The Annandale Hotel

CULT SINEMA Tuesday with Jay Katz & Miss Death are proudly sponsored by Madman

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American Splendor

In the comic Hall of Fame, there's Batman, Superman, Spiderman... and everyman. Meet real-life hero Harvey Pekar. He's a shuffling, grumbling file-clerk from Cleveland, a social misfit and an observational genius. Pekar chronicles the mishaps and minutiae of his own life in American Splendor and gets his pal Robert Crumb on board as illustrator-extraordinaire. His cult-comic elevates all-things-mundane into an artform and makes Pekar a celebrity underdog in the process

Every Tuesday, our main bar is transformed into a cinema as Jay Katz & Miss Death present a series of rare feature films projected live, with a selection of short oddities. You will not see these films on cable, TV or video!

This whimsical black comedy became a cult favorite, tapping into some inexplicable early 1970s zeitgeist. Harold is a rich teenager obsessed with slashed wrists, self-inflicted gunshot wounds, personal vivisection, drowning, hanging, and being burned alive--just to annoy his mother. Maude is a poor 79-year-old optimist who has a peerless affinity for all things living. Together they attend strangers' wakes and find in each other a most unlikely romantic partner. In the days before home video, when access to anything but first-run Hollywood movies was limited to repertory houses and college film societies, Hal Ashby's HAROLD AND MAUDE achieved cult status and became a surprise hit. 7.30 $ 5 Suggested Donation

Andy Norris, the new music teacher at a high school from hell, faces an assortment of adolescent thugs eager to haze him on a daily basis. But brutality and unruliness aren't uncommon at Abraham Lincoln High, where drugs, prostitution and violent classrooms are controlled by gangs. Initially, Norris isn't intimidated by the hoodlums harassing him, but when they start threatening his wife, he'll have to take them on one by one. 7.30 $ 5 Suggested Donation

The time is the future and youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become 'free fire zones,' into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford (Malcolm McDowell), the principal of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, Robotics Specialist Dr. Robert Forrest (Stacy Keach) provides 'tactical education units.' These human-like androids have been programmed to teach and are supplied with weapons to discipline problems. These kids will get a lesson in staying alive!! Pam Grier also stars. 7.30 $ 5 Suggested Donation

Corey Haim (THE LOST BOYS), the baby-faced heartthrob who rose to stardom in 1980's high school films, proves his worth as an action star in this explosive thriller. When a group of terrorists take over a quiet high school campus, one brave and determined student (Haim) must fight to get his school back. Fighting with both evil individuals and the clock (a nuclear missile is set to destroy the entire school,) this innocent teenager manages to transform himself into a fearless hero. An edge-of-your-seat thriller DEMOLITION HIGH combines awesome special effects with heart. Corny as.7.30 $ 5 Suggested Donation

Corey Haim is back in Demolition University every one has to graduate eventually. The plot revolves around a busload of physics majors (!) visiting a local nuclear power plant for a field trip. Unbeknownst to them (but unbeknownst to us), the plant has been taken over by terrorists who have big evil plans to poison the city's water supply, or something like that. It was never entirely clear exactly what they were trying to accomplish. Most of the terrorists are middle-eastern, with generic names like "Abdul" and "Hadad," but they are led by an American of the block-of-wood school of acting who has turned against his own government because... well, I don't want to ruin the most unintentionally comedic scene in the film, so I won't reveal his reasons. Suffice it to say it's up to Corey and his classmates to save the world, and you'll have a hard time deciding who is more incompetent--the physics students, the terrorists, or the police and FBI agents who are brought in to handle the "situation." Here is a typical exchange, by two students who have evaded the terrorists (unintentionally, of course--no one seems to do anything on purpose here) and are wandering the basement of the power plant: 7.30 $ 5 Suggested Donation

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Phone 9517-2010

�The Naked City� � every Saturday morning from 10am till midday on FBI (94.5) with Jay Katz, Miss Death and Coffin Ed and guests that have included JJ (from Good Times), Roger Rogerson (from Bad Times), Solomon Burke, Jack Sargeant, Keith Mansfield (KPM Stock Music Legend), Neil Hamburger and many more. An adrenalin charged look at the sad arsed city of Sydney!