saki After Hours: Predictive Gaming this Friday!

Predictive Gaming for Substandard Films is an evening of entertainment that incorporates game show elements into a screening of a "so-bad-it's-good" style movie. Halfway between Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Scene It!, Predictive Gaming invites movie fans to place bets on the plot of a campy B-movie throughout the screening in hopes to take home fabulous prizes - like Schubas, Lincoln Hall & Metro guest list spots & saki gift certificates! So as to prevent precocious predictors from premeditating their prizewinning, the film being screened will not be announced in advance, but bad movie fans (and game show enthusiasts) must trust that saki has dug up a real winner!

Predictive Gaming for Substandard Films, the bad movie game show, is Friday, February 17th at 8pm, at saki.

RSVP on the book of faces if you wanna be all social media about it... As with all our events, Predictive Gaming is FREE & BYOB if you've got your ID. And yes, there WILL be popcorn.

Nicolas Cage Freak Outs

For some reason, I cannot watch this enough. Actually, I know the reason. It's completely mesmerizing. Even if you've seen it before, it's worth another four minutes of your life. Just don't watch it while drinking your morning OJ.

Nov. 17th: All My Singers are Funeral Friends

Come watch Califone's "All My Friends are Funeral Singers," in fullness and completeness on Wednesday November 17th for Free. Why not enjoy some Free popcorn while you are at it?

The show is scheduled to start at 6 PM, and promises to be quite enjoyable.

Synopsis (from IMDB):

Zel is a fortune teller. She lives and works in an old house at the edge of the woods. The house is crowded with ghosts (including a priest, a bride, a mute child, some washed up vaudevillians and a noisy, sight-impaired group of musicians among others) that have been there for as long as she can remember. When a mysterious light appears in the woods the ghosts realize that they are trapped and begin to rebel. Zel is forced to come to terms with the origins of these spirits and letting go of the only family she has ever known.

Music Box Sci-Fi Spectacular

Tomorrow, Saturday April 10 ALL DAY!
Pay once and come and go as you please. Scheduled chronologically for your convenience.

Them! (Gordon Douglas 1954)
Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava 1965)
Dark Star (John Carpenter 1974)
Flash Gordon (hooray 80's!) (Mike Hodges 1980)
Q: The Winged Serpent (Larry Cohen 1982)
Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper 1985)
They Live (John Carpenter 1988)

Died Young, Stayed Pretty

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Captivating artifact of an era. — Ward Sutton, Village Voice

A new movie by young and engaging filmmaker Eileen Yaghoobian about the underground poster culture in North America. If you've ever ripped an awesome poster off the wall of your favorite rock dump and guarded it with your life until you could safely deposit it back at your apartment, then this movie is for you.

Bonus CTR points for music by the talented Mark Greenberg of The Coctails.



Wednesday September 30, 7:20pm with an appearance by the director—and probably Mark.


Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport
773-871-6604
More details are finally up and they gave the flic its own page on the MB site. Be warned this is a one night showing only, so this is your shot to see this on the big screen with excellent popcorn, just as the Good Lord intended!

ALIEN: The Director's Cut @ The Music Box in Chicago

ALIEN: The Director's Cut

New 35mm Print! DTS Sound!
Edit 9/16: NOT! This is a bad print and we had to leave early because of it!
The first part is horribly scarred, and it never came into focus no matter how hard they tried. I got motion sickness from it and we had to leave right about the time the little baby Jesus was born. They did give us passes for a future show.
Rent it!
"4 STARS! Still vibrates with a dark and frightening intensity.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, which lands on a moribund planet in response to a faint SOS.