Coming Attractions: Movies You Need to See This Weekend

Love Lies Bleeding & Leprechaun

Happy St. Patrick’s Day Weekend, everyone. After you’ve caught your groceries for the next fiscal year and drank your weight in green beer, you can find these incredible movie offerings at a theater near you!


LOVE LIES BLEEDING

There’s nothing more exciting than a good love story—except for a good love story drenched in crime pulp, basked in sun-faded neon, and starring Kristen Stewart.

Coming from your friends at A24, “Love Lies Bleeding” tells the story of Lou (Kristen Stewart), a small-time gym manager and legacy criminal, who falls in love with Jackie (Katy O’Brian), a new-to-town bodybuilder. The pair become entangled, involved, and tumble headlong into a world of sex, guns, and murder with only each other to hold on to. With gun-totting turns from a mullet-wearing Dave Franco and some all-timer glowering from cinema’s greatest granite face, Ed Harris, this new queer entry in the sweat-drenched canon of sexy crime duos stands well within its lineage of “Natural Born Killers” to “Thelma & Louise”.

Directed and Co-Written by Rose Glass (who also wrote and directed 2019’s fantastic psychological horror film “St. Maude”), “Love Lies Bleeding” is the kind of cinema that audiences have been hungry for: explosive, adult, and sure to send audience goers on a wild, sexy ride.

“Love Lies Bleeding” is playing at The Broad Theater and The Prytania Theater Canal Place NOW.

LEPRECHAUN

The preeminent St. Patrick’s Day staple “Leprechaun” will be back in theaters for one night only, Monday, March 16, at The Broad Theater. Hosted by Screamfest NOLA and Timecode NOLA, this retrospective screening will bring Warwick Davis’ maniacal creation back to the big screen and include a Q&A with Writer/Director Mark Jones.

The Irish Gold standard of the post-slasher era of American cinema, this gory comedy was the perfect gateway horror for an entire generation of video store perusing 90’s kids. Starring the aforementioned cinema legend Warwick Davis (RETURN OF THE JEDI, WILLOW, HARRY POTTER), this film follows a sadistic Leprechaun as he hunts down his lost gold from a hapless American family. A cavalcade of ridiculous deaths ensues (including a delightful pogo stick kill), with Davis having the time of his life creating an iconic horror monster in the tradition of Freddy Kreuger and Jason Voorhes.

Starring Jennifer Aniston in a role that shows the movie star chops she would make famous later that decade, “Leprechaun” is an excellent night of schlock to ring in the feast of St. Patrick.

Just remind the kids to keep their hands off that Leprechaun’s gold.

You’ll be glad you did.

 

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