DIGITAL MAN
dir. Philip J. Roth, 1995
United States, 91 min.
In English.

SATURDAY, MARCH 7 - MIDNIGHT
THURSDAY, MARCH 12 - 10PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 20 - 7:30PM

Spectacle offers up this late-night cyberwar curio fielded from the pixelated precipice between Atari and THE MATRIX. Starring an Altmanesque corps of noteworthy surnames, Philip Roth’s DIGITAL MAN concerns a glitch in national security so cruel, it’d be divine if it weren’t so damn digital: a time-traveling supercyborg touches down in the small-town Southwest just in time to hijack an apocalypse’s worth of nuclear launch codes.

Fresh off a realm too insane in its violence and punishment for mere humans to enter, the Digital Man must be stopped—and it’s up to a motley crue of wisecracking heavyweights (some military experts, some shotgun-toting salt of the earth) to take him out, analog style. Tons and tons and tons and tons of fireball explosions (replete with slo-mo backflips and brutal, spaghetti-worthy shootouts) ensue, culminating in one night you can’t merely “attend” while on your laptop.