{"id":5318,"date":"2012-09-28T20:20:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T02:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:51:11","slug":"gnarly-beasts-tackle-ttc-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=5318","title":{"rendered":"Gnarly beasts tackle TTC tonight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Monsters of mysterious origin do their best to thwart humanity this <strong>Friday, September 28, 10 p.m.<\/strong>, when the <a title=\"Time Traveling Cinema @ Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/timetravelingcinema\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Time Traveling Cinema<\/strong><\/a> returns to <strong><a title=\"SoDo Theatre :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sodotheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SoDo Theatre<\/a>, 114 S. Neil St., Champaign, IL<\/strong>, with a twofer recalling the earliest days of the American drive-in! Join us for a vintage twin bill that played together in the late Fifties on outdoor screens across the land, the <strong>Texas<\/strong>-made independent programmers <strong>THE GIANT GILA MONSTER<\/strong> (1959) and <strong>THE KILLER SHREWS<\/strong> (1959), preceded by the final three episodes from Season 1 of the locally made Web series <a title=\"NINJA THE MISSION FORCE :: Dark Maze Studios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmaze.com\/ninjathemissionforce\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NINJA THE MISSION FORCE<\/strong><\/a> by <strong>Dark Maze Studios<\/strong> \u2013 featuring <strong>Charles Bronson<\/strong>, <strong>George A. Romero<\/strong> zombies, and stop-motion space dinosaurs, respectively \u2013 and local filmmaker <strong>Andrew Nygard<\/strong>\u2019s new short, a dry witted sci-fi comedy called <strong>THE GIANT COMMUNIST<\/strong>. We may even throw in classic B-movie trailers from the atomic era, too!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Come on downtown in the next hour or so as <a title=\"The Psychic Joker :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psychicjoker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Psychic Joker<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>C-U Confidential<\/strong> present the Time Traveling Cinema, a community micro-cinema concept set in a clean and safe environment, newly remodeled and sporting upgraded equipment for an enhanced movie experience!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>p.s.<\/em> Believe it or not, follow-ups to both <strong>GILA<\/strong> and <strong>SHREWS<\/strong> are lurking in the wings! Last fall, <a title=\"GILA! :: Official Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilamovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">low-budget schlock veteran <strong>Jim Wynorski<\/strong> filmed the remake <strong>GILA!<\/strong><\/a> in small town <strong>Indiana<\/strong> locations, while fellow B-stalwart and <strong>Decatur<\/strong> native <strong>Steve Latshaw<\/strong> teamed up with former <strong>DUKES OF HAZZARD<\/strong> co-stars <strong>John Schneider<\/strong> and <strong>James Best<\/strong> (who starred in the original <strong>SHREWS<\/strong>) to <a title=\"THE RETURN OF THE KILLER SHREWS :: Official Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.killershrewsmovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">produce a 50-years-later (!) sequel, <strong>THE RETURN OF THE KILLER SHREWS<\/strong><\/a>! Stranger things have happened, we guess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The Time Traveling Cinema (Art: The Psychic Joker)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog%20Art\/cu_timetraveling_block.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-U Confidential teams up with Psychic Joker Entertainment to present the not-so-lost retro movie gems of today and yesteryear with \u201cThe Time Traveling Cinema\u201d at SoDo Theatre in Champaign, Illinois! On September 28, 2012, we offer the animal kingdom a little more respect when THE GIANT GILA MONSTER and THE KILLER SHREWS claw their way to town, while THE GIANT COMMUNIST throws down crazy ideas with laser-sharp precision and NINJA THE MISSION FORCE finally reveals who will harness Ultimate Ninja Power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,13],"tags":[253,824,671,956,957,928],"class_list":["post-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-u-confidential-shows","category-public-events","tag-andrew-nygard","tag-ninja-the-mission-force","tag-the-giant-communist","tag-the-giant-gila-monster","tag-the-killer-shrews","tag-the-time-traveling-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}