Tuesday, June 30, 2009

AKIRA SCREENING CANCELLED!

First, the rain forces us, reluctantly, to cancel Weird Science and now we have to cancel Akira this coming Monday due to a scheduling conflict with Domy Books. It's not our fault! We promise.

Sorry folks. We wish we could show it but we can't... But there is hope...

In September we're scheduling the second usage of the patented Brand X GrabSack™, a Russian Roulette of sorts where we give a number of films, that get cancelled for whatever reason, a possible screening in a game of chance against a number of films that you might not want to see.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Who is Cyboman?! Will he appear this coming Monday?! What does he want, and why does he have such awful taste in movies?!

As many of you know, though I'm sure most of you don't, Brand X has been hounded by a mysterious individual for months to show not so great movies.

The initial demand was that we present a double feature in only a two hour span. This, we accomplished by showing The Terror of Tiny Town and Electric Dragon 80.000 V. During that particular screening, our signal was interrupted with a bunch of static and what sounded like monkey screeching.

The second film that was forced upon us was Galaxina *shudder*... Just prior to the feature presentation, our signal was again hijacked; a feat that we don't understand since our signal is carried over a 20 foot S-Video cable. What came over the signal was someone's obviously amateur chroma key ability set to an equally bad tape copy of Also Sprach Zarathustra. This time, though, a set of hairy hands slowly brought, into view, a very bizarre drawing, stating "Cyboman Cinema", accompanied by a banana and more monkey noises... We've begun to suspect that our pirate is a very intelligent chimpanzee; either that, or a really stupid human.

Most recently, a coin-op cabinet was sent to one Brand X's secret locations (the full incident report can be read here). We ultimately deduced that it was being asked of us to show a low budget movie from the 80s called Future Kill. Though there was no actual request, we're curious to see if any further clues will be given to us, so we're showing the film this coming Monday, June 22nd.

If you're as curious are we, please feel free to come out and endure with us. Perhaps... Just perhaps our intruder will show his face.

June 22nd - 8:30pm
Free Admission
Domy Books (Cafe Brasil Back Patio)
1709 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77098
713-523-3669

Not surprising... there seems to be a general dislike of this movie. So much, in fact, that a trailer can hardly be found online. If you want to watch one, click here, if you dare.

Hey... the H.R. Giger art sucked us in too...

Thursday, June 11, 2009

The Transformers You Remember as a Child

Yes, that's right folks... We're showing the original Transformers: The Movie to uncelebrate the release of yet another cinematic abortion from Micheal Bay (what an ass). What's that?! You like this new crap? Well... apparently you just don't remember the Transformers that we remember. You should brush up.

Come out this coming Monday, June 15th for our presentation of Transformers: The Movie replete with that special Brand X preshow™ that you know and love.

...By the way... This Transformers movie... It has Orson Wells in it. Can Micheal Bay give you that? Didn't think so.



Domy Books
1709 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77098
713-523-3669

Thursday, May 7, 2009

She blinded me with... VIOLENCE!

So... in case you missed out on Monday's showing of Magnum Force, we're making May a month of violence. We had to leave out Robocop, since we've already shown it. I'm sure someone else will show it. Anyway... here's what's on the menu for the rest of the month.

Master of the Flying Guillotine (Kinda weird, bloody Kung-Fu flick)


Scanners (Classic Cronenberg)


Total Recall (like Robocop, it was directed by Paul Verhoeven)

Friday, April 10, 2009

A MONTH OF MUSIC!

So we've devoted the entire month of April to films involving music. No... Just having a soundtrack doesn't count.

Last Monday, we presented Quadraphenia. Here's what's in store for the rest of the month.

Head - April 13th


Stop Making Sense - April 20th


Stunt Rock - April 27th


All of this and then a month of violence @ DOMY BOOKS!!

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Isle of the Damned is still on,.. for now.

I received word on Friday that another film had been booked by the owner of Domy books, despite the fact that we've been running films there for over 2 years (yes, it's been that long). This posed a risk to our showing of Isle of the Damned that night. Since I'd been setting up this particular showing with Isle's director, Mark Colegrove since around December, I felt this couldn't really stand. We ended up having to push the films start time back an hour, but as of now, we're still on.

If you love the Italian horror greats, you'll love this film. Come out and support it. It's fucking hilarious.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Plenty of Waka-chi-waka music to go around as Black History Month Continues!

Come get hit by a truck! Issac Hayes is Truck Turner, this Monday at Domy Books!
Monday, February 16th 2009


And don't forget the King of Cartoons... er... I mean Dracula's soul brother. Blacula!
Monday, February 23rd 2009