Every Bugs Bunny Ever: The Grey Hounded Hare (1949)

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Felix Vasquez

The Grey Hounded Hare (1949)Directed by Bob McKimson
Written by Warren Foster
Animation by John Carey
Music by Carl Stalling

“The Grey Hounded Hare” is one of those shorts that always played in the very middle of marathons on cable TV and it almost always made great background noise. That’s mainly because “The Grey Hounded Hare” isn’t really anything to write home about. When it comes to Bugs Bunny he’s done better, and the writers have found better ways to utilize his ongoing feud with dogs. The short by Bob McKimson is pretty much the repetition that these shorts are known for but without not too many laughs. Sure it’s clever and it’s high energy, which is always a plus. But the whole concept just kind of feels stale and forced. That’s punctuated by the fact that the short has no real foil for Bugs Bunny.

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Dune: Part Two (2024) [4K UHD/Digital]

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Felix Vasquez

Now Available from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

“Dune Part Two” is an infinitely superior film to the 2021 installment of “Dune” which, when all was said and done, felt more like a prologue than an actual narrative. While “Dune” was good, the second chapter to Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation feels so much more cohesive. Not to mention a lot of the concepts and ideas and so much less abstract and much easier to comprehend. There’s just so much more focus and laser beam direction this time out. While, again, “Dune” was good in its own right, I just had a much better time in how Villeneuve adopts the whole concept of “Dune” in the vein of “The Empire Strikes Back.”

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In a Violent Nature (2024)

Posted on May 27, 2024 by Felix Vasquez

Exclusively In Theaters on May 31^stfrom IFC Films.

When you’re a slasher movie buff as I have been for thirty years, you become convinced that you’ve seen it all. Every new kind of effect or aesthetic has been approached, all with varying degrees of success. So when a movie like “In a Violent Nature” comes around and changes your mind, it’s quite a special occasion. Chris Nash sets out to not only re-think the slasher movie, but deconstruct it, and succeeds with flying colors. He the best horror movie of the year, a nihilistic, gory, viciously mean slasher movie that’s also incredibly creepy, and downright haunting in its commentary about the unpredictability of nature.

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Printer Head (2023)

Posted on May 26, 2024 by Felix Vasquez

Director Frances McIlvain’s short horror film turns the work environment in to a veritable hellscape, lensing his film very much in the vein of early David Lynch. Filmed through very murky black and white, “Printer Head” watches like an office drones bad dream and it never stops being a royal mind fuck.

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Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (aka Feng shen Di yi bu: Zhao ge feng yun) (2023)

Posted on May 26, 2024 by Emilie Black

Available on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD May 28th, 2024, from Well Go USA.

A mythical war from 3000 years ago between immortals, monsters, and humans, Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms shows a small part of the battles and serves as an opening to a much larger story.

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Hanky Panky (2023)

Posted on May 25, 2024 by Felix Vasquez

Now Available to stream on VOD.

It takes a special kind of balls to make a film so utterly abstract and bizarre and not pay the cast. But the press release insists that “nobody got paid” therefore they must have had a lot of faith in this project. Lindsay Haun and Nick Roth’s horror comedy is a weird cabin in the woods sitcom that pits a bunch of new age yuppies against a weird evil force. This force involves a sentient talking handkerchief, a supernatural fedora and a main protagonist who has an encyclopedic knowledge of finer materials and clothing fabrics.

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