Windy City Double Feature Picture Show

Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt take their cinematic time machine back to 1962 for some old school Hollywood sentimentality and a shotgun blast of New Wave from France with A POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES and BREATHLESS which opened at the south side's Tivoli Theater on February 16, 1962.

This week Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt look back at the Siskel & Ebert "Dog of the Week" double feature of VICE SQUAD (1982) and JAWS OF THE DRAGON (1974) that opened at the Woods Theater on January 22, 1982.

The boys are back with a super-sized second season premiere as film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt are joined by Music Box Of Horrors programmer, Will Morris, as the trio look back on the super sexy and scary, Giallo and porno double feature of THE OPENING OF MISTY BEETHOVEN and DEEP RED that opened at the Elk Grove Theater on October 8, 1976.

In our FIRST SEASON FINALE, Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt look back at the cheerfully odd double feature of SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS and SANTA'S MAGIC KINGDOM that opened at the Loop Theater on December 18, 1964.

We'll be recreating this classic double feature at Music Box Theater on December 20, 2021!

Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt are joined by film noir preservationist Alan K. Rode as they look back at this quintessential crime double feature of WHITE HEAT (1949) and TOO LATE FOR TEARS (1949) that opened at the McVickers Theater on October 28, 1949.

Mike and Adam will be presenting this double feature at Chicago's Music Box Theater on November 30, 2021.

This week, Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt are joined by A.V. Club senior writer Katie Rife as they look back at a nasty, mean-spirited infamous exploitation double feature of, I Spit on Your Grave and The Children that opened at the Luna Theatre on July 11, 1980.

Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt are joined by Chicago International Film Festival After Dark programmer Raul Benitez as the trio look back on at the super spooky, genre bending double feature of THE MUMMY and CURSE OF THE UNDEAD that opened at the Howard Theatre on September 4, 1959.

Windy City Double Feature will be presenting both films at the Music Box Of Horrors: Dawn Of The Drive-In on October 20, 2021. Tickets are now available!

Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt look back at the Herschel Gordon Lewis directed the gory and rough, "something weird" double feature of BLOOD FEAST and SCUM OF THE EARTH that opened at the Starlite Drive-In—located in suburban Oak Lawn—on August 9, 1963 which we recreated at Chicago's Music Box Theatre!

This week, Mike and Adam are joined by Gold Globe-winning writer Larry Karaszewski for a SUPER SIZED EPISODE as we look back on the sex and drugs counter-culture double feature of TAKING OFF (1971) and I LOVE MY WIFE (1970) that premiered at the Coronet Theater on September 24, 1971.

Take a trip to the tropics with Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt as they look back at the sand and surf double feature of Blake Edwards' 10 and SUNBURN—featuring all-time stone-cold foxes Bo Derek and Farrah Fawcett—that premiered at the Montclare Theatre on February 8, 1980.