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ARE YOU READY FOR KAIJUNE?!

We kicked things off last night with the absolute classic Alligator and tonight we show Escaflowne. Check our calendar for the rest of the KaiJune schedule 🫡
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🌈 NEXT SUNDAY KAIJUNE CONTINUES IN A VERY GAY WAY

ITS SUNGAYS TIME!

👾From Greek and q***r filmmaker Panos H. Koutras comes the campiest movie you’ve never seen. A giant piece of Moussaka is terrorizing the streets of Athens in the year 2000. and yes, we do mean the Greek dish. I can’t be monster piece that can’t be beat. This is a silly out of this world cult film from Europe.

KaiJune is our month long summer series celebrating the Kaiju Film in all its forms.

🎟️ tickets are available now!

See y’all at the store!
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have you seen our new shelves? they rule and they fold and you can fit so many people inside of them ( for size)

come see them today!
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💚 BETTER LATE THAN NEVER- MEET OUR VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH FOR MAY, SAM!

💅 .jpeg is an irreplaceable part of our clerks team, and just one of our favorite people in general- I mean just take a look at that list of favorite flicks and tell me that’s not someone you want to know. When they aren’t at the store you can find her taking photos, being outside, and dancing around town

🫡 stop by today and check out one of her favorites! May I suggest Species?

Animondays meets KAIJUNE 🤝
Depressed high school student, Hitomi Kanzaki wishes to disappear from the world. Unexpectedly her dreams magically come true when she is magically transported to another world called Gaea, where a battle for world domination is full on ragin’. This abbreviated version of the animated series The Vision of Escaflowne is a much darker reimagination featuring music from acclaimed Japanese composer Yoko Kanno. Infusing depression & suicidal thoughts with fantastical dragon beasts & consuming flesh armour in this epic allegory drenched in teenage angst.

Whether you are a fan of the series or a newcomer enjoy us for an evening of brutal mecha battles & gorgeous animation. Who knows maybe you’ll even meet your new trauma buddy!

🐊🧌WELCOME TO KAIJUNE🧌🐊

🌋KaiJune is our month long summer series celebrating the Kaiju Film in all its forms. Literally meaning “strange beast” this subgenre of monster films originated in Japan but has global influence.

To be a Kaiju film you gotta have:
💥creatures of varying origins and sizes
💥attacking cities or towns
💥fighting the army or townsfolk
💥often times with a political or social message

Celebrate big guys destroying cities all month long at We Luv Video

🎟️ tickets for everything are available now!

💚 NEXT SUNDAY JUNE 7th- KAIJUNE BEGINS!

👾Instead of going directly to the Japanese legends like Godzilla, Mothra, or even Gamera, this Kaijune kicks off in the streets of Chicago. Everyone knows the urban legend: a child is given a baby alligator as a pet, it gets flushed down a toilet, and then it grows to a hulking, monstrous size, terrorizing the sewer system and beyond. Lewis Teague (Cat’s Eye, Cujo) uses this as a launchpad for 1980’s Alligator, a creature feature that takes the classic elements of Eastern cinema and infuses them with an inimitably American flavor.

🐊Alligator has so much going for it, not the least of which is a gator the size of a bus. Penned by the legendary John Sayles between his work on Joe Dante’s Piranha and The Howling, he takes a potentially absurd concept and grounds it with realistic, human characters. Starring the great Robert Forster (Twin Peaks: The Return, Jackie Brown) as a detective whose partners seem to have trouble staying alive alongside the woefully underappreciated Robin Riker (Get a Life) as a herpetologist whose childhood alligator (Ramon!) just happens to be the beast wreaking havoc, they join forces to hunt down the voracious reptile before it figures out how to ascend to street level.

Don’t miss the monster madness when Ramon’s rampage hits the screen on June 7th! KaiJune is our month long summer series celebrating the Kaiju Film in all its forms.

🎟️ tickets are available now!

See y’all at the store!
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