A Blaxploitation Cocktail to get you in the mood for tomorrow's BMN!

Tomorrow night, Ye Olde Schlockologist will celebrate the most bad-assed sub-genre in American Cinema with an educational discourse on Blaxploitation--and spiffy visual aids to boot! Enclosed please find a couple of things to get you into the mood:

The trailer for the Pam Grier vehicle, Foxy Brown:



...and the thoroughly awesome Blacula:



For follow-up study (and a couple of token plugs):

Two key figures in black cinema passed away in the last couple of years. They led interesting lives, and made invaluable contributions to Bizarro cinema. You can read about Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones herself) with a click here; and Isaac Hayes (the God behind the Shaft soundtrack, and the title character in the film Truck Turner) by clicking here.

Last but not least, the man widely credited with starting the entire 'Blaxploitation' revolution in the 1970's was writer/director Melvin van Peebles. An interview--and detailed overview of van Peebles' life and career--can be accessed by clicking here.

Be at the Aster tomorrow, Fiends, Neighbors, and Suckas!

Next Bizarro Movie Night: Friday June 25

Hello, Fiends and Neighbors! The finest Cinema Appreciation Educational series in Ballard is returning this Friday!

Apologies for the lack of Bizarro-ness of late: Ye Olde Schlockologist has been up to his chin in SIFF film coverage, all of which can be seen at the SunBreak.com (the most Bizarro-worthy bits would probably be--pimpery alert--the interview with giallo-horror-art film Amer's directors Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet, and the soon-to-be-posted interview with the director and star of Ticked Off Trannies with Knives!)

But the big, immediate news is this Friday's Bizarro-palooza, an educational treatise on Urban Action Cinema of the 1970's (that'd be Blaxploitation, brothers and sisters). Ye Olde Schlockologist's lecture on this cinematic movement will be followed by an educational screening of one of the finest examples of the genre.

More on this most bad-assed of cinema muthas (shut your mouth) in the coming days. BE THERE!

Ballard Goes Bizarro Once More! Sex, Sin, Vice, Drugs...and Snacks!!

Well, Fiends and Neighbors, are you ready for another round of Bizarro Good Times? You darn well better be!

Big news on the Aster Coffee Lounge front! Bizarro Movie Night's fab benefactor has added caramel walnut and peanut butter brownies to their snacking repertoire! AND you can still get a damn fine coffee or chai tea latte, AND tasty beers, wines, and other snacks. Speaking of which...

Not only will we be busting out some prime Dwain Esper dementia, Your Schlockologist Truly and the Bizarro Movie Night Promo Team will be busting out commemorative Bizarro Movie Night SNACKS as a special tie-in with tomorrow night's double-bill!

C'mon. You know you want a bag.

Be there, Fiends and Neighbors!

Sin, Vice, Drugs, Skinnydipping, and Serpiente!! All at the next Bizarro Movie Night!!

You heard it right, Fiends and Neighbors! The next BMN is May 1, Saturday night! And it's gonna be a lulu...An Orgy of Decadence, Despair, Drugs, and SKINNYDIPPING, Roadshow Grindhouse-style.

We'll be paying tribute to con-man/warped auteur Dwain Esper, a man who inflicted some of the strangest and seediest films known to man on an unsuspecting and titillation-starved Depression-era public--all under the guise of cautionary tales to rescue the Youth of our Nation from the dangers of, well, damned near everything!!

Admission's still free, and it's official: El Serpiente de Oro will be guest-hosting! Buckle up your seatbelts for a wild and warped ride!

Ready to Rock and Roll, Fiends and Neighbors??!

Hope so! That's what we wanna hear! In case you haven't gotten the word already, as a special tribute to Record Store Day, Bizarro Movie Night's going all Rock and Roll on Saturday!

Ye Olde Schlockologist has finally decided the programming for this Saturday's Bizarro-riffic presentation at the Aster Coffee Lounge, and you won't be disappointed, cats and kittens. We'll be throwing down the 1962 B-movie classic, WILD GUITAR!

The Beatles? Bah! Elvis? PfFFT! We've got Arch Hall Jr, the man with the sweetest blonde pompadour on the planet, busting out rockabilly jewels and clawing his way to the top of the Rock and Roll heap!! If you haven't seen the full-length version of this twist-fevered classic, you HAVEN'T LIVED, Fiends and Neighbors. Period.

Be there or be L7!

News Flash!! Next TWO Bizarro Movie Nights Scheduled!!

Hello again, Fiends and Neighbors! Facebook invites have gone out for it, but the next Bizarro Movie Night is officially scheduled for:

 Saturday April 17!!

Yes, the wonderful world of Weird Cinema will return to the Aster Coffee Lounge a week from Saturday!!

In the interest of presenting an all-encompassing Whitman's Sampler of Strange, we're going to set next week's Bizarro Movie Night to a rock and roll backbeat! Yes, the next BMN will cater to that primal beat that'll yank you out of your seat! Exact details are still being plotted out, but a couple of things are for certain, Daddy-O:

1) There will be Rock and Roll!

2) There will be FABULOUS DOOR PRIZES!!

3) There will be patter so snappy that Chuck Berry could duckwalk to it!!

Just to get your juices flowing, Fiends and Neighbors, here's a little snifter of random rockin' to set the mood...





Oh, and then April showers will bring May flowers--AND yet another Bizarro Movie Night at the Aster on Saturday May 1!! Mark yer calendars!

Ye Olde Schlockologist is planning on a spectacular spring and summer, so stick around, Daddy-O!

HIghlights from the March 20 Bizarro Movie Night!

Hello again, Fiends and Neighbors--

Thanks to all of you who made the last BMN the fun time it was! Those of you poor pathetic souls who, through some hideous miscarriage of God and nature, did not make it to witness the mayhem missed out on:

A super-special big-screen exhibition of El Serpiente de Oro and the Temple of Geek, with a customarily robust introduction from the film's star, legendary luchador El Serpiente de Oro!

All of the gory details on El Serpiente's encounter with the evil villano, Baron Birkenstock!

...And of course, the movie. Not just any movie, either, Fiends and Neighbors! We screened Attack of the Monsters, in which two little boys get abducted by a remote-control spaceship, flown to a far-off planet, and terrorized by a knife-blade-headed lizard and the two brain-eating Japanese space babes in tights who keep him on a leash. And it's a kid's film...

I'm feeling a little rock-and-roll coming on for the next one, folks. Stay tuned for more, more, more details in the days and weeks ahead! And thanks for continuing to support Bizarro Movie Night!!