"Mr. Melvin" Combines Two Troma Classics Into One Strange Film

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Published on Thursday, 06 November 2025 15:13

Written by Brad Balfour

One of the strangest cult classics is about to get stranger. Make that TWO of the strangest cult classics! Touted as the true vision of shlock-auteur Lloyd Kaufman, Mr. Melvin takes The Toxic Avenger Parts II & III and combines them into one new film. The idyllic, crime-free tranquility of the Tromaville citizens’ lives is shattered when Apocalypse Inc. settles down in their town. To make matters worse, the corrupt corporation has poisoned Tromaville’s only hero, the Toxic Avenger, against them. However, if Toxie can confront the monster he’s become, it may not be too late to save his town—and his soul. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Troma President and Co-founder Lloyd Kaufman.

A fixture of video stores and dark basements, the films of Troma Entertainment has equally thrilled and repulsed audiences for decades, with titles including Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Surf Nazis Must Die, Poultrygeist, and their post-modern prometheus, The Toxic Avenger, which also recently had a remake starring Peter Dinklage.

To learn more, go to: https://movingimage.org/event/mr-melvin/

Mr. Melvin with Lloyd Kaufman in person
November 7, 2025

Redstone Theater, Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Ave
Astoria, NY 1110

Metrograph Presents Leaving the Factory: Morrissey After Warhol

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Published on Thursday, 21 August 2025 21:59

Written by Brad Balfour

Paul Morrissey (1938 - 2024) shocked, delighted, and disgusted audiences for decades with his “Warhol” films, and leaving a mark as a reactionary auteur. Now the Metrograph theater (7 Ludlow Street) pays tribute to the films made in the 1980s and distancing himself from the Warhol brand. 

Leaving the Factory: Morrissey After Warhol runs September 5th to the 14th (with select encore screenings) featuring five films, all screened in 35mm. These are rare and raw films such as Forty Deuce (starring a young Kevin Bacon) based on Alan Bowne’s off-Broadway play about desperate hustlers. The anti-biopic Beethoven’s Nephew, paints a less than flattering picture of the legendary composer in this shot in Vienna period piece. Madame Wang’s is a satire of 1980s LA as an agent of the East German Stasi becomes mired with Los Angeles squatters. Mixed Blood is a an East Village turf war as gangs battle across Alphabet City. Spike of Bensonhurst is about a down on his luck boxer who’s run out of his neighborhood for chasing after the daughter of mafia boss Ernest Borgnine and now hides out in the Red Hook slums. 

To learn more, go to: https://metrograph.com/category/morrissey/

Leaving the Factory: Morrissey After Warhol
September 5 - 14, 2025 with select encore screenings to follow

Metrograph
7 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002

"Women In Action" Explode Onto the Screen at Film Forum

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Published on Friday, 25 July 2025 16:02

Written by Brad Balfour

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and your regular movie theaters hath no films as good as what the Film Forum has in store for you. Women in Action is a slate of 40 films being shown at the Film Forum (209 W. Houston Street), from August 15th to September 4th featuring cinema’s most bad-ass leading ladies from around the world. See Maggie Cheung, Gena Rowlands, Michelle Yeoh, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Tamara Dobson, Faye Dunaway, Jodie Foster, Uma Thurman, and more cleave a swath of destruction across the silver screen.

The series includes two special days with a particular focus. On Saturday, August 30, there will be a special all day tribute to Pam Grier with screenings of The Big Doll House, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Jackie Brown. Film Critic and author Odie Henderson (Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras, from Abrams Press) will introduce The Big Doll House and Coffy. Silent Women in Action, a program celebrating the great female action stars of early silent serials, including Pearl White (The Perils of Pauline, 1914), Ruth Roland (The Timber Queen, 1922), and Helen Holmes and Helen Gibson (successive stars of The Hazards of Helen, 1914-1917), will run on Monday, August 25.

Other films being screened include:

• Irma Vep
• Gloria 
• Lady Snowblood
• Alien
• Aliens
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• Bonnie and Clyde
• La Femme Nikita
• Ms. 45

And more!

To learn more, go to: https://filmforum.org/

Women In Action
August 15 - September 4, 2025

Film Forum
209 West Houston Street
New York, NY 10014