In Such a Pretty Girl, an utterly moving and quietly powerful short film, we’re treated to a simplistic and stunning story of a mother torn between her young child and aging father, a distinct line in the sand between generations, as she struggles to hold things together.
The Problem of the Hero (2023)
A writer brings in a colleague to help turn his book into a play but they eventually find themselves at an impasse when the colleague wants to make changes to one single page that the writer does not agree with.
¡Quba! (2025)
Marriage equality in Quba was not always something that seemed possible. However, a group of dedicated folks worked tirelessly until they got their goal and were allowed to marry.
The Bootleg Files: Strawberry Fields
BOOTLEG FILES 902: “Strawberry Fields” (unfinished animated feature from the 1980s).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube and Internet Archive.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Unfinished production with music rights clearance issues.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely.
During the 1960s, producer Al Brodax experienced back-to-back career peaks thanks to the decade’s most influential band – he was the driving force behind the animated television series “The Beatles” and the 1968 animated feature “Yellow Submarine.” In the mid-1980s, Brodax tried to score yet another Beatles-fueled triumph with an animated feature film called “Strawberry Fields.” Unfortunately, the project fell apart well ahead of its completion and the surviving footage went unseen until last year when the unauthorized upload of a work-in-progress reel appeared on the Internet.
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Step Back, Doors Closing (2025)
Telling the love story of Ryan and Julissa, two wayward Gen Z souls who happen to have their meet cute aboard the DC Metro system, Step Back, Doors Closing is a study of young love, rebounding, connecting, and coming of age beyond our teen years. The problem is, that’s about all there is to it.
Bullet Train (2022) [Action Packed April]
Join Ladybug, an unlucky assassin, as he attempts to conduct a simple snatch and grab aboard Japan’s bullet train, while everything that could go wrong for him, does, and in spectacular fashion, in Bullet Train.
Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Robot Rabbit (1953)
Robot Rabbit (1953)
Directed by Friz Freleng
Story by Warren Foster
Animation by Ken Champin, Manuel Perez, Arthur Davis, Virgil Ross
Music by Carl Stalling
Carrot farmer Elmer Fudd is frustrated at having Bugs Bunny pilfering his harvest, but his attempts to fatally shoot the long-eared miscreant amounts to naught. Elmer places a call to Acme Pest Control and quickly receives a robot designed to obliterate irritating varmints. The robot initially gets the best of Bugs with a solid punch to the face and by digging him out of his hole, the rascally rabbit uses a mix of old and new tricks to speed the demise of his metallic foe.
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