See Dark Star in Denver tonight with your host, The A.V. Club’s Jason Heller

See Dark Star in Denver tonight with your host, The A.V. Club’s Jason Heller

Howdy. Senior writer Jason Heller here. As previously reported, The A.V. Club—in conjunction with the world-famous Alamo Drafthouse Denver—has launched Science Friction, a sci-fi film series curated and hosted by yours truly. Last week we kicked the series off with Videodrome, and it was the kind of rousing, feel-good experience that only a pitch-black room full of strangers watching a David Cronenberg movie can succeed at fostering. Even better, everyone kept their hot dogs down.

We’re following that up tonight with my second Science Friction selection: John Carpenter’s 1974 debut, Dark Star. My co-host will be fantasy author and film blogger Jesse Bullington; he and I will make with some cursory commentary and dumb jokes before letting Dark Star roll in all its low-budget, laid-back, anxiety-ridden glory. What more could you ask for from a science fiction film? Swashbuckling adventure? Cosmic majesty? Um, how about a beach-ball alien?

 
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