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Re-Run Theater ditches its socks for its annual Miami Vice celebration with an airing of Season 2 premiere "The Prodigal Son," complete with wine coolers and an appearance by love-interest star Susan Hess. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 29.
Frances Ford Coppola's masterful paranoid thriller The Conversation is the latest audience-approved selection at the Hollywood. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Thursday, July 30.
Oh come on. The Lego Movie was basically made for Flicks on the Bricks. Everything about this screening is, in fact, awesome. Pioneer Courthouse Square. Dusk, Friday, July 31.
Here's all you need to know about 1984's Streets of Fire: It's a rock opera by the director of The Warriors about a mercenary, his kidnapped girlfriend and a bunch of skeezy bikers. Oh, and there's also Rick Moranis. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Friday, July 31 and 7:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 1.
The Top Down series on the roof of the Hotel deLuxe gets very, very weird with the 1965 hunting-humans-as-sport comedy The 10th Victim, which, in 1965, was going all Hunger Games way before Katniss, and with a sense of humor to boot. Hotel deLuxe. 8 pm Thursday, July 30.
The NW Film Center's retrospective of films by Paul Thomas Anderson goes long with his breakthrough, Boogie Nights (Friday-Saturday), plus two films that influenced the director: Quentin Tarantino's subdued crime drama Jackie Brown (Saturday) and 1964's avant-garde-ish, propagandistic I Am Cuba. NW Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium. See NWFilm.org for full listings.
There's a lot of weird shit in Hong Kong cinema, but the fact that the least-weird thing about 1989's bullet-riddled God of Gamblers is Chow Yun-Fat as an expert gambler who thinks he's an 8-year-old boy really sets it apart. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7:30 pm Friday, July 31.
Though his potential as the next great martial-arts star was never fully realized, the feats in Tony Jaa's Thai bruiser Ong-Bak stand tall among the greats. In fact, it's some of the best stunt-based action of the past two decades. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, July 31-Aug. 2.
Aliens, man. Aliens. Laurelhurst Theater. Friday-Thursday, July 31-Aug. 6.
Hand2Mouth Theater's Gus Van Sant series continues with the divisive fracking drama Promised Land. Clinton Street Theater. 7:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 1.
Never mind Shark Week. It's the Summer of Jaws, which continues its 40th anniversary tour at Night Movies. Cartopia. Dark. Sunday, Aug. 2.
B-Movie Bingo pits Cynthia Rothrock against a sadistic David Carradine and good taste in Martial Law. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 4.
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