We can't be stopped! Check out our screenings planned for the weekend of February 21st through the 24th below, and get out to see our newly open movie theater at 445 Main Street, Beacon, NY. We figured what better way to celebrate Oscars weekend than screening three absolute masterpieces of the craft. Booya. We currently are not accepting online ticketing, but rest assured we will be launching that program very soon, as well as a more viewer friendly calendar showing all over events planned throughout the coming months. We'll see you there, and stay tuned for more!! Hours of Operation: Thursday-Saturday: 12:00PM - 10:00PM Sunday: 12:00PM - 8:00PM SHOWTIMES T1 – Theater 1 (77 seats) T2 – Theater 2 (25 seats) Tickets: $10 Adult / $8 Children/Seniors THURSDAY FEB 21ST 12:30PM – Beasts of the Southern Wild (T1) 2:00PM - Moonlight (T2) 4:00PM – Beasts of the Southern Wild (T1) 5:00 PM - Moonlight (T2) 8:00PM – Beasts of the Southern Wild (T1) FRIDAY FEB 22ND 12:30PM - Moonlight (T1) 2:00PM – Beasts of the Southern Wild (T2) 4:00PM - Moonlight (T1) 5:00 PM – Beasts of the Southern Wild (T2) 8:00PM – Moonlight (T1) SATURDAY FEB 23RD 12:30PM - Moonlight (T2) 2:00PM – Good Burger (T1) 4:00PM – Moonlight (T2) 8:30PM – Beasts of the Southern Wild (T1) SUNDAY FEB 24TH 12:30PM – Beasts of the Southern Wild (T2) 3:00PM – Good Burger (T1) 4:00PM – Beasts of the Southern Wild (T2) 6:00PM - Moonlight (T1) MOONLIGHT A look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young black man growing up in Miami. His epic journey to manhood is guided by the kindness, support and love of the community that helps raise him. 2016 (1h55m) Drama Rated R BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) lives with her father, Wink (Dwight Henry), in a remote Delta community. Wink is a stern taskmaster, but he is preparing his young daughter for the end of the world. When Wink falls mysteriously ill, nature seems to fall ill with him. Temperatures rise, the ice caps melt and fearsome prehistoric beasts called aurochs run loose. Rising waters threaten to engulf their community, sending Hushpuppy in search of her long-lost mother. 2012 (1h33m) Fantasy/Drama Rated PG-13 GOOD BURGER When Mondo Burger sets up across the street, sneaky Dexter and burger-obsessed Ed realise they need to fight to keep their fast food joint going. Their new secret sauce might be the answer, but not if Mondo can grab it. 1997 (1h43m) Teen Comedy/Masterpiece Rated PG WRESTLING GHOSTS w/ Live Q&A Event - SOLD OUT (March 10th tickets available here) The epic inner journey of Kim, a young mother who, over two heart-breaking and inspiring years, battles the traumas from her past to create a new present and future for her and her family. In this intimate portrait, Kim shares deeply personal moments that most of us keep secret in shame, and invites us into her counseling sessions. With her counselors’ help, Kim opens up to new ways of thinking and uncovers what has blocked her from experiencing the joy and connection she most desires. She learns about the impact of childhood trauma on her brain, and how, tragically, this very damage causes the trauma to be passed on to her own children. Armed with knowledge and compassion, she pursues new strategies to heal herself. 2018 (1h32m) Documentary Rated R Website For all inquires, contact us at StoryScreenBeacon@gmail.com. #Newsletter #Screenings #February2019 #Theater #Moonlight #BeastsoftheSouthernWild #GoodBurger #Oscars #Beacon #BeaconNY

The time has come! Check out our screenings planned for the weekend of February 15th through the 17th below, and get out to see our newly open movie theater at 445 Main Street, Beacon, NY. We currently are not accepting online ticketing, but rest assured we will be launching that program very soon, as well as a more viewer friendly calendar showing all over events planned throughout the coming months. We'll see you there, and stay tuned for more!! Hours of Operation: Friday-Saturday: 12:00PM - 10:00PM Sunday: 12:00PM - 8:00PM SHOWTIMES T1 – Theater 1 (77 seats) T2 – Theater 2 (25 seats) Tickets: $10 Adult / $8 Children/Seniors FRIDAY FEB 15TH 12:30PM - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (T1) 2:00PM - Back to the Future (T2) 4:00PM - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (T1) 5:00 PM - Back to the Future (T2) 8:00PM - The Wedding Singer (T1) SATURDAY FEB 16TH 12:30PM - Back to the Future (T1) 2:00PM - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (T2) 4:00PM - Back to the Future (T1) 5:00PM - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (T2) 8:00PM - The Wedding Singer (T1) SUNDAY FEB 17TH 12:30PM - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (T2) 3:00PM - Back to the Future (T1) 4:00PM - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (T2) 6:00PM- Back to the Future (T1) BACK TO THE FUTURE In this 1980s sci-fi classic, small-town California teen Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is thrown back into the '50s when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) goes awry. Traveling through time in a modified DeLorean car, Marty encounters young versions of his parents (Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson), and must make sure that they fall in love or he'll cease to exist. Even more dauntingly, Marty has to return to his own time and save the life of Doc Brown. 1985 (1h56m) Fantasy/Science Fiction Rated PG BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (30th Anniversary!) Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are high school buddies starting a band. However, they are about to fail their history class, which means Ted would be sent to military school. They receive help from Rufus (George Carlin), a traveler from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation. 1989 (1h31m) Fantasy/Comedy Rated PG THE WEDDING SINGER (Valentine's Weekend Date Night) Set in 1985, Adam Sandler plays a nice guy with a broken heart who's stuck in one of the most romantic jobs in the world, a wedding singer. He loses all hope when he is abandoned at the altar by his fiancé. He meets a young woman named Julia (Drew Barrymore), who enlists his help to plan her wedding. He falls in love with her and must win her over before she gets married. 1998 (1h36m) Romance/Comedy Rated PG-13 For all inquires, contact us at StoryScreenBeacon@gmail.com. #Newsletter #Screenings #February2019 #BacktotheFuture #BillandTedsExcellentAdventure #TheWeddingSinger #Theater

Host Bernadette Gorman-White is joined by guests, Courtney Martin and Patricia Santos, to talk about the new Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen web series on Amazon, Forever, and all the things this funny and heartfelt show is trying to say. Check it out: Listen on SoundCloud #Newsletter #Podcasts #CathodeRayCast #Forever #Amazon #BernadetteGormanWhite #CourtneyMartin #PatriciaSantos #FredArmisen #MayaRudolph #TV #Comedy

Another year gone, another episode covering all the amazing films held within. And this time it's our 150 episode!! Join Mike Burdge, Robby Anderson, Bernadette Gorman-White, Diana DiMuro and Jack Kolodziejski as they discuss some of their favorite films of the year in celebration, including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Mandy, The Rider, Thunder Road, Sorry to Bother You , and plenty more! Check it out: Listen on SoundCloud #Newsletter #Podcasts #2018 #Bestof #Bestof2018 #MikeBurdge #DianaDiMuro #BernadetteGormanWhite #JackKolodziejski #RobertAnderson #Mandy

When Lennon and McCartney sang “Happiness is a Warm Gun,” perhaps they were using their clairvoyant superpowers to sing about how life would be in 2018. This is probably not true, but you never know with those zany Beatles! Anyway dear reader, on multiple accounts, 2018 was a tough year. I spent the latter part of the year really thinking about what makes me happy and how I should continue to surround myself, and let my media consumption be led by that. That’s why I wanted to compile a list of work that made me happy within the past year. That being said, because I’m a deeply cynical person, I normally stray to the dystopian side of the work with which I choose to surround myself in (hence the Blade Runner tattoo). However, in spite of my deeply cynical state, I am still an optimist at heart… I just need to remember to hang on to that, as opposed to getting swallowed by my cynicism. Without further adieu, in no particular order, here are the things that made me happy this past year. The Sloppy Boys - Lifelong Vacation Formerly known as part of the sketch comedy troupe the Birthday Boys, Tim Kalpakis, Jefferson Dutton, and Mike Dutton put out a lazy, throwback album that I ended up enjoying a lot. Their sound can best be described as if Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band didn’t take themselves so seriously. Or, if Captain Beefheart or Frank Zappa had a little more restraint, and less acerbic wit in their writing process. Their humor mostly comes through with the content they are singing about, however, sometimes the timbre of their own voices (in addition to how earnestly they sing absurd lyrics) is where the humor really comes into play. This is specifically evident in “We Came Here to Rock,” and “Let’s Party.” The only “Sloppy” aspect of their music that is immediately apparent is intentionally in their own recording methods. It’s almost as if their decay goes on just a millisecond too long. Other than that, everything is crafted extremely carefully and like any good comedy, with impeccable delivery. This album is so much fun it forces you to hear nonsensical gibberish and instead of making you ask, “Why does this song exist?” you end up asking, “Why the hell not?” This rings especially true when you listen to “Hee Hee Hee,” and an ode to Lady Gaga’s ridiculous outfits. YouTube’s Man Eating Food Channel In the late summer of 2018, some divine presence smiled down upon us all, and unleashed a video series of one silent man eating anything we requested. There are two main things I enjoy about this series, first, the silence: a rare respite in a world of ever-increasing autoplay video ads and distractions seeping through every second of downtime you may have. Both AV Club and Munchies have documented this man’s trials and tribulations. Second, this man’s unwavering focus, as he eats a wide range of bastardized food combinations (and some inedible items as well) is as close to a micro-meditation as you can get. There are some moments where you can extrapolate his process and how he will proceed in each bizarre request. Specifically, like “Zucchini on Ice Cream,” where for a brief moment, you can see his direct train of thought and gain some insight into what type of man we are truly dealing with. This is a man who is willing to consider his past, adapt with the situation, and move forward, undaunted, into the future. He looks at the spoon, looks at the lengthwise-sliced zucchini, then down at the ice cream. The man then proceeds to forego the usage of the spoon and takes advantage of the circumstance given to him, by taking the zucchini and using it to scoop up the ice cream. Simply put, this is progress. After the chewing commences you get just the slightest hint of a reaction from the man in the form of a reassuring nod. After the most atrocious combinations you can think of, that nod will still be there. This nod is the light at the end of my tunnel while watching these videos. Presumably, they are also the light at the end of his tunnel as well. It doesn’t matter how heinous a combination the request is, you will always get that nod. Like that nod posits, everything will indeed be fine through the end of any trial you may encounter. On an extremely rare occasion, at the end of the chew, you may even sneak a peek at a brief smile. This video series (as you can probably allude to by the length of my diatribe), is a gentle reminder that you should enjoy the simple things as much as you can. It’s fine to enjoy the simple tart-but-sweet bite of say, a raspberry, and really enjoy just that. The Favourite - Yorgos Lanthimos Sure, this is a pretty dark movie; but the fun spirit of this movie cannot be denied. At its best, Lanthimos has delivered a bombastic, anachronistic romp in an otherwise extremely dry era. His cinematic style reminded me of Shohei Imamura, a man who was not afraid to take big chances with a very heavy hand with his camera sense. However, the tone of the movie read more like a less timid Sofia Coppola film. Ultimately, this was adventurous, but not overbearingly so. In a movie full of cruelty and conniving schemes between its main characters, they do share some extremely cathartic moments of genuine joy. There is a consistent, underlying tension that remains throughout the movie, but it quickly dissipates with the actors’ wry, dead-on-arrival delivery. It is jarring, but in a way that commands your attention, as opposed to you missing some of the jokes because of an overbearing cinematic flair. The performances themselves are show stealing, even without Lanthimos and his masterfully crafted work. For me, the mental and physical gymnastics accomplished by Olivia Colman’s work as Queen Anne is deliriously fun. She effortlessly changes from petulant and childish, to a harrowing performance of someone with a debilitating injury, to finally, a poised, highfalutin Queen trying to keep her perceived dignity in tact in front of her subjects. She is this movie. Additionally, Nicholas Hoult’s foppish evil-brilliance is so pitch-perfect, that it is making Ryan Murphy deeply regret his casting decisions of Finn Witrock in American Horror Story: Freakshow . He is somehow as Machiavellian and cruel as he is petty and ridiculous, in the truest sense. Mostly 4 Millenials What could easily be described as the absurdist, syphilitic-ridden brain child of Eric Andre and Derrick Beckles, this show was beyond parody, beyond logic, and most of the time, beyond pleasurable viewing. I am a big fan of absurdist humor, and although this could be described as the darkest, most cynical view of the modern world on this list, I thoroughly enjoyed it for the sake of its individuality. Ultimately, I am a big supporter of art doing anything it can to get your attention. This essentially, is an ayahuasca trip version of a deeply cutting satire. So, when I see DJ Fred Durst sweating profusely, looking like in addition to mixing, all he is doing is planning an escape route, I am overjoyed. The often too-weird-to-not-avert-your-eyes interview style from The Eric Andre Show continues, but the out of the studio segments become more apt and timely than its predecessor. My favorites also include a #unboxing video of a coffin (which I would not recommend for the squeamish), Ann Coulter’s interview (about as interesting as you’d expect), the Vape-A-Wish foundation, and random shots of people freaking out so much in the audience that their heads explode. Long story short, buckle the hell up and have fun with this show. These are just a couple of things that I immensely enjoyed in the past year. The takeaway from this post should be to just keep surrounding yourself with things that make you happy in the new year to come (even if they are deeply, deeply weird and unsettling). Jordan Young Jordan graduated in 2009 from Susquehanna University with a degree in Creative Writing and Film Studies where he met his wife. In spite of God's will, he published his first book PESTS with Lloyd Kaufman; the CEO of the independent stalwart Troma Entertainment. You can see him being snarky and cynical on Twitter and Instagram @settlingstatic , and you can find him being deeply, deeply nerdy on Reddit @SkywardJordan. #Newsletter #Article #JordanYoung #Happiness #TheSloppyBoys #TheFavourite #Mostly4Millenials #YouTubesManEatingFoodChannel

Here on Cookin' w/ Quentin, Mike Burdge, Jack Kolodziejski and Robby Anderson (as well as the occasional lucky guest) tackle the filmography of Quentin Tarantino, along the way stopping to develop some thematically inspired food for each installment. This time around it's the 1993 Tony Scott joint, True Romance, based on an early screenplay Tarantino sold in order to finance his debut, Reservoir Dogs. The boys are joined by fellow Elvis lover, Tim Kelly, and proceed to break into the idea of Tarantino's eccentricities through another director's eyes, as well as the nature of good and bad when it comes to some of QT's lesser discussed characters. Check out our recipe video for the episode based on Gary Oldman's movie stealing scene: (See full recipe for the True Romance inspired (So Cool) Vegan Egg Rolls, as well as the sauces and vegan lo mein, at our Vimeo page.) Check out the episode: Listen on SoundCloud #Newsletter #Podcasts #Food #Tarantino #QuentinTarantino #CookinwQuentin #TrueRomance #Recipe #Video #MikeBurdge #JackKolodziejski #RobertAnderson #TimKelly #EggRolls #TonyScott

The bois went out into the dangerous world of the Transformers Expanded Universe, and they're good buddy Jeremy Kolodziejski went along for the ride. Hear what they have to say about the latest installment into this loathsome, desperate franchise, and how things might be looking a little up with the addition of charm and heart into the root of characters. Check it out: Listen on SoundCloud #Newsletter #Podcasts #HotTakes #Robots #Transformers #MichaelBay #Bumblebee #Sequel #Prequel #January2019 #JackKolodziejski #RobertAnderson #JeremyKolodziejski

Host Mike Burdge sits down to discuss with a glass of egg nog with bourbon, and a glorious cheese pizza, the true meaning of Christmas and the Holiday season by reminiscing about the classic Dr. Seuss tale, How the Grinch Stole Christmas , its 1966 cartoon adaptation, and the Ron Howard remake starring Jim Carrey. Subjects of loneliness, cheerful banter, being merry, gift giving and traveling ensue, as our precious host ponders what it is that makes the holiday season so divisive when talking about Die Hard ? Check it out: Listen on SoundCloud #Newsletter #Podcasts #Overdrinkers #TheGrinch #MikeBurdge #EggNog #Bourbon #Pizza #HowtheGrinchStoleChristmas #JimCarrey #DrSeuss #Animation #RonHoward

Dem bois Jack and Robby get at it yet again in the latest installment in the HOT TAKES franchise! This time, our lovable heroes return from their theater going adventures where they watched the eagerly awaited, animated, multi-verse showcase that is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse . We all know by now that Story Screen is loaded with big Spidey-Fans, so just how good is this thing and when are they gonna make another one??? Check it out: Listen on SoundCloud #Newsletter #Podcasts #SpiderMan #IntotheSpiderVerse #HotTakes #Animation #NicCage #JackKolodziejski #RobertAnderson #Robby #Music #DarksideRecords

Resident N3RD5 Robby and Jack just played through the latest release from Playdead, Inside . They'd like to talk about it, and you can listen! Check it out: Listen on SoundCloud #Newsletter #Podcasts #TalkingSimulator #JackKolodziejski #RobertAnderson #Inside #Playdead #Limbo #Gaming #VideoGames

Mike Burdge and Robby Anderson sit down to discuss the junior effort of Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy , and the crazy sexual politics that may or may not have been aggressively ahead of the curve for the time. They also talk about his earlier career of breaking into the Hollywood system with heart, talent, and dick jokes, while drinking way, way, WAY too much whiskey. Enjoy! Check it out: Listen on SoundCloud LINKS: Andrew Rouse Ceramics Denning's Point Distillery #Newsletter #Podcasts #Overdrinkers #ChasingAmy #Whiskey #Timer #MikeBurdge #RobertAnderson #KevinSmith

Jack and Robby are joined by guest Diana DiMuro to talk all about Steve McQueen's latest venture into more populace, pulpy content, with his deadly violent and extremely dramatic heist-revenge flick, Widows. Check it out: Listen on SoundCloud #Newsletter #Podcasts #HotTakes #Widows #SteveMcQueen #Heist #Revenge #JackKolodziejski #RobertAnderson #DianaDiMuro #ViolaDavis #LiamNeeson