COMING ATTRACTIONS - MAY 25 - STEAL THIS STORY, PRESSURE & SPECIALS

INTERNET DISRUPTION NOTICE: We have been without internet service for three days now and the likelihood of us getting it back today, Memorial Day, is slim (to none). Meaning, both specials today, PRESSURE sneak @ 2 and THE BIRDCAGE (at 7) have been replaced by STEAL THIS STORY PLEASE, which will now screen three times at 2, 5 & 7. Serious apologies for this.

MON MAY 25 - STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE @ 2 & 5 & 7
TUE MAY 26 -  STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE @ 5 & 7 - OR PRESSURE -
WED MAY 27 -  STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE @ 5 & 7
THU MAY 28 -  STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE @ 4:30 & PRIVATE PARTY @ 7
FRI MAY 29 - PRESSURE @ 4:35 & 6:45
SAT MAY 30 - PRESSURE @ 1:45 & 3:50, HS JAZZ OPEN MIC @ 6:30/7
SUN MAY 31 - Open House with TARRA SIMMONS @ NOON, PRESSURE @ 2:10, 4:2O & 6:45
MON JUNE 1: PRESSURE @ 4:35 & 6:45
TUE JUNE 2 : PRESSURE @ 4:35 & 6:45
WED JUNE 3: PRESSURE @ 4:35 & 6:45
THU JUNE 4: PRESSURE @ 4:35 & 6:45
FRI JUNE 5: PRESSURE @ 4:35 & 6:45
FRI JUNE 11: DISCLOSURE DAY*

STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE. The thirty year story of video journalist Amy Goodman asking important questions of politicians, generals, rebels, the resistance and leaders of the industrial, military complex. Even a gaggle of other radio/TV personalities. Sitting at 83% at IMDB. Should you be interested in how we get out of our current nightmare, this is a prerequisite to understand how we got in. Amy provides the backstory. While the entire doc is intense, the final ten minutes are brutal in making the case for the importance of independent, alternative, non-state controlled media, or what is better labeled propaganda. I wonder what the Island’s number of households watching Faux News is these days. My non-Neilson guess is 18%. Sadly.

PRESSURE: From David Haig’s 2014 stage play of the same name, starring Andrew Scott as Capt James Stagg and AA winner Brendan Fraser as IKE in the, roughly, 72 chaotically intense hours leading up to D-Day. Co-starring Kerry Condon and Damain Lewis. Should you be a fan on big-screen historical reenactments circa 1940-1945, as I am, this one follows the ticking bomb pattern to the bloody beach at Normandy. Even short of DUNKIRK, PRVT RYAN or THE LONGEST DAY, this one looks to be in their lofty cinematic standing . Not for the small screen (or faint of heart).

*DISCLOSURE DAY: Mr Spielberg’s return to his genre roots ala CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, AI, MINORITY REPORT and perhaps, ET and even POLTERGEIST, DISCLOSURE DAY asks a the double-blind question about alien life forms currently living among us; How would we know? Oscar winning sound editor/designer and Islander Gary Rydstrom has agreed to welcome DD premiere sneak at the, now confirmed, preview on Thursday, June 11 at 7, with an intro and post screening Q&A. You will want to get tickets early for that one!

SAT MAY 30 - HS JAZZ BAND OPEN MIC. The talented kids from BIHS invite you and your jazzy chops up to the stage to join them in their Spring Showcase open mic/fundraiser event. You will not be disappointed. Doors at 6:30, eventtime is 7-9.

SUN MAY 31 - Open House with TARRA SIMMONS. 1:30. Free entry (as in all functioning democracies). This is also a Rally/Fundraiser, so bring your Democracy support funds.

Had the chance to sir down and chat with local filmmakers MARK AND EMMA CAMERON earlier this week. We are planning on a run of their 2025 film DETENTION filmed entirely on BI, in the near future. Listen to our conversation here.

I have invited JEFF BREIN, Big Cheese QB at Far Away Entertainment for an official update podcast this week, pending his hectic schedule, so please check these pages for that. We have lot’s to discuss, including our transition to 501 (c)(3) category and the formulation of the inaugural HLT Board of Directors, three of which I invited yesterday. For the record (box score) I went 2 for 3. The one was a ‘let me think about that’, the baseball equivalent of popping out with the bases loaded.

All for today folks, thanks as always for your help and support, the 2026 HLT 90th Anniversary Free Movie ballots are ready for your review and voting participation at the theatre. Of the 90 films awarded Best Picture since July 3, 1936 (our official DOB) you get to select (vote for) three. Those receiving the most votes we will screen at no charge on July 25 & 26 in celebration thereof. I will also post them here and on our web site in case you can’t make it to the HLT due to traffic on Miller, Fletcher Bay or Lynwood Ctr roads. There you have it. 


Ciao,

Kevin

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