When their plan to steal $14B goes sideways, a group of highly trained mercenaries takes refuge in a family house where they encounter something quite unexpected.
Better Days (2019)
As bullying in and outside of school intensifies for a teenage girl, she finds that she has few resources and feels alone in the world. As things escalate even further, a teenage boy who looks like an unlikely protector takes her under his wing so that she can get her schooling, take her placement test, and do well in life.
Sam & Mattie Make a Zombie Movie (2021)
Two best friends who love horror films and want to make their own are followed by one of their brothers to make a a documentary of their process. This is the documentary that follows these two friends who have more ideas than they can count and talent enough to make them happen. Just so happens they have Down Syndrome, but they’re not going to let that stop them.
Goodbye Honey (2021)
An exhausted long distance truck driver is met with an insistent young woman as she stops for the night. The young woman tells her she has been kidnapped and that someone is after her. As they piece together the story leading to this moment, the two of them find themselves under attack.
New Deal for Artists (1981)
When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president during the midst of the Great Depression, one of his most ambitious programs to combat the widespread poverty and unemployment of the day was the Works Progress Administration. This program was designed to upgrade and reinforce the national infrastructure, with a primary focus on construction projects involving roads, government buildings and bridges.
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Top 5 Tex Avery Animated Shorts
I’ve been a huge fan of Tex Avery since I was a small child. I spent most of my childhood cutting my teeth on animation from masters like Bob McKimson, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, and the Fleischer Brothers, and Avery always had his own unusual style. For years he worked at Warner producing the Looney Tunes shorts, and produced some of his best work at MGM Studios. Avery’s work is bizarre, innovative, and so absolutely funny that they still manage to produce laughter just as much as the classic Looney Tunes.
This year, Warner released two whole (long overdue) volumes of uncut, unedited Tex Avery shorts on Blu-Ray for animation fans and collectors alike. In celebration of that release, I thought I’d list five of my all time favorite Tex Avery shorts, most of which were produced with MGM Studios.
Are there any shorts from Tex Avery that you love that I didn’t list? Let us know in the comments!
The Bootleg Files: Tin Pan Alley Cats
BOOTLEG FILES 765: “Tin Pan Alley Cats” (1943 Warner Bros. animated short).
LAST SEEN: On DailyMotion.com.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Withheld from release due to politically incorrect humor.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely.
In today’s woke environment, the possibility of giving a second chance to the long-banned racially insensitive Warner Bros. cartoons collectively known as the “Censored Eleven” is nil. At least one of these cartoons, the 1943 “Tin Pan Alley Cats,” is certainly deserving to be kept out of circulation – but not so much for its broadly demeaning caricatures as for the laziness and sloppiness that went into its creation.
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