Whiskey Flicks

On Friday, June 22 we drank bourbon and moonshine from this episode’s whiskey donor, the legendary Kings County Distillery. We talked about the history of NY, politics, and the geography of lower Manhattan. Plus, an on-premises interview with Colin Spoelman, owner of Kings County Distillery. The movie is Gangs of New York, a part of … Continue reading "GANGS OF NEW YORK, Kings County Distillery, and an Altercation on the Streets"

On Saturday, May 26 (how’s that for turnaround?), the usual Whiskey Flicks folks, along with special guests Jody Christopherson, Kyra Sims and Rich Kass, hit IFC for John Waters’ infamous 1972 midnight classic PINK FLAMINGOS. Our tolerance for filth was put to the test and we emerged as better humans. Our featured whiskey was a … Continue reading "PINK FLAMINGOS – the filthiest movie alive!"

This episode contains the post-show discussion from our Dazed and Confused outing. Then, on Saturday, April 28 we returned to Nitehawk Cinema for the runner-up in their Marijuana Madness Tournament, David Cronenberg’s Videodrome. But things took an unexpected turn when the tall, leather-jacket clad, confidence-exuding director of the neighboring midnight movie appeared in the lobby, … Continue reading "2Dazed2Confused: our 2nd week of mary j madness turned into MAYHEM!"

On April 21 (the day after 4/20, but whatever, man) we took Whiskey Flicks to Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg for the first time to cover Richard Linklater’s 1993 coming-of-age classic Dazed and Confused, the winner of their Marijuana Madness Tournament. This episode consists entirely of our pre-show, greenery-fueled discussion. The next episode will cover our … Continue reading "Dazed and Confused (Part 1) drugs, drug laws, bullying, freedom, and Matthew McConaughey’s pink pants"

On Friday, March 23, we returned to the IFC Center for a midnight screening of Soylent Green, the 1972 dystopia thriller directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson in his final film. We recorded our pre-show discussion at the now-shuttered El Quijote, a 90 year old Spanish restaurant in the ground floor … Continue reading "Soylent Green: the passing of a Hollywood legend and a Chelsea landmark"

This is the first edition of “Whiskey Sips,” our happy hour edition of Whiskey Flicks, where we pod about a “before bedtime” screening we just couldn’t resist. On March 16, with a flask of Hudson Whiskey, we braved Friday evening in Times Square to ascend about thirty escalators at AMC Empire on 42nd Street for … Continue reading "WHISKEY SIPS #1: Detective Chinatown 2 – It’s a ticking clock serial killer thriller but it also has slapstick and whacky chase scenes!"

Friday March 2nd found Mike, Phlip and me at Videology in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the 1995 camp classic Showgirls. While Jack was off skiing or something, we were lucky to be joined by special guest Hadley Todoran. Videology provided us with our featured whiskies for the night, in form of beer and shot combos. I … Continue reading "Showgirls: a Las Vegas masterpiece, with all the ice cubes you can handle, darlin’."

January 28, well past midnight, we gathered outside IFC Center with guest pal Eric Rice to discuss Eraserhead, David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, in which pretty much every trope he would employ over the next 40 years was already in some way on display. Our featured whiskey was Smuggler’s Notch Distillery’s Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Also, … Continue reading "Eraserhead – David Lynch’s debut nightmare of domesticity."

On Friday, January 5, we braved (or at least less-wussed) the single-digit temperatures of the “bomb cyclone” to make our last visit to the Landmark Sunshine Cinema (which closed last weekend as of this writing) for Walter Hill’s 1979 NYC gangs-in-costumes classic The Warriors. In this episode we talk about the movie, the novel by Sol Yurick, … Continue reading "The Warriors – it’s a long, hard ride from the Bronx to Coney Island. And goodbye to the Landmark Sunshine…"

In early October we returned to the Landmark Sunshine for Tommy Wiseau’s modern classic romantic psychological drama The Room. There we encountered passionate fans, airborne spoons, and Tommy himself, whose intro Q&A we captured in its entirety. For the movie, I drank Spirits of Old Bennington Kilted Wheat Whiskey, a bottle of which I purchased … Continue reading "Footballs, new dresses, future wives and spoons: Tommy Wiseau’s The Room."