Closing the summer months with a beach photos and Asian short films:
Super Troopers 3 [2026]
The boys are back for round three as Thorny deals with the horrors of his sister marrying Farva, in the funny-enough, in a nice familiarity of Broken Lizard’s Super Troopers 3.
I Saw the TV Glow [2024]
A pair of awkward and lonely suburban teenagers connect over a TV show and perhaps find the changes they need in their lives. A single sentence here can’t properly introduce the haunting, sad, and affecting film of finding connection and the internal fight for one’s true self in Jane Schoenbrun’s second film: 2024’s I Saw the TV Glow.
Short Film for You! [Asian Cinema August]
Closing the summer months with a beach photos and Asian short films:
Lee Soo-Yeon: Bluebeard (2017) [Female Filmmaker Friday] [Asian Cinema August]
A recently divorced Doctor, Seung-hoon lives in a town plagued by a history of murders. While under anesthesia, his landlord, who also owns the butcher shop, seemingly confesses, leading Seung-hoon on a frantic chase to solve the case.
Death Warrant [1990] [MVD Rewind Collection 4k UHD & Blu-ray]
Jean-Claude Van Damme goes undercover in a prison to root out a conspiracy in 1990’s Death Warrant. The popcorn action flick, directed by Deran Sarafian and written by David S. Goyer, hits 4k & Blu-Ray via MVD Entertainment this week.
The Bootleg Files: In Search of Noah’s Ark
BOOTLEG FILES 945: “In Search of Noah’s Ark” (1976 nonfiction feature from Sunn Classics).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: Three different VHS video releases.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Out of circulation for many years.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: None.
If you were going to the movies back in the 1970s, you must remember Sunn Classic Pictures, also known as Schick Sunn Classics. This small Utah company happily littered movie theaters in with films that promised to unlock the secrets of cryptozoology, paranormal activity, historical conspiracies and the more opaque corners of Biblical text. Each film produced by this Utah-based company was distributed with a blaring, carny-worthy marketing campaign that saturated local television stations and newspapers with bombastic advertisements that greatly exaggerated the depth and scope of the presentations. The company also four-walled the theaters where their films played, thus giving them a generous share of the box office.
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