Thursday July 29, 2010

This week at Black Pearl Poetry Tempe Thursday:

Music to chill to, come in, text your friends and tell them to come out.

OPEN MIC- Your mic, Your rules. Come share your poems (it is still national poetry month), rhymes, songs, lyrics, stories, whatever ya got!

ASU SunDevil Feature- Your ASU Sun Devil Slam Team is BACK and made it to the semifinals at Collegiate National Poetry Slam, finishing 9th in the nation!

So you can see what they did to rock the mic in Boston, PATRICK, KATE, and DISHA are all featuring this Thursday night at Black Pearl Poetry showcasing the incredible pieces they performed at Collegiate Nationals!

Bring friends, bring money, bring poems, bring smiles!

And Ed Mabrey will be back in the building hosting this week!

Let's have some fun!

Thursday July 29 - Movie Mashterpiece Theatre – Vengeance of the Zombies (7pm) $9

The Phoenix National Comedy Theatre tackles another obscure B-Movie, this time the Spanish gem Vengeance of the Zombies (1972) a la Mystery Science Theater 3000 in a mix of improvisation, comedy and a really bad movie. Vengeance of the Zombies offers a triple threat performance by Paul Naschy (King of Spanish Horror) as a Hindu mystic, his evil brother and the Devil himself. Zombies, satanic voodoo rituals and gruesome killings combine to make Vengeance of the Zombies a bizarre ride in the best horror tradition, a film that defines the term "euro-cult" as few other films can. Reportedly, practitioners of the black arts have found hidden meanings in the film that transcend the picture's story-telling plotting, making the impact of Vengeance of the Zombies that much more intense--and frightful.. Laughs galore will ensue as the National Comedy Theatre troupe performs a live accompaniment to this b-movie schlock.

http://www.nctphoenix.com/

School’s out and what better way to “beat the heat” than to join the Summer Movie Madness at MADCAP Theaters, starting June 2 through August 6. Families can purchase a 10 week pass to see G and PG rated films for just $7.00 or pay $2.00 for individual screenings. This is also a great field trip for camps, daycares, schools, and groups. 

The first theatrical film from the popular Nickelodeon TV series became the surprise hit of the 1998 holiday box-office crunch, trouncing the highly competitive kids market. The key ingredient to the Rugrats' success is the writing. Venturing into their first theatrical movie, the pals--including the intrepid diaper-wearing Tommy Pickles, the nervous Chuckie, the twins Lil and Phil, and the wonderfully prissy Angelica--garble English into funny prose ("I want those fugitives back in custard-y!") and use movie references in their fantasy life. The opening here is a dead-on spoof of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The big news for the movie is that Tommy gets a new baby brother, named Dylan (or Dil for short). The rest of the film has no real plot but is a series of adventures as the clan gets lost in the forest riding an inventive Reptar wagon that is the '90s equivalent of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Parents search for the kids, the kids learn new lessons, everyone goes home happy. The Rugrats Movie is not as wildly appealing as A Bug's Life but is far goofier and wackier with its animation. There's also a tremendous sense of joy that is often missing from cartoons these days, and the songs used in the film-- from such diverse musicians as Busta Rhymes, Iggy Pop, Lisa Loeb, Lou Rawls, Beck, and Devo--add to the fun. It's an acquired taste, but the creators' first efforts to take the 10-minute TV sketches into an 80-minute feature pay off.