“Cheaper by the Dozen” ~ $20
Freshly Popped Popcorn, Plain M&M’s, Sour Patch Kids and Twizzlers

“The Cider House Rules” ~ $35
Freshly Popped Popcorn, Swedish Fish, Skittles, Milk Duds + 4-pack Book of Nomad: Apricot Cider

“The Breakfast at Tiffany’s ~ $35
Freshly Popped Popcorn, Peanut M&M’s, Raisinettes + 20cl Bottle of Brigandat at Fils, Blanc de Noir Champagne

“The Cinema Paradiso” ~ $40
Freshly Popped Popcorn, 2 Delicious Bars of Fine Mast Chocolate + Bottle of William Hill Chardonnay

“The Animal House” ~ $50
Freshly Popped Popcorn, Peanut M&M’s, Raisinettes, Gummy Bears, Nestle Crunch Bar + 4 Delicious IPAs (Assorted Mix IPA’s include Interboro Brewery, Industrial Arts and Bronx Brewery)

“The Swiss Family Robinson” Family Fun Combo ~ $50
Freshly Popped Popcorn, Sour Patch Kids, Buncha Crunch, Plain M&M’s, Gummy Bears, Twizzlers, Kit Kats + 6 mini-bottles of Pepsi or Sierra Mist

While you’re at it – stream a Magnolia Pictures release from The Bedford Playhouse and they get half the rental fee.

Kids Flicks

New York International Children’s Film Festival:Kids Flicks 1 features 56 minutes of short films recommended for children ages 3 to 7. These 12 shorts from 9 countries include: Belly Flop from South Africa, Mi Abuelita from Guatemala and Flipped, a UK film where the little ones are in charge while the grownups stay home to play. NYICFF’s Kids Flicks 2 presents 8 shorts (72 minutes running time) from around the world for ages 8+. Including Slow Dancefrom Sweden that explores male bravery on a middle-school dance floor and A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year Old Girl from Australia – which needs no explanation. These NYICFF highlights are screened each year at the Jacob Burns Film Center.

Narrative Films

Crescendo: Academy-Award nominated director Dror Zahavi (Alexander Penn, Everything for my Father) directs this gripping drama about a world famous conductor who tries to create an Israels/Palestinian youth orchestra. Only to be quickly drawn into a tempest of unsolvable problems. Saint Francis, about a 34 year-old nanny who in quick succession finally meets a nice guy, gets a dream job offer and discovers her own unwanted pregnancy. Two out of three ain’t bad, as they say.

Documentaries

The Bedford Playhouse in collaboration with Magnolia Pictures recently added three new documentaries to their streaming library. Spaceship Earth chronicles the controversial adventures of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. Foodie will like Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy a full length documentary of cookbook author and environmental activist Diana Kennedy as she reflects on an unconventional life spent mastering Mexican cuisine. Another recent add to BPH’s streaming documentary library is Up From The Streets, a multi-award-winning documentary that profiles New Orleans culture through the lens of music – from the drumming in Congo Square to the city’s contemporary music scene.

Still available in BPH’s streaming library: The Woman Who Loved Giraffes, a documentary about Ann Ennis Dagg who founded the science of giraffe biology. The film goes from a grainy black and white video of her appearance on the tv show To Tell The Truth to National Geographicquality footage of giraffes in the wild. More Magnolia Pictures documentaries include Slay The Dragon about gerrymandering, The Booksellers that takes viewers inside the fascinating world of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers and their role in preserving history. And Fantastic Funghi, that explores this underground world and the prospects fungi present to solving pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges.