Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Barbary-Coast Bunny (1956)

Posted on August 20, 2025 by Phil Hall

Barbary-Coast Bunny (1956)
Directed by Chuck Jones
Story by Tedd Pierce
Animation by Abe Levitow, Richard Thompson, Ken Harris
Music by Carl Stalling

Bugs Bunny is burrowing underground to visit his cousin Herman in San Francisco when he bangs head-first into a giant gold nugget. The swindler Nasty Canasta tricks Bugs into believing he has a depository bank for storing the gold, and Bugs entrusts his new fortune with the miscreant. After Nasty violently waylays Bugs, the angry rabbit vows revenge. Six months later, he tracks down Nasty to the San Francisco casino that he built with Bugs’ gold. Bugs disguises himself as a naïve rural visitor, but this seemingly innocent façade enables him to casually drain the casino of its money by winning Nasty’s rigged games.
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Brute 1976 (2025)

Posted on August 20, 2025 by Emilie Black

A photoshoot group ends up in the desert to try and find the perfect shot. Soon, they find a new location and its inhabitants are not what one would want to meet on a deserted road in the 1970s.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) [Back to School Month]

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Nikki Durbin

A young kid tries, and falls, at becoming popular amongst the other kids, chronicling his experiences in his diary and recounting his socially awkward and difficult times in middle school.

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Lilly Lives Alone (2025)

Posted on August 19, 2025 by K Bly

On Lilly’s daughter’s 10-year death anniversary, a quiet portrait of grief turns into a frantic fever dream of paranoia and dread.

Trigger warning: Child death

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Strange Harvest (2025)

Posted on August 18, 2025 by Bob Foster

The rise and fall of a serial killer in 90s and 00s San Bernardino County is recounted via a faux true-crime documentary in the scarily effective horror film Strange Harvest, from writer-director Stuart Ortiz.

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An Offer You Can’t Refuse: The 10 Weirdest Gangster Films Of All Time

Posted on August 18, 2025 by Phil Hall

Next month marks the 35th anniversary of the premiere of Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas,” which is considered among the greatest gangster films ever made. But for every “Goodfellas,” there are plenty of other films about organized crime that were somewhat more eccentric – and in some cases, they offered an utterly warped consideration of the criminal world. If you are in search of films populated with off-kilter mobsters, then leave the gun and take the cannoli to this line-up of the 10 weirdest gangster movies to shoot their way across the big screen.
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POOLS (2025)

Posted on August 18, 2025 by Nikki Durbin

A young woman enrolled in summer school courses decides to attempt to reconnect with her dead father, and herself, over the course of a crazy night of pool hopping.

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