The Best of the Sci Fi Screening Room

Big news: April 8th marks the 15-month anniversary of the Sci Fi Screening Room.

So I'm doing a GREATEST HITS Show, featuring the greatest clips from the series.

We're talking the best from Bigfoot Night, Video Game Night and Batman Night!

Plus favorites from Frankenstein Night, Superhero Night and Sci Fi Musicals Night.

Still not enough? Hows about scenes from Damanation Alley Night, Hulk Night and Kiss Night!?

If you've missed shows in the past, this is your chance to catch-up with an epic 99 minute video cavalcade featuring footage you won't find on YouTube of Netflix.

Plus: New clips that didn't fit into previous theme nights.

A chance for two lucky audience members to challenge our PAC-MAN Champ.

Music, Trivia, Prizes, Free Snacks, Cheap Beer and...a special surprise guest making his Sci Fi Screening Room debut.

Come see the show that has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American and a David Hasslehoff Fan blog.


THE BEST OF THE SCI FI SCREENING ROOM

UNDER St. Mark's
94 St. Mark's Place (between 1st Ave and Avenue A)

Still just $7

NOTE: THIS SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED TO JUNE. CHECK BACK HERE TO DETAILS.

Coming Soon...

My new short PUPPET RODEO played at Philadelphia's Backseat Film Festival where it won the award for Staff Favorite.

It's coming soon to Atom.com -- stay tuned for details.

The Backseat guys will be screening the Kevin Maher/TV Head classic
Family Dinner Party at their evening at the Philadelphia Cinefest.

SUPERHERO Night!

It's a bird...

it's a plane...

it's... SUPERHERO Night!

Yes, from the people who brought you HULK Night and KISS Night comes the ultimate video cavalcade of off-beat Superhero clips.

Featuring stuff you won't find on TV, YouTube or Hulu... including scenes from The 1979 cartoon show FRED & BARNEY MEET THE THING.

...scenes from The Spirit TV movie

...and a view-master reel of Superman Vs. The Computer Crook.

Special guests include James Dean Conklin, the animator of WONDERMAN (TV Funhouse)
Professor Geoff Klock (who contribued to MOMA's Superhero fashion book)
Matthew K. Manning (writer for DC's Batman Strikes)
M. Sweeney Lawless (curator of BIGFOOT Night)
Jay Stern (producer of FRANKENSTEIN Night)
Craig Wichman (who played Batman in BATMAN Night's Fan Fiction)

and co-host Nick Nadel (from the AMC super-hero blog)


It all happens this Wednesday, March 18th @ 7 PM.

UNDER St. Mark's
94 St. Mark's Place (between 1st Avenue and Avenue A)

Tickets are $7 (admission includes a Hostess Fruit Pie)

FANBOYS interview

Here's a one-off video I did for AMC. I wanted to help spread the word about FANBOYS. Screenwriter Ernie Cline is one of my favorite SPOKEN NERD artists. You should check out his stuff at http://www.ernestcline.com/

Also, you can find ALMOST all the AMC videos here (http://www.amctv.com/videos/scifi-movies/) They are missing two episodes.

VIDEO-GAME-MOVIE Night!

February’s SCI FI SCREENING ROOM is a celebration of movies inspired by video games. Featuring cartoons based on arcade classics, vintage commercials, fan films, and other gimmicky media that tried to cash-in on America’s Pac-Man Fever.

With:
Live Chiptune music.
Video-Game Haikus.
Footage from THE LAST STARFIGHTER musical.
Plus special surprises and trivia prizes.

The evening will include a mini-video-game tournament (just like in THE WIZARD).


Co-Host Will Carlough will show a video-tape of his world-record-breaking game of ICE CLIMBER. And we'll screen an official video on Secret video Game Tricks, Codes and Strategies.


After the show we’ll go to Criff Dogs for some RC Cola and Spy Hunter.


The Sci Fi Screening Room
Monday, February 9the @ 9 PM
UNDER St. Mark’s
94 St. Mark’s Place (betw 1st Ave and Avenue A)
$7

The End of The Road

The final episode of THE SCI FI DEPARTMENT.

We had a great run -- 72 episodes! Thanks to anyone who watched the show.

LABYRINTH sing-along

This was a lot of fun. The 92Y invited me back to host a screening. Check back for updates.

Old People News

Old People News

Atom.com: Funny Videos | Spoofs | TV & Movie Spoofs

Here's my new web-show, produced for Atom.com and Comedy Central.

OLD PEOPLE NEWS stars a talented cast, including Arhur Anderson, the last surviving member of Orson Welles' Mercury Players.

The video has already won a major award -- it was the audience favorite at the Iron Mule Comedy Film Festival.

Christmas on Mars

Wayne Coyne is a real gentleman. You can read a longer version of this interview here

and be sure to check out showtimes at Cinema Purgatorio.com.

Five Freaky Frankenstein Films

After the success of FRANKENSTEIN Night! I wanted to do a video that captured some of the fun-facts from that show.

Thanks to BODIES: The Exhibition, they were really generous -- and they gave me that shirt, which made for a good movie reference. (2-in-1, really.)

Variations on a Theme

Wednesday is SCI FI MUSICAL Night!

Honestly, this Wednesday’s The Sci Fi Screening Room is the best yet.

Co-host Raven Snook and I are excited to do this show.

We’re joined by specials guests Eric Drysdale (The Colbert Report)

and Joe DiPietro (author of The Toxic Avenger: the Musical)

PLUS special appearances by
Alan Arkin
A.L.F.
Bea Arthur
Bill Bixby
David Bowie
Charlie Callas
Lou Ferrigno
Gamera
Gil Gerard
Gerrit Graham
Ruth Gordon
Jessica Harper
Neil Patrick Harris
Deborah Harry
Finola Hughes
Kris Kristofferson
Christopher Lee
Paul Lynde
Patrick Macnee
Rik Mayall
Richard Moll
Olivia Newton-John
Leslie Nielsen
Richard O’Brien
Jerry Orbach
Mackenzie Phillips
Vincent Price
Catherine Mary Stewart
Craig Sheffer (Hardy Jenns in “Some Kind of Wonderful”)
Darth Vader
Herve Villechaize
Cindy Williams
Paul Williams
Raquel Welch
Pia Zadora

and Danny Elfman as the Devil!


They’ll all be there this Wednesday @ 7:00


SCI FI MUSICAL Night!

Wednesday, December 10th

UNDER St. Mark’s
94 St. Mark’s Place (between 1st Ave & Avenue A)


And we’ll have a glam-rock after-party at ATOMIC X @ Beauty Bar
231 E. 14th Street


see you THIS Wednesday,


Now here's a clip of Darth Vader on THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, in a bit written by people who'd clearly never seen STAR WARS...

Hi, I'm Kevin Maher's Blog...

...

Kevin Maher is a Brooklyn-based writer-producer.

This blog is a place to watch various videos he's made for HBO, CNN and American Movie Classics. Plus independent comedy videos.

Some recent highlights include:

the Sci Fi Department's Halloween episode

Attack of the Super Plants

Sci Fi Happy Hour

It’s also the best place to get details on the live monthly show THE SCI FI SCREENING ROOM -- an editor’s pick in Time Out NY, the New York Times newsletter, Village Voice, Gothamist, and Scientific American (no joke.)

The next show is Wednesday December 10th -- it’s SCI FI MUSICALS Night!


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SCI FI MUSICAL Night!

This Christmas season, The Sci Fi Screening Room is giving you our best show yet:

an evening of songs and scenes from the best Sci Fi Musicals.

Raven Snook returns to co-host this collection of clips from the Golden Age of Cult Musicals. We'll run the gammet from Phantom of the Paradise to Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. Join us as we celebrate the most mind-boggling numbers from campy favorites such as Forbidden Zone (1980) and Xanadu (1980), to lesser-know films like the Alan Arkin superhero parody The Return of Captain Invincible (1983) and Grease-meets-Swamp Thing oddity Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1987).

Plus we'll chat with Joe DiPietro, who penned The Toxic Avenger Musical. And as always there's cheap beer and free snacks!

The 2-hour video variety show will also include trivia, sing-alongs and TV clips from the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special and the obscure Star Wars-themed episode of The Donnie and Marie Show.

Kevin Maher (American Movie Classics’ The Sci Fi Department) and Raven Snook (Time Out New York) cohost the evening that promises to please geeks, gays and glitter hounds in equal measure.

Wednesday, December 10th @ 7 PM
UNDER St. Mark's
94 St. Mark's Place (between 1st Ave and Avenue A)
just seven bucks

Please don't adapt THE ROAD as a TV Show

No, there's no plans to make Cormac McCarthy's novel into a new F/X mini-series. I'm just messin' with ya. But here are some actual TV shows inspired by movies. (Beyond Westworld not included.)

Here's a clip of that awful Wizard of Oz cartoon.

Why Not TRON-fest?

I finally made it to Lebowski Fest! And all it took was a paper-think premise.

Big shout-out to Will Russell, the co-founding Dude. You will not find a cooler organizer in these United States.

Note: This was one event where the tourists were a lot more fun than the locals. Sorry New Yorkers, you're a little too hip for your own good.