Check this running tally of free events for the fall season when you’re looking for something fun when you don’t have money to spare. If we missed one, send events to free[at]brokelyn.com and we’ll list it here!
Hey kids: Free movies to beat the post-Christmas blues
See Crooklyn, for free next week.
When I was just a wee brokester, the only free Christmas week entertainment available involved taking another tour through the Babbage’s at Ye Olde Ocean County Mall, test driving the new Super Nintendo game you didn’t get for Christmas. You kids in Brooklyn have it a lot better: next Thursday, BAM is treating you to free movies for the holidays. You can chose from two movies, complete with free popcorn and soda: Spike Lee’s Crooklyn or Gina Prince-Blythwood’s Love and Basketball. Both beat being forced to see New Year’s Eve with your parents. Teens can pick up tickets starting at 10am Dec. 29.
Our new list of free fall events!
Check this running tally of free events for the fall season when you’re looking for something fun when you don’t have money to spare. If we missed one, send events to free[at]brokelyn.com and we’ll list it here!
Spend 9/11 falling back in love with NYC
New York, we love you
Here’s an alternative thing to do on Sunday that’s slightly sunnier than weeping gently into your tattered sense of American security: BAM has free screenings of Manhattan, Woody Allen’s timeless love letter to the Big Apple, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Showtimes are 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30pm. The towers get a brief cameo in the film. But try not to strengthen your resolve in this city’s durability once the voice of Woody Allen starts waxing: “Chapter one: he was as tough and romantic as the city he loved …”
Bike-in movie update: time, location, Bueller, Bueller
Save Ferris, save gas at tonight's bike-in movie.
We got an update this morning with all the details for that free Bike-In movie we posted earlier this week. The movie will be Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and will be shown tonight at 8pm at India and West streets at the water in Greenpoint. The event is an experimental first outing by the folks at Forking Tasty, and will be “a little bit bare bones,” but the group says it will step it up for future screenings. There will be popcorn, snacks and more. Read the rest of the details (including rain contingency plans) for tonight’s event below: Read the rest of this entry »
Coming attraction: free bike-in movie this month
Load up your bike and take in a summer movie
In another defiant bird flip to the automobile, the fun-loving foodies at Forking Tasty are taking a modern spin on classic Americana with a free Ride-in Theatre for two-wheeled cyclists (and two-legged pedestrians are welcome, also). The event takes place somewhere in Brooklyn “before the third week in May,” but details on the exact location and movie are being kept quiet, privy only to those who sign up via the group’s website to receive the covert messaging. Something about this reminds us of tin-can telephones and after-dark neighborhood clans, another nod to that old-school nostalgia we appreciate. The free event promises a delicious nosh and a vintage flick to set the mood for what’s sure to be some starlit and environmentally friendly making out. Read the rest of this entry »
Summer ahoy! BK Bridge Park movie schedule released
Movies with a View in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Photo via Eileen O'Donnell on Flickr
Nothing gets us as excited for summer as when all the free event listings start filling the inbox, and today we got news on one of the best: the nine free movies that will be shown at Brooklyn Bridge Park from July 17-Sept. 1, all of which are New York themed. Before long, thoughts of digging out your doorstep day after day will seem like ludicrous nightmares as we recline on a blanket under the humid stars, pull snacks from a picnic basket and revel in Woody Allen’s Manhattan against the beautiful backdrop of the city skyline. See the full schedule below. Read the rest of this entry »
Your rainy Oscar weekend at the (free-and-cheap) movies
Is it raining? Or does someone just have to pee?
This is the weekend when the movie industry re-reads its status messages and hits its own “like” button over and over again: The Oscars! If you fell behind on your screeners, it’s not be too late to catch up (or at least, prepare for 2011′s films). Brokelyn’s got you covered with a guide to nominees you can watch on Netflix, plus a roundup of matinee deals and cheapest theaters in Brooklyn, to get the big-theater experience without the big cost. If you really lurve movies, find out how to get close up on set as a movie extra. Or you can catch up on the classics with free bar movies all year long. And if all this doesn’t quite inspire you to brave the rains, remember: those free outdoor summer movies from last summer will be back this year, just a mere four months away!
See free movies all year-round in Brooklyn
Movie theaters are great, but they are also out to get us. They charge us for popped corns (which are made of air); they tell us to be silent (because silence is golden and they want our gold); they torture naked hot dogs on a pitiless, fiery rack, and they’ve even begun hoarding our precious bedbugs. But no more! To the beer parlors, my friends – where the movies are free, the drinks are hard, and cell phone service is restored! Brooklyn bars offer a steady diet of free movie screenings for every taste, and Brokelyn is here to help you find the screen that suits you best. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooklyn on-screen, free pie at the Red Hook Film Fest
The Shadow Monster, Saturday, Oct. 16
This weekend you can see lightning-strike victims, a corpse dumping ground, a half-naked Bushwickian and a battle for water rights in Michigan all in the same place. It’s the Red Hook International Film and Video Festival we’re talking about, a two-day showcase of shorts and features, Brooklyn-centric documentaries, fiction and experimental films hosted by Red Hook’s Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. Best yet, it’s all free, and that includes the popcorn and Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pie. Read the rest of this entry »
Monday linkage
All you need to know for tomorrow’s primaries [WNYC]
The mystery of “No Parking Other Times” [Sheepshead Bites]
Ozzie’s on Fifth Ave. reopens after DOH shut-down [Brownstoner]
The worst outdoor table in NY [Eater NY]
Free movie series for kids kicking off downtown [Bococaland]
Bake & get baked: cannabis cookbook in the works [Grub Street]
New USED bookstore opens in Crown Heights [Hawthorne Street]
Tonight, Beatles & Brit Burlesque, Hot Plates Live, more [the skint]
