Kurt Russell to the rescue at Metrograph

Metrograph, the two-screen cinema down on Ludlow Street just north of Canal, is paying tribute to Kurt Russell in an 11-film retrospective that unspools starting tomorrow (and running through Jan. 19).

Per the series description:

Kurt Russell is the platonic ideal of a macho American movie star: lantern jaw, dimpled chin, heroic bouffant… the works. The pleasure of Russell’s filmography is that he doesn’t shy away from this fact, but embraces it, goofs around with it. 

Sure. But!

Bottom line: Kurt Russell is the greatest and everybody basically knows this, so we’re running a bunch of Kurt Russell movies. It’s just that simple. 

"Kurt Russell: It's All in the Reflexes" includes some underrated gems ("Used Cars" and "Breakdown") ... some cheesy guilty pleasures ("Executive Decision" and "Tango & Cash") ... the cultyish ("Big Trouble in Little China") ... and the KR classics ("Escape From New York" and "The Thing.")

Find showtimes here. 

And it will be good to see this again on a big screen...