Director and Writer Sonia Estévez’s short stop motion film is a beautiful depiction of the life span of the normal woman and how she perceives their existence as a whole. The idea of the normal woman being depicted as some one living on strings is a fascinating bit of symbolism. Over the course of ten minutes, the animation depicts her as someone being held up by strings who seeks independence almost immediately.
Latency (2024)
In theaters June 14, 2024
A gamer and technology company employee receives a new device that better connects her to her computer. Through the training of this device and its use in a gaming competition, she soon discovers that this may be a dangerous device.
Tiger Stripes (2023)
In theaters June 14, 2024
In a very controlled environment, a young girl starts seeing changes to her body, changes that turn horrific fast.
Gunfighter Paradise (2024)
Recently selected to the 2024 RiverRun Film Festival.
Like a Southern fried “Donnie Darko,” writer/director Jethro Waters’s darkly comic dissection of America and masculinity is truly one of the most unique and bizarre dark comedies to come out of the independent circuit. I don’t think audiences are ready for what someone like Waters has in store, placing America’s current social climate up to a big lens and lending some insight in to the lunacy of it all, and how the lunacy has become the new norm.
Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Frigid Hare (1949)
Frigid Hare (1949)
Directed by Chuck Jones
Written by Michael Maltese
Animation by Phil Monroe
Music by Carl Stalling
I think “Frigid Hare” is the point in Bugs Bunny’s career when he stopped being a mere foil or protagonist and started being something of a hero. When he finally steps up to defend a small penguin named “Playboy,” who–a very small cute penguin… from the wrath of an inuit. That’s the exact time Bugs started becoming something of a hero for the little guy. All of the other scenarios of Bugs giving in to his baser urges to be egomaniacal, or just plain antagonistic are a bar he’s just toppled. With “Frigid Hare” the animators and writers set a high bar with a short where we’d see him defending and fighting for other smaller animals in the near future.
Mute Witness (1995)
Out on Blu-ray and 4K UHD June 11th, 2024, from Arrow Video.
A mute woman witnessed a murder while stuck in the studio after hours on the set she is a makeup artist for a slasher film.
The Valiant Ones (1975) (aka Zhong lie tu) [The Masters of Cinema Series]
Available on Blu-ray and 4K UHD June 11th, 2024, from Eureka Entertainment
When pirates invade the land, the emperor dispatches an officer and his cohorts to take care of the problem.