Pop-Up is a feature-length drama written and directed by Stuart McBratney. It was filmed in Newcastle, Australia, and Transylvania, Romania, and features interweaving stories of three strangers affected by one event. An unemployed father finds a camera containing a single photo of a woman's face. Smitten, he tracks her down. A Romanian immigrant attempts to overcome her heartbreak by giving away home-made pop-up cards. And a sleep-deprived theatre director seeks deadly revenge on a scathing...
The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pope Pius XII of complicity in the Holocaust, and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story remained untold... the Vatican's covert effort to assassinate the Fuhrer.
Collected from over two decades of Popeye theatrical shorts, this anthology sees the spinach-loving, wisecracking sailor run for president, open a roadside diner, meet Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and star in his own version of Aladdin.
"Oh, boy!" Popeye says when he and Olive Oyl embark on a quest for hidden gold. "We'll be wealthy millionaires -- and rich too!" Vol. 2 of the mighty mariner's spinach-fortified exploits offers riches aplenty: 31 original, remastered and uncut cartoons, plus a sea chest of sparkling extras. Lanky goyl Olive Oyl is here, dreaming of sailing matrimonial seas with the old salt (and frenetically coping with Popeye's nephews, Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye). Bluto, in a rage of theatrical...
"I yam what I yam," Popeye says. And what he yam is the greatest swabbie ever to sail the cartoon seas, a savvy old salt with outsized forearms and an even larger sense of fair play. Step aboard, mates, for the bestest with the mostest: 60 original (and uproarious) theatrical shorts from the innovative Max Fleischer Cartoon Studio. Here, you'll find spindly Olive Oyl, burger opportunist Wimpy, lil' Swee'pea, brooding Bluto and even a pair of rare, full-color, two-reel extravaganzas that...
Prepare for 17 newly adventures featuring our favorite spinach-eating sailor man and his lovely leading lady, Olive Oyl. This set finishes out Popeye's second decade of screen stardom with cartoons originally released to movie theaters in 1948 and 1949. Providing more globe-trotting and time-traveling adventures, the cartoons have been restored to look their lavish best utilizing the techniques of three classic color systems. The Polacolor process was a short-lived 3-strip technique designed...
Lost at sea for decades -- this set collects the first two Technicolor seasons of Popeye's animated theatrical shorts (1943-44 and 1944-45), making them available for the first time ever on home video: complete, intact and outrageously funny. What else would you expect from a two-fisted, spinach-munching sailor man? The 1940s brought new sights and sounds to America's favorite cartoon star. Regulars Olive Oyl and Bluto return, while Popeye resumes his riotous relationship with his shipmate...
Here come 15 previously unreleased adventures featuring our favorite two-fisted fighter that are literally out of this world! The secret to the seaman's success is "location, location, location," and with this new collection, you'll travel with Popeye and crew into outer space, all around the globe and under the sea! Continuing the chronological theatrical releases, this set covers the years 1946 and 1947. Popeye not only rockets to Mars, he explores the ocean deep, becomes a cowboy out West,...
Greetinks, mates! Welcome back to Popeye's world, where pocket change can get you a burger and a cuppa joe. And where, if you cross the Sailor Man's sense of fair play, he'll throw in a sock to the jaw for free! That sense gets crossed big time in these 32 treasures. 'Cause in addition to Problem Pappy, Olive's Sweepstake Ticket and other tales of home 'n' hearth, you'll find many of Popeye's spinach-enriched World War II adventures. There's a nation to proteck! So he out-rivets Bluto to build...
With TV reruns of the Fleischer/Famous Studios theatrical shorts proving that Popeye still packed a spinach-powered punch that delivered smash ratings, King Features commissioned a new series of Sailor Man shorts under the aegis of executive producer Al Brodax. The TV incarnation of Popeye made up for its scaled-back animation with a broadened narrative scope and scale while still staying true to the source, thanks to the continued use of voice actors Jack Mercer (Popeye), Mae Questel (Olive)...
In this enchanting film, Alan Arkin stars as a struggling Puerto Rican father who seizes on an outlandish plan to give his boys a better life. He sets them adrift in a boat off of Florida, hoping they will be rescued and raised by a wealthy family!
After being kicked out of the Circus, Popovich gets stuck in a little desert town on his way to Hollywood. He works a series of dead-end jobs in hopes of getting free, but winds up even deeper in a cycle of comic mischief and revenge.
A young couple from Mexico decide to come to the U.S. in search of the "American Dream". Illegals in a foreign country, no family, no friends. They are forced to confront the choices they have made.
Fidencio Barrenillo (Cantinflas, Around the World in 80 Days) is on his way to Arizona in order to claim his late great-grandfather's deed for a silver mine. However, he finds himself caught up in a series of dangerous and comedic adventures while battling Apaches and vicious gunmen who have their eyes on Fidencio's silver. A clever satire of the "Spaghetti Westerns" of the 1960s, POR MIS PISTOLAS is an entertaining film filled with action and comedy.
That's NOT all, folks! Warner Bros. first cartoon superstar, everyone's favorite pantless porcine, Porky Pig, takes center stage. From his humble beginnings as the breakout star of a schoolhouse talent show in I Haven't Got a Hat to his slimmer, slaphappy sidekick stage alongside Daffy Duck in Porky Pig's Feat, across Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes, in two-strip Technicolor and scintillating black and white, Porky's ascent from rascally school gang member to superstar spokespig is fully on...
'Porndemic' takes us behind the scenes of the 1998 HIV outbreak that tore through the Hollywood adult film industry, threatening its very existence, and told by the people who experienced it.
Four repressed teens and a projectionist working at a small-town movie theater discover a secret room filled with vintage exploitation films. Playing one of the old films unleashes a demon who attempts to seduce each of them and steal their souls.
French feminist icon, filmmaker and adult film director Ovidie investigates shocking modern changes in the foreign adult film industry, including how the arrival of websites showing amateur and pirated clips has transformed the way porn is made and consumed. In her investigation, she exposes how a group of programmers have hijacked the adult industry to create a mysterious multinational corporation that virtually controls the entire adult industry worldwide. This Blu-ray features a special...
French feminist icon, filmmaker and adult film director Ovidie investigates shocking modern changes in the foreign adult film industry, including how the arrival of websites showing amateur and pirated clips has transformed the way porn is made and consumed. In her investigation, she exposes how a group of programmers have hijacked the adult industry to create a mysterious multinational corporation that virtually controls the entire adult industry worldwide. This DVD features a special...