This past Saturday night at The Loft Cinema, Bookmans celebrated our community's efforts to fight censorship, and our support of the weekly Cult Classics screened every Friday and Saturday night, with a special screening of A Clockwork Orange! We had a great time and gave away some serious Bookmans goodies to folks in attendance, including our classic lightbulb censorship T-shirts, $10 gift cards, six $50 Bookmans' gift certificates, and three $100 Fight Censorship goodie bags filled with books, CDs, and movies that have been challenged or banned in our country.

Thanks to everyone who spent the evening with us and who support the belief that we each have the right to choose what we watch, read, or listen to! You can see some pictures from the event here.

We hope to see you next weekend, when Bookmans and Late Night Cult Classics present Blood Simple -- The Director's Cut! The slam bang debut film of Joel and Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is a grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson fused with Tales from the Crypt comic books, and you get the idea. The story concerns a sweaty Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M. Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her film debut), and then kill her and her straight-arrow lover (John Getz). However, the greedy gumshoe turns the tables on his client, and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with extremely nasty incidents piling up fast and thick -- much like the blood that shockingly splashes across the screen on numerous occasions.