His Hare-Raising Tale (1951)
Directed by Friz Freleng
Story by Warren Foster
Animation by Virgil Ross
Music by Carl Stalling
One of the relatively few Warner Bros. cartoons that mainly consisted of recycled footage from older shorts, “His Hare-Raising Tale” is an amusing endeavor that pointed to a potential scenario shift that, sadly, was never explored in depth.
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Available from Scream Team Releasing here
A small Ohio town is seeing its homeless population decimated by an animal so two young women decide to do something about it.
I am trying to recall the last time that I saw a feature-length documentary that invigorated, entertained, provoked and moved me across the full spectrum of emotional responses. To borrow a line from George Harrison – it’s been a long, long, long time. And that is why I am grateful for the arrival of Paris Barclay’s “Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It,” a production of remarkable grace and power that deserves to be considered as the best film of the year.
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Now available from Radiance Films
A young man wakes up in an asylum and slowly goes through healing and setbacks with two very different doctors while trying to remember how and why he got there.
Box set now available from Arrow Video
Touted as a set of 7 of the genre’s “most distinctive titles”, this new box set from Arrow Video is one that is uneven in story and film quality, but one where most Japanese horror fans should find at least a few titles they love.
Available on VOD now
An expecting couple heads home from their engagement party through the mountains, taking a short cut that takes them on an odd road that is seemingly never-ending.
Jules White was not, by any stretch of the imagination, the greatest comedy director – but he might have been the resourceful. With the 1956 Three Stooges short “Scheming Schemers,” he created a new film by using stock footage from three different movies while putting forth a work where one of the stars had passed away six weeks earlier.
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