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“Anyone who can see the humor in casting Alanis Morissette as God is alright in our book. Come out to Lake Creek Easter weekend for some light sacrilege and a couple of beers as we screen Kevin Smith’s Dogma.

Would you believe the last living descendent of Jesus is a woman working at an abortion clinic? And that she’s been sent on a holy mission with two minor characters from Clerks and Mallrats as her guides?

Dogma proved to be highly controversial even before its release. Miramax Pictures, owned by Disney, financed the film, but several weeks before Dogma’s world premier at the Cannes Film Festival, they announced they would not release the picture and sold it to another distributor, Lions Gate Films.”

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Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek is proud to present: Dogma for a Special Midnight Screening

Imaginative theology and a bigger than usual budget make Kevin Smith’s fourth film a kind of post-Catholic fantasy that only a comic-book enthusiast of his caliber could dream up. The plot is set in motion by two banished angels, Loki (Matt Damon) and Bartleby (Ben Affleck). After a few millenia in Wisconsin, they’ve discovered a loophole in Catholic doctrine that would allow them back into heaven–but prove the fallibility of God and destroy the universe. Unaware of the peril, they make their way to New Jersey to receive a plenary indulgence. Meanwhile, God has dispatched a seraphim (Alan Rickman) to recruit lapsed-Catholic Bethany (Linda Fiorentino) to stop the angels. She finds help in muses, prophets (Jay and Silent Bob), and the forgotten 13th apostle, Rufus (Chris Rock). Before long, all hell breaks loose (literally), and God (Alanis Morrisette) has to put in an appearance of her own.

Starring: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Linda Fiorentino, Jason Mewes, Chris Rock, Alan Rickman, Jason Lee, Salma Hayek, Kevin Smith, Janeane Garofalo, and George Carlin.

Writer/director Stevan Mena has announced BRUTAL MASSACRE as the long-awaited follow-up to his well-reviewed slasher film MALEVOLENCE. Filmed this past winter in Pennsylvania, it’s a mockumentary about the making of independent horror films in the tradition of THIS IS SPINAL TAP. Producer Tom Bambard sent along the following synopsis: “Harry Penderecki, a once-heralded horror auteur, finds himself on the outside looking in a Hollywood. He hasn’t had a hit film in years and most in the industry, including his close friends, think he’s washed up. Harry is given one last chance to redeem himself with what could be his best—or last—picture. BRUTAL MASSACRE becomes just that, as the cast and crew find themselves battling one mishap after another, [and] the film’s audience become voyeurs as they look into the vicious world of independent filmmaking, watching Harry struggle to keep his sanity against overwhelming resistance.”