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02.05-06 – A Clockwork Orange
02.12-13 – Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
02.19-20 - The Room
02.27 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show
03.05-06 – Mystery Team
03.12-13 – Back to the Future
03.19-20 – The Room
03.27 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
04.02-03 - The Big Lebowski
04.09-10 - Spice World
04.16-17 – The Room

All films are $9.

Spice World – Trailer

A weekly look at the Minnesota concert calendar from your friends at Switchblade Comb. The full list can be viewed HERE.

Minnesota Shows List:

01 – Night & the City (Heights)
02 – Betty LaVette (Hopkins Center For The Arts – Hopkins, MN))
03 – Mavis Staples (Dakota Jazz Club)
03 – Still Bill (Trylon)
04 – Mavis Staples (Dakota Jazz Club)
04 – Jemina Pearl [BYOP]+ Goddamn Doo Wop Band (Triple Rock)
04 – Marguerite, a Reflection of Herself (Walker)
04 – The Truck & Césarée (Walker)
05 – D.R.I. (Station 4)
05 – The Framed + Spacewolf (Hexagon)
05 – Indian Song (Walker)
05 – Made in USA (Trylon)
05 – A Clockwork Orange (Uptown Theatre)
05 – The Entrance Band (400 Bar)
06 – Strike Anywhere (Triple Rock)
06 – The Blind Shake (331 Club)
06 – Destroy, She Said (Walker)
06 – Made in USA (Trylon)
06 – A Clockwork Orange (Uptown Theatre)
06 – Buster Keaton & Cartoon Festival (Parkway)
06 – Haiti Benefit: Solid Gold + Mark Mallman + Zoo Animal (First Ave)
07 – Nathalie Granger (Walker)
07 – Buster Keaton & Cartoon Festival (Parkway)

The Brilliant Green is a powerhouse pop rock band formed in 1997, and one of the first bands that hooked me on Japanese rock. With half of their songs in English, the band has had decent crossover appeal, even being named by Time magazine as one of the top ten contemporary acts outside of the U.S. in 2001.

While fairly inactive over the last few years while their members focused more on solo projects (like vocalist’s Tomoko Kawase’s popular Tommy February6), there’s currently talk of a new album being released soon consisting of previously unrecorded material over the last decade.

The Brilliant Green – “Ash Like Snow”

Local documentary Will Work For Food is set to screen next month at Bryant Lake Bowl. Hence that title up above. The Twin Cities have a habit of making good docs, so here’s hoping for quality work.

Will Work for Food” is a feature documentary about homeless people and the visible increase in panhandling activity in and around the Twin Cities, particularly, the Maplewood area. The film explores the lives and backgrounds of several panhandles and sign flyers through personal interviews and scenes of everyday survival.

Thursday, February 11
7:00 PM l $7

Trailer

Not much information to go on yet, but the Out Twin Cities Film Festival will take place on June 4 & 5. Somewhere.

The fest is currently looking for volunteers and submissions (due April 30), and will have a special ‘Youth Visual Perspectives’ series.

For more info, check HERE.

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I . . . I have no idea what’s going on in that trailer. But whatever. ‘Beat’ Takeshi, the coolest person on the planet, is finally done meddling in his sub-par self-reflexive trilogy and has returned to the yakuza genre with Outrage, my most anticipated film of the year. If it gets here in time.

Drunken Post is a feature on Switchblade Comb wherein Rich or The Joe gets wasted and posts nonsensical / non topical videos or musings at very early hours of the morning.

Remember Crystal Pepsi? Or Hubba Bubba’s Bubble Gum Soda? Nothing in life (on a nostalgic soda level) is better than that. And THIS website about discontinued sodas is the best. Really. Yes indeedy. SURGE!!!

We noted before that the Minnesota FIlm Arts were bringing in foreign and independent films to their new base at St. Anthony Main, but now we have some dates to go along with that rather vague original post.

01.29 – 02.11 - La Danse: The Paris Ballet
02.05 – 02.11 – That Evening Sun
02.12 – 02.16 – The Yes Men Fix the World
02.17 – 02.25 – Collapse
02.19 – 02.25 – Waiting For Armageddon
02.26 – 03.04 – My Son My Son, What Have Ye Done?
02.26 – 03.04 – The Sun

My Son My Son What Have Ye Done – Trailer

In Switchblade Comb’s neverending quest to bring you the best in Abraham Lincoln entertainment news, this trailer for HBO’s new sketch comedy series teases clips of the most recent Drunk History, with Don Cheadle as Frederick Douglass and Will Ferrell as the one-and-only Abe Lincoln.

Funny or Die Presents premieres February 19. Watch the trailer HERE.

As if having Martin Scorcese/Terence Winter’s Boardwalk Empire, David Simon’s Treme, and David Milch/Michael Mann’s Luck on their upcoming plate weren’t enough, David Fincher is teaming up with HBO to turn the book Mind Hunter: Inside The FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit into a new series. Charlize Theron will help produce and Scott Buck, an executive producer on Dexter, will write the pilot.

Mindhunter enters the minds of some of the country’s most notorious serial killers to tell the real-life story of the Investigative Support Unit (ISU) — the FBI’s special force that has assisted state and local police in cracking some of the country’s most celebrated serial murder and rape cases. The unit specializes in understanding the chemistry and mechanical workings of the brain’s of these serial criminals, and did its homework by interviewing such murderers as Charles Manson and David Berkowitz (the Son of Sam).

Expect that sometime in the future.