Take A Chance With The Duke – Tuesday 26 May

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Please note this month we’re on a TUESDAY night – Tuesday 26 May.

It’s that time of the year again – yes, May – when we celebrate our very own Evrim’s birthday by handing him the reins of the night for the evening. But in true Duke fashion we’ve decided to give it a twist this year: a surprise, RARE feature that we’ll all watch for the first time as a treat.

On the night we’ll be screening the super obscure 1982 film: The Neighbourhood. Why are we watching this? Well firstly we’d never heard of it before, or even seen the sleeve on our travels but it looks and sounds so good. Secondly there’s not one second of this film available to watch online, it’s not on YouTube and you won’t find it anywhere else. Thirdly and probably most fun, the only reviews of the film that we can find online are two entries on iMDB, both of which are written by students of the film’s director Bob Jones, who now teaches film and seems to screen The Neighbourhood as part of his course.

And remember, who haven’t watched this film so we’ll be going into the evening as blind as you’ll be, so come along and take a chance with us, it could be amazing!

But that’s not all: there will be trailer trash designed to blow your eyeballs, Evrim will be bringing one of his favourite shorts of the year as a present for the audience, our quiz will feature more amazing gifts and much, much more. There might even be some news about DukeFest 2015…

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35MM Sci-Fi Trailers!

This Saturday 9th May we’ll be playing a reel of vintage 35MM Sci-Fi trailers at The Prince Charles Cinema before all the screenings of Blade Runner Final Cut, the two evening showings are now Sold Out, but you can still pick up tickets for the late night show here.

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Clerks – The Unseen Live Action Pilot

Now here’s something I didn’t even know existed until the last, here’s the never seen before, live action TV pilot to Clerks:

Is it any good and worth watching? To be honest no, it’s deeply unfunny and a pale shadow of what the film was. But on the other hand it’s totally worth seeing out of curiosity just to see how unfunny it is, plus the best thing is that there are several scenes set inside a mid-nineties video store!

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VHS Wanted!

Big thanks to our friends on Monday night who donated these great VHS tapes to us, we’ll be watching them soon looking for trailers and weird clips to bring you. If anyone else out there wants to donate any old obscure VHS tapes to us then please just get in touch.

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