Tape Freaks Presents: March's Mystery Movie!

  STILL SOLD OUT FOR ALL POSTED SHOWS. 

                                                                    BUT!!! 

If you arrive when doors open, there are always a handful of tickets available day of. (Thanks to the kind patrons who reach out to the Trylon to release their tickets when they find they cannot attend!) 

 ABOLISH FUCKING ICE. 

(Mutual aid suggestions below.)

This month's move theme: Wackiness, take us away!

Hints: This month's movie is a wacky, 80s Hong Kong/Taiwan, haunted-mall movie that defies description. This movie is also subtitled. The odds that anyone in attendance tonight has seen this movie before are slim, as it has a couple hundred fewer views logged on Letterboxd than Battle Heater!

Content Warnings: Light misogyny and fat phobia. We didn't get a chance to re-watch this month's film, so --> (If you would like more information on these warnings, or have concerns about other possible content, please feel free to reach out [Facebook message or info@TimMonsters.com] or even ask us at the theater. We want fun surprises for everyone!)

Mutual Aid Suggestion: Find a way to support a rent relief fund. In addition to donations, these mutual aid groups need help spreading the word to get the most support possible. If you have contacts outside of MN ask them to share links, share them with friends/family in religious groups, with people you know who organize bake sales, what have you. 

Everyone has their place in a resistance, every skill a way to be utilized.

When Available, Get Your Tickets Here: Tape Freaks presents: Mystery Movie @ the Trylon, 7pm $5 

Tape Freaks Presents: February's Mystery Movie!

 STILL SOLD OUT FOR ALL POSTED SHOWS. 

BUT!!! 

If you arrive when doors open, there are always a handful of tickets available day of. (Thanks to the kind patrons who reach out to the Trylon to release their tickets when they find they cannot attend!) 

And incase there's any question about how we feel:

 ABOLISH FUCKING ICE. 

(Mutual aid suggestions below.)

This month's move theme: Colette's Birthday Wildcard!

Hints: This month's movie is both an escape, and an illustration of how quickly and effectively community members with different skills and experiences can come together to defeat a common enemy. This is also a movie Tim and I tricked Izzi (my BFF who is no longer) into watching. She was FURIOUS and pretended to hate it until the very end when she involuntarily let out a genuine "AWWWWW!"

Content Warnings: Guns and gunfire. There are a couple scenes with guns and gunfire in tonight's movie. (If you would like more information on these warnings, or have concerns about other possible content, please feel free to reach out (through Facebook or info@TimMonsters.com) or even ask us at the theater. We want fun surprises for everyone!)

Mutual Aid Suggestion: If people are wondering how to get involved, or are in an area that isn't organized, or aren't terribly familiar with their neighbors, here are some suggested starting points. 

Donate Money if You're Able: There are lots of places to donate (some in the links below) but chances are, you're connected to someone in need of support. Take for instance this Tape Freaks regular and their person [since writing this, I've been informed by one of the Trylon volunteers who knows I'm face-blind, that BOTH of these lovely ppl are Tape Freaks regulars], Jeffery and Linden. They could use a boost towards their financial goal, and we're just the community to give it!

Defend 612: A staple starting point. Here you'll find resources, artwork to use/print, scheduled trainings, etc.

Will Tell Stories For Food (Naomi Kritzer's blog): This is a great starting point for less talked about areas including: how to push back on disinformation, how to contact your elected officials, how to write a letter to an editor, MN news sources to follow, how to be prepared for this to happen in your area, where to donate money, and so on. 

Neighbors Helping Neighbors - Twin Cities: This organization helps connect resources to needs. You can support them with time or donations, or you can utilize their services if you have a need!

Start Talking to Your Neighbors: If you don't know your neighbors, start getting to know them now. Start with reconnecting with neighbors you might have lost touch with and go from there. Maybe organize a hot beverage night [my neighbors recently did this with hot coco and cider, and optional boozy add-ins], a game night, a craft night, anything that gets people together and grows connections. From just that the needs of your direct community will start to reveal themselves, even if you never have to deal with what's happening here. 

Everyone has their place in a resistance, every skill a way to be utilized.

When Available, Get Your Tickets Here: Tape Freaks presents: Mystery Movie @ the Trylon, 7pm $5 

Tape Freaks Presents: January's Mystery Movie!

STILL SOLD OUT FOR ALL POSTED SHOWS. 

BUT!!! If you arrive when doors open, there are always a handful of tickets available day of. (Thanks to the kind patrons who reach out to the Trylon to release their tickets when they find they cannot attend!) So come early and try your luck if you missed tickets!  

This month's move theme: Totally normal movies.

Hints: This month's movie is a completely normal, straightforward, predictable, trope filled movie... for a parallel dimension I hesitate to imagine. To say things escalate quickly would inadvertently downplay the absolute unpredictability of this film. To say it's a gory slasher-adjacent movie would undercut the love-and-betrayal story the entire film is hinged upon. And although this month's movie is a foreign film, you can't really blame any of this film's unhingedness on cultural differences, because it really didn't travel far to get here. 

Content Warnings: Attempted SA, brief depictions of domestic violence, and misogyny sprinkled throughout. If you want more information on these warnings, or have concerns about other possible content, please feel free to reach out (through Facebook or info@TimMonsters.com) or even ask us at the theater. We want fun surprises for everyone!

Mutual Aid Suggestion: Start planning a food garden. When growing food, there's always room to grow more than you need, which gives you an opportunity to share your bounty! Don't have access to a yard? Look into community gardens you could utilize, start an herb garden on your kitchen counter, grow strawberries and peas on your patio, ask a friend/neighbor/etc with a neglected garden if you can revive their plot and split the bounty; the possibilities are more limitless than you might think.

When Available, Get Your Tickets Here: Tape Freaks presents: Mystery Movie @ the Trylon, 7pm $5 

Tape Freaks Presents: the 9:30pm Showing of Star Wars Holiday Special at the Bryant Lake Bowl

For the twentieth year in a row, our friend Chris Grap will be trading Toys for Tots toy donations for the chance to witness the mind-melting Star Wars Holiday Special in the only safe space there is to experience it: a darkened theater, surrounded by likeminded nerds, with plenty of sustenance and imbibement close at hand. 

But for the 20th birthday of this tradition, Chris has decided to do things a bit differently. This year each showing will feature a different cohost, and guess who's cohosting the late show? If you guessed Tape Freaks, you guessed correct! Tim has printed up a tee shirt for the occasion, put together a 15 min pre-show, and made buttons for each attendee to take on their way out! [And since I'm writing this at 5am, and hadn't read the description of our screening until just now, I might be writing some silly trivia questions just incase, because I don't recall the sleeping half of Tape Freaks saying anything about trivia recently...]   

How does one attend a depraved event such as this? Well starting at noon today, show organizer Chris will be at the door of the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater. Bring your toy donation to him, and he will give you a ticket to the screening of your choice! It's first come first pick, so if there's a showing you'd like to attend, get there by noon for the best chance to nab tickets to your preferred screening. (And if you have a donation but don't want to stick around for the screening, that's fine too!) Come donate toys, watch an abomination, bowl a few frames, stuff your face with nachos, or all of the above! Click here or the photo below for more information.

Our showing is the 10:00 pm show, but things will get started at 9:30 so don't be late!

Tape Freaks Presents: July's Mystery Movie!

 Well, I knew I had let the blog fall by the wayside, but no posts since January?! Time is a construct. I also knew it was the week of the 4th, but somehow also thought it was like September this morning... sigh. 

STILL SOLD OUT FOR ALL POSTED SHOWS. 

BUT!!! If you come early (or not so early even) there are always a handful of tickets available at the door. (Thanks to the kind patrons who reach out to the Trylon to release their tickets when they find they cannot attend!) So come early and try your luck if you missed tickets! 

This month's move theme: The unexpected.

Hints: We've watched so many films from this month's director, and we're no where near the halfway point of his catalogue. We screened this movie early on and it's still talked about amongst those of us who bore witness. One of those witnesses somehow found a better version than we've ever been able to find (not for lack of seeking), so anyone repeating this viewing is in for a treat!

Content Warnings: Gun violence. 

If you have other content concerns, feel free to reach out (facebook or email at info@TimMonsters.com) and we will happily address any concerns, big or small. We want fun surprises for everyone!

Mutual Aid Suggestion: Self care. And I don't mean a bubble bath, I mean something like allowing yourself to reassess what is serving you in your life and what needs to be cut out. That's probably the example I thought of because that's what I (Colette, the writing half of Tape Freaks) have been doing the last week! (If you need order-from-chaos inspiration, I've been watching this lady's organizing videos.) Take the time to assess and improve your space, friendships, and mental health this month, you're absolutely worth it! 

When Available, Get Your Tickets Here: Tape Freaks presents: Mystery Movie @ the Trylon, 7pm $5 

The First Screening of 2025!

 STILL SOLD OUT FOR ALL POSTED SHOWS.

This year we will be re-screening some of our past movies in honor of our 10 year anniversary! We're starting out with one that we originally screened to a smaller sized audience, and we feel it deserves to be appreciated by far more people. 

This month's move theme: So nice, let's watch it twice!!

Hints: This month's genre-mashing movie is subtitled, and the director has directed a total of four films we've screened! 

Content Warnings: No content warnings this month, but if you ever have concerns, always feel free to reach out.

If you have other content concerns, feel free to reach out (facebook or email at info@TimMonsters.com) and we will happily address any concerns, big or small. We want fun surprises for everyone!

Mutual Aid Suggestion: This past month the Tape Freaks household lost its most beloved member, Drake. We brought Drake and his littermate Steed into our home nearly 20 years ago, and words cannot express the void his absence has left to the rest of the two and four legged family members he left behind. So this month the mutual aid suggestion is to assist someone struggling to keep a pet in their life, whether someone you personally know, or through supporting organizations like North Minneapolis Pet Resource Center. And if you're thinking about bringing a new pet into your family, do so through adoption. We were Drake and Steed's third home when we got them from a friend [who'd bitten off FAR more than he could chew with those two], and they weren't even a full year old. There are so many flat-out amazing critters out there that need homes, never choose any option but adoption. 

Drake ❤

Eventually Get Your Tickets Here: Tape Freaks presents: Mystery Movie @ the Trylon, 7pm $5 

December's Mystery Movie

STILL SOLD OUT FOR ALL POSTED SHOWS.

This month's move theme: It's the most wonderful time of the year... if you like xmas, which I (Colette) don't. But I do love action movies!

Hints: There really isn't a way to tease this one without giving it away... it's a Christmas action movie, but no, it's not Die Hard. You'll just have to see I guess!

Content Warnings: Lost of gunfire and general action-movie violence. 

If you have other content concerns, feel free to reach out (facebook or email at info@TimMonsters.com) and we will happily address any concerns, big or small. We want fun surprises for everyone!

Mutual Aid Suggestion: this month's mutual aid suggestion is to check out PM Press' phenomenal sale and get some subversive reading materials into your library! Or get some for a free library, or someone on your gift list, or to leave in your local coffee shop...  PM Press 50% off all books through January 1st using code "GIFT"

Get Your Tickets FOR NEXT YEAR I GUESS Here: Tape Freaks presents: Mystery Movie @ the Trylon, 7pm $5