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White Wall Cinema: VHS FEST NIGHT 2 – COMMANDO
June 21 @ 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Join us for VHS Fest, a special three night film festival celebrating films that represent the classic era of VHS video. Each night you can take a stroll through our life size VHS rental store, indulge in some retro gaming, have a drink in our beer garden (with our VHS era playlist) and then enjoy a cult classic film from the era on the big screen. Tickets for individual nights are available as well as a discounted festival ticket for all three nights (nights two and three revealed soon).
Night Two: When ex United States Army Special Forces colonel John Matrix (Schwarzenegger obviously) has his now peaceful life interrupted by the kidnap of his young daughter Jenny (Alyssa Milano – Charmed), he must race against the clock to rescue her from a band of classic 80s bad guys that includes Dan Hedaya (Blood Simple, Clueless, The Usual Suspects, Mulholland Drive), Vernon Wells (Mad Max 2, Weird Science), David Patrick Kelly (The Warriors, Twin Peaks), & Bill Duke (Predator, Menace II Society) with the unwitting help of innocent bystander Cindy (Rae Dawn Chong – The Color Purple).
But hey, who cares about the plot? All in all it’s a fabulous excuse for Arnie to charge around the roads and shopping malls of upstate California as well as the Island hide-out of a Latin American dictator, reeking havoc with large guns (both the human flesh kind and the mechanical kind) whilst uttering ludicrously funny quips. Extremely dated and extremely entertaining this is the epitome of the non franchise 80s actioner that was such a staple of the era.
Helmed by cult director Mark Lester (The Class of 1984, Firestarter, the latter being THE key influence on Stranger Things) and during Arnie’s unprecedented hot streak sandwiched between The Terminator and Predator, Commando is everything you could want from an Arnie movie and more. With endless one liners, a penchant for 80s action movie outfits (bicep revealing vests, denim dungarees, camo, chainmail & leather trousers) and explosions bigger than Arnie’s pecs, this is the perfect Saturday night VHS Fest choice. Let’s party!
- DOORS: 6.30pm*
- START TIME: 6.30pm*
- LAST ADMISSION BEFORE FILM: 7.55pm
- FILM RUN TIME: 90 mins
- CERT: 18
