R. Kelly once asserted, “It’s the freakin’ weekend baby, I’m about to have me some fun.” And really, as a film fan, what’s more fun than seeing films you hold near and dear projected once more.

So every Friday, I’ll be bringing you news and reminders of the sweetest repertory screenings across the country to get your ass out and about. This weekend: JAWS, SINFUL dwarves and all sorts of entities hit NYC, L.A “Flatlines,” Maryland gets a HUNGER and Ohio has monster of a double feature!

Note: As Fango and myself are NYC based; these will most often be New York and L.A-related bits, but if you drop me a line at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with info of a screening anywhere, I’ll get it in here!

New York City

• The ultimate summer classic! Steven Spielberg’s JAWS returns to the IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street | 212 924-7771) this Friday and Saturday at 11:30 p.m.

• The New York Asian Film Festival continues its rampage of the Film Society of Lincoln Center with a midnight screening of the gonzo classic RIKI-OH:THE STORY OF RICKY on Friday and the latest South Korean stunner, BEDEVILLED on Sunday at 7 p.m.

• If the paranormal is more your speed, join the NY Darkside Horror Group this Sunday as they meet up at the Fat Black Pussycat (103 West 3rd St) for a group viewing of Barbara Hershey being sexually assaulted by a ghost in THE ENTITY at 4 p.m. Post-screening, “special guest Dan Sturges will lead a half-hour discussion on real life hauntings and how the movies portray them. He will play video and audio from his real paranormal investigations. He will also field any and all questions anyone may have.” Check the Facebook event here.

• At Brooklyn’s brand new Nitehawk Cinema (136 Metropolitan Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211) this Sunday, Destroy All VHS takes over at 10 p.m. with all sorts of clips and a showing the 1979 oddity, FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE ORPHAN. 

• Meanwhile the weekend is just the beginning at Film Forum, where today they launch a week long engagement of the original sci-fi classic, PLANET OF THE APES (which Tony Timpone looked back on just recently).

• Also merely getting started is the ReRun Gastropub Theater’s look back at Severin Films with a whole bunch of 2-for-1 double features and single showings of Roman Polanski’s WHAT?,  THE BABY (1973), THE SINFUL DWARF and Lucio Fulci’s THE PSYCHIC!

L.A.

• The Silent Movie Theater is aiming to make you fear the sewers again with a midnight screening of the Lewis Teague-directed, John Sayles-written, much beloved ALLIGATOR!

• Saturday, at the American Cinematheque sees a double feature of the Tobe Hooper’s space vampire flick, LIFEFORCE and Joel Schumacher’s awesome (really) medical students gone-awry FLATLINERS, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

MARYLAND

• Back on the East Coast, the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland (8633 Colesville Road) sees Hitchcock’s immortal PSYCHO playing all weekend long, while Tony Scott’s early-80s THE HUNGER show Saturday and Sunday nights.

OHIO

• Columbus may have it the best, as the Ohio Theatre (55 East State Street, Columbus, Ohio) presents a Friday night double feature of the amazing and odd BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, followed by the classic, ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN. The monster love gets underway at 7:30 p.m.

A sweet weekend indeed!

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