Honorary Mention: Short Round

Gremlins, Howard the Duck, and Troll 2 -- how does Midnights for Maniacs manage to put together such incredibly pleasing triple-features? The "Vertically Challenged Monsters" start unspooling at 7:30 on May 25th at the Castro, and conclude sometime after midnight (so don't count on Muni to get home -- as if you ever do). Tickets are ten bucks and you get to see all three -- that's an absolute steal for the wealth of cultural expertise you'll gain from the experience.

Gremlins you're surely familiar with; it's incredibly rare to find a screening of the disastrous Howard; and Troll 2 -- well, there simply aren't words for how appallingly, deliciously incompetent the film is. (Hint: they forgot to put any trolls in it.) The night is curated by Jesse Ficks, beloved non-homosexual queer, who's slowly working his way back into our good graces after subjecting us to Skatetown USA.