Now available on physical media from Radiance Films
A man living in world with a gibberish language leaves society behind and creates his own lifestyle that involves a woman, no clothes, a destroyed building, and a lot of misunderstandings.
Drive-Away Dolls (2024) [Pride 2025]
Two lesbians in 1999 inadvertently stumble upon a briefcase full of important “secret things” and wind up in the crosshairs of some rather unsavory folks.
La Cage aux Folles (1978) [Pride 2025]
Renato and his partner Albin want to be excited for their estranged son’s engagement. But when the bride’s conservative family wants to meet them, they’ll have to use their drag skills for the hardest role cabaret crew has ever had to pull off… Playing things “straight”.
The 10 Unlikeliest Achievements in Clothing-Free Cinema
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of “3 AM.” What, you never heard of “3 AM”? Well, if you’re an Orson Welles fan, you’ll recall that film was directed by Gary Graver, the cinematographer on Welles’ “The Other Side of the Wind” – Graver needed to take on the skin flick job to because he couldn’t cover his bills working on Welles’ on-again/off-again project. As a favor to Graver, the Big O did uncredited work in editing a steamy masturbatory shower in “3 AM.”
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Predator: Killer of Killers [2025]
Three warriors across Earth’s history fight Predators in the amazingly entertaining, animated action blast Predator: Killer of Killers, directed by Dan Trachtenberg & Joshua Wassung; now streaming on Hulu.
The Bootleg Files: Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!
BOOTLEG FILES 909: “Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!” (1969 animated short).
LAST SEEN: On DailyMotion.com and several other sites.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: A one-shot outing that came at the end of Warner Bros.’ animated theatrical run.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Maybe in a Warner Bros. anthology collection.
The last iteration of this column featured “Rabbit Habit,” an underground parody film that imagined a drug-hazed post-script for the Warner Bros. animated characters. In retrospect, “Rabbit Habit” would have been a better sign-off than “Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!”, a 1969 short that was completed just before the celebrated animation studio finally ended its theatrical output.
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The Phoenician Scheme [2025]
In Wes Anderson’s fun but flawed The Phoenician Scheme, a businessman takes his nun daughter and Swedish tutor on a world-trotting adventure to make a deal before his assassins catch up to him.