Miami, Manny R. He’s a hoot, so feel free to come by and say hello! The screening will be held inside the main bar.

Also: I know we’re not officially into August, but you can find the calendar for August on the THIS MONTH page. This is one of my favorite lineups ever!!!

One (wo)man’s trash…

Last night I brought a god-awful piece of art I’d received as a gift (and grudgingly kept on my wall) to the bar, slapped a “Free” sign on it, and left it by the vape vending machine. It’s so fugly and cursed that I didn’t expect anyone to take it — I figured I’d still see it sitting there at the end of the night. But only thirty minutes later, it was gone! To whoever took it: thank you. I truly hope it brings you more joy than it brought me.