Why You Won't See a Listing for Foxy Brown at the Dark Room in the SF Weekly Print Edition

The Dark Room Theater is awesome.

However, while doing our Arthouse film showtimes listings for the print version of SF Weekly, we noticed the tiny theater's "Bad Movie Night" series was in Blaxsploitation Month, which includes Shaft and Foxy Brown. Shaft we could handle, barely, but when it came time to write "Bad Movie" and Foxy Brown in the same database entry formbot, it wasn't gonna happen. We've been at these listings since Bad Movie Night started, in 2005 and we've never given a crap what they've screened before. We have gone to it many times, yelled insults at the screen along with the hosts (who call it "Mystery Science Theater 3000 live") and died laughing.

The series has a slight history of misunderstanding us in nearly insignificant ways: The organizers still think that we joined in with the self-appointed defenders of filmic art who complained to them about including It's a Wonderful Life. We did no such thing since It's a Wonderful Life is corn, right off the cob, and deserves to be grilled once in a while; we enjoy laughing at it as well as crying with it.

But if loving Foxy Brown unironically and uncritically is wrong, we don't wanna be right. Pam Grier is a superhero for practically anyone who's never had one! The awesomeness -- shit, the fashion alone -- completely outweighs the off-kilter filmmaking, etc. etc. Obviously, you should go see it and decide for yourself.

Upshot: You won't see Foxy Brown listed in the Weekly under the heading of "Bad Movie Night." Ha ha ha ha! But you will be able to see it at the Dark Room April 10 at 8.