Three men put in a Russian labor camp escape and try to find their way through the wilderness to make it back home.
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties (2024)
Bubbles and the Shitrockers get hired to tour Europe. Of course, in pure Trailer Park Boys style, things go really wrong.
You Are Not Me (aka Tú no eres yo) (2023)
A young woman travels back to her country to visit her parents for Christmas with her girlfriend and their son, soon finding out that something odd is going when a new woman is introduced as her parents’ daughter.
The Bootleg Files: Broadway Open House
BOOTLEG FILES 888: “Broadway Open House” (1950-51 television series that pioneered the concept of late-night television).
LAST SEEN: Two extant episodes are online.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: A combination of music rights issues and a low survival rate of kinescoped episodes.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Probably not.
The other day, I was scanning through social media and I came upon a posting from a news organization with a headline that read something like “Jimmy Kimmel Rips Trump’s Economic Proposals” – and under the headline was a picture of the obnoxious late-night host squinting and scowling while he was reading his agitprop from a TelePrompter. My reaction to this was negative – really, who wants to end their day watching a painfully unfunny late-night host bloviating for the zillionth time about his hatred of Donald Trump? Then, another thought hit me. We all know where late-night television is today, with its emetic hosts spewing far-left political commentary before engaging in vapid faux-interviews with the current line-up of dreary talent. But I wanted to know where late-night television began and what yesteryear’s audiences enjoyed at the end of their days. The answer: it began in 1950 with a show called “Broadway Open House,” and the story of its rise and fall is nothing short of astonishing.
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Werewolves (2024)
In theaters December 6th, 2024
A man helps set up his brother’s widow to spend the night alone with her child in the house while he goes out to test a new solution to a global epidemic of werewolves which happen under super moons which is that night. Soon, things take a turn.
Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Big Top Bunny (1951)
Big Top Bunny (1951)
Directed by Robert McKimson
Story by Tedd Pierce
Animation by Charles McKimson, Rod Scribner, Phil DeLara, Bob Wickersham
Music by Carl Stalling
The reigning animal star of Col. Korny’s Circus is Bruno the Slobokian Acrobatic Bear – the ursine star is a burly biped with a tan body, a chalk white face and a green and red derby, as well as a heavy accent that sounds like it comes from any country behind the Iron Curtain. Bruno’s spotlight reign is threatened when he is given a new performing partner with Bugs Bunny. Bruno is furious at this arrangement and tries to sabotage Bugs during their premiere engagement. Bugs quickly realizes Bruno’s intentions and deftly turns the tables on the arrogant acrobat, ultimately resulting in a big top ejection via a cannon.
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The Champions (1983) [Eureka Classics]
Now available from Eureka Classics
A young country hick with acrobatic skills running away from town finds his way into a soccer team where he seems to fit in quite well.