A group of friends heads to paradise, visiting islands and boating to help of their own forget a bad breakup. Soon, they find themselves stranded as a shark starts hunting them.
Streaming Sundays: House of the Dragon (2022-)
After three years and much anticipation, we are now going back to the land of Westeros long before A Song of Ice and Fire…and it was well worth the wait.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (1981-82)
On this week’s episode of Saturday Morning Cartoons, come with us and reminisce about the early 1980s, a time when we got cartoons about just about anything and everything, when Around the World in 80 Days, Tom Sawyer, and a few others were turned into dogs (and sometimes cats) stories. The focus of today is on one particular instance of this that spawned a few reboots and films: Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds. Based on the book by Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers), something that has also been adapted by Disney with Mickey in the lead. Here, D’Artagnan is our lead, as usual, and he is now known as Dogtanian, because why not!
The Bootleg Files: The Plank
BOOTLEG FILES 812: “The Plank” (1967 British comedy film).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: It never made it across the Atlantic for a commercial release.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not in the U.S. market.
For every Benny Hill, Monty Python or “Are You Being Served?” that crossed the Atlantic, there are scores of British funnymen who either tried and failed to find an American audience or never gave it a go. Two of the most inventive and delightful British comics to find favor in their country, Eric Sykes and Tommy Cooper, are mostly unknown to Americans – and I might wonder if today’s younger Britons are familiar with these yesteryear stars.
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Montréal Girls (2022)
A move to Montréal for medical school brings out a side of Ramy that he had been wanting to let out. Through poetry, music, and local young women, he finds himself and his path in life.
Vamps (2012) [Female Filmmaker Friday]
Two young women, seemingly fairly normal, are vampires living in New York City, trying to find love and a point to this eternal life.
Glorious (2022)
A heartbroken man on a road trip finds himself at a rest stop where he drinks, sleeps, and finds his way in the deserted restroom. Finding himself locked in, he suddenly meets an entity speaking to him through a gloryhole.