About us
Talking over a movie: most people hate it! Except sometimes they don't! When they don't, it's either a DVD commentary track or a movie riffing show, and we're here for the latter.
The art form known as movie riffing was popularized with the show Mystery Science Theater 3000, and it has only exploded since then, and here in Chicago it happens a lot! MST3k is back with a second new season on Netflix while old episodes run on Pluto.tv and pretty much anywhere online you'd care to look, and Rifftrax is up to three live broadcasts a year, but more important is the LIVE riffing.
We keep you up to date on local shows like VHS Comedy, where comedians riff the craziest VHS tapes your hosts can find as they stop by garage sales and thrift stores while touring the country, as well as big-name shows like the MADS from MST3k, Jonah Ray, Hampton Yount, and more. Finally, Chicago's own movie riffing crew, Down In Front, hosts a monthly scripted riffing show at @North bar featuring blockbuster films and oddities alike!
Upcoming events
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Down In Front: Saturday Morning
Color Club, 4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618, USA, Chicago, IL, USOur culture is rotting from within, and it is perhaps most evident in the decline in our observance of tradition. People need ritual to maintain a sense of order in this chaotic world, and it's because of that Down In Front is doing our part to renew one of the most important weekly traditions engaged by the majority of Americans.
We're talking, of course, about Saturday Morning Cartoons, tragically phased out of all our lives in the '90s. What other weekly ritual could we be talking about?Down In Front will tackle a handful of cartoons from the good old days after deregulation, when cartoons were really just long commercials interrupted by shorter commercials and breakfast cereals were just colored sugar and shaped marshmallows.
Throw on your jammies and join us for Saturday Mornings With Down In Front!Attendees in pajamas will receive a special breakfast cereal treat.
Color Club will provide standard theater seating, but if you'd like something softer, feel free to bring a bean bag, blow up couch, park blanket, pillow, or similar!
Tickets are available at Dice.
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