Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Weekly What To Do: Drive-Ins, Online Screenings and Some Art

Thu. Jan. 28, 6:35pm
Arena Cinelounge Drive In
$tarts at $40

We highly recommend watching this brutally funny movie about a little girl who controls a horrible alien monster. And, possibly has the laziest Dad ever.
 

Thu. Jan. 28, 2021
7:30 pm PST - 8:45 pm
 (LA Online)
$10 BUY TICKETS HERE or buy a Miskatonic LA Full Semester pass for $40 HERE

This presentation will discuss scopophilia and claustrophilia as two predominant horror themes in Rampo’s fiction writing and their adaptation in the Japanese film and art worlds. Jacobowitz argues that he used these drives for visual pleasure and a love of coffin-like, enclosed spaces to achieve something closer to what his contemporaries, the Surrealists, regarded as a bridge between reality and imagination toward a more pure expression of the unconscious mind. We will explore his “Stalker in the Attic” (1926) and the film The Watcher in the Attic (1976) directed by Noboru Tanaka, the omnibus film Rampo Noir (2005), and Suehiro Maruo’s graphic novel The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (2010), among other works.
 

Nan Lawson's Through The Woods 2
&
Alex Solis's new Icons Unmasked
FRIDAY, Jan 29 at Noon PT at gallery1988.com


One of our favorite collections, from one of our favorite artists, will return to Gallery1988 THIS FRIDAY. Nan Lawson has created a brand new collection of work for her Through The Woods series, and she has outdone herself.

Alex Solis has created another genius Icons Unmasked collection. Unveiling the true identities of legendary characters, this show is full of smart and witty pop culture interpretations.
 

A Live Screening of Dario Argento's Debut 'Giallo'
Fri, Jan 29, 2021 7:00 PM
Online 
Free
 
Followed by a Live Discussion with Dr. Rebekah McKendry & Elric Kane, Hosts of Fangoria's Colors of the Dark Podcast.
 
Sam (Tony Musante, WE OWN THE NIGHT) is an American writer living in Rome, and witnesses a brutal attack on a woman (Eva Renzi, FUNERAL IN BERLIN) in a modern art gallery. Powerless to help, he grows increasingly obsessed with the incident. Convinced he saw something that night which holds the key to identifying the maniac terrorizing Rome, Sam launches his own investigation parallel to that of the police, heedless of the danger to him and his girlfriend (Suzy Kendall, SPASMO.)
 

Sun, Jan 31, 7:00 PM 
Glendale Sears Parking Lot
211 West California Avenue
Glendale, CA 91203 
$23 

Date: Saturday, January 30, 2021 U.S.& Canada: 5 pm Pacific
Online
Free
 
Hosted by social media personalities Justin Rojas (HomeCon / Envy Gaming) and Lisa Wallen (Kawaii Five-O Podcast), the “World Trigger” Season 2 Global Livestream Watch Party will include a series introduction and special video message to fans from Japanese cast members Tomo Muranaka (voice of “YĆ«ma Kuga”), Kenta Tanaka (voice of “Sumiharu Inukai”), Toshiyuki Toyonaga (voice of “Ratarykov”) and Ayumu Murase (voice of “Reghindetz”) followed a screening of “World Trigger” Season 2 Eps 1 & 2 (in Japanese with English subtitles) along with post-episode discussions and promotional giveaways. 
  

Saturday, January 30, 7:15 PM
Arena Cinelounge Drive In
$tarts at $40

On a snowy Christmas Eve, former mild-mannered college student Casey Smallwood is released from prison after serving 10 years for underage drinking. Eager to get out of town, he hops on the express train to Washington, D.C., but after the holiday express takes off into the winter wilderness, it’s hijacked by an angry gang of domestic terrorists and highly-intelligent, government-trained raccoons! Not one to back down from a raccoon fight, Casey joins forces with a porter on the train to fight the terrorists, help bring down a top secret, raccoon-controlled, military laser satellite and show those raccoons who’s in charge!