Metro Cinema Society: Turkey Shoot

Turkey Shoot

Metro Cinema's monthly celebration of aesthetically challenged films. Hosted by Dave Clarke and Jeff Page (with special sarcastic guests).

Turkey Shoot: Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000

Director: Roger Christian

USA 2000, 118 min, Video

Sep 22 (2011) @ 9:30pm

A couple of years ago, Turkey Shoot honoured John Travolta's ego-driven version of L. Ron Hubbard's sci-fi novel, but mentally blocked it out. They remember cavemen piloting spaceships and Forest Whitaker as the Cowardly Lion with dreadlocks. Dave Clarke knows... view more

Turkey Shoot: Barbarella

Director: Roger Vadim

USA 1968, 98 min, Digital

Oct 13 (2011) @ 9:30pm

Before she was an Oscar winning actress, an anti-war activist, a billionaire media-mogul’s wife, and an aerobics dominatrix, Jane Fonda was Barbarella! Here’s IMDB’s synopsis: “In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the... view more

Turkey Shoot: The Happening

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

USA 2008, 92 min, Digital

Nov 24 (2011) @ 9:30pm

A dozen years after The Sixth Sense had that creepy little kid seeing dead people with (SPOILER ALERT!) hair pieces, M. Night Shyamalan has proven himself among the most confusing and boring filmmakers of his generation. He is at his... view more

Turkey Shoot: Santa Claus: The Movie

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

USA 1985, 107 min, Digital

Dec 22 (2011) @ 9:30pm

We've cooked up a big turkey for the holiday season. Dudley Moore - sometime between the comic classic _Arthur_ and the embarrassing _Blame it on the Bellboy_- dons the pointy hat and green tights to star as Patch the Elf.... view more

Turkey Shoot: Road House

Director: Rowdy Herrington

USA 1989, 114 min, Digital

Jan 19 @ 9:30pm

Patrick Swayze is a bouncer. And a dancer. A dirty dancer. Wait, sorry, wrong movie. Swayze is a bouncer. Fighting a communist invasion in small town Colorado. Nope, not that one either. Swayze is a bouncer. In the Edmonton Mall!... view more

Turkey Shoot: Cool as Ice

Director: David Kellogg

USA 1991, 91 min, Digital

Feb 23 @ 9:30pm

When we ponder Vanilla Ice, we don’t think of James Dean. What the hell is he doing, then, in a remake of _Rebel Without a Cause_, the classic tale of teenage alienation and method acting? The original thrilled us with... view more