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TANK GIRL Kicks off the ‘Reel Late at the Tivoli’ Midnight Series this Weekend
After a lengthy hiatus, the Tivoli Theater’s Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight series is back!
Things kick off this weekend (May 3rd and 4th) with the 1995 sci-fi comedy TANK GIRL based on the late-80’s British comic book originally created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlitt.
This weekend’s Midnight show is sponsored by Star Clipper Comics and they are bringing St. Louis native and comic book artist Jim Mahfood to the Tivoli to speak. Jim is the creator of the comic book series Grrl Scouts as well as his strip Stupid Comics and is an illustrator on the current Tank Girl Comic Book.
TANK GIRL is the story of a futuristic feminist superhero and her fight to preserve the environment against an evil government bureaucracy. The action is set in the year 2033, after an ecological disaster of drought and pollution has ravaged the countryside, and water is scarce. Tank Girl (Lori Petty) is a sassy punker who has her own vintage tank in tow, along with other high-tech weapons. Her mutant squatter friends including Jet Girl (Naomi Watts), join her defying the evil empire that sells water at extortionist prices. Genetic mutant warriors recite beat poetry. And watch Malcom MacDowell as the chief of the Department of Water and Power gives his best Alec DeLarge leer. If you expect to follow a plot here, you miss the movie. It’s about babes, dancing, defiance and motorized vehicles. Pedophiles, Dancers, Orgies, Decadence, Greed and Ice-T as a terrorist kangaroo are all foiled by irreverent punks in stolen hardware. And it’s got a heroine who claims that pain makes her wet! Why would you want to miss that?!?!?
Admission is only EIGHT BUCKS!
The Tivoli is located at 6350 Delmar in The Loop. Visit Landmark’s The Tivoli’s website HERE
Here’s the rest of the Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight schedule for the next couple of months:
May 10-11 BACK TO THE FUTURE
May 17-18 WILLOW
May 24-25 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
May 31-June 1 A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
June 7-8 BRAZIL (European Cut)
June 14-15 CASABLANCA
June 21-22 BATMAN (1989)
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