After eight seasons of poor off-screen behaviour, sitcom character Martin Dreggs has been killed off. Will the actor who plays him get a second chance at fame when the show broadcasts live? Drawing from sitcom inspirations absorbed throughout an entire childhood, writer/director Samuel Bortolazzo stages a complex family dilemma within the vessel of a television sitcom.
Max Dreggs
Martin Dreggs / Uncle Jack
Margarine Dreggs
Daisy Dreggs
Eamon Dreggs
Lucy Smitherines
Sad Cop
Mr Lockhead
Showrunner
After eight seasons of poor off-screen behaviour, sitcom character Martin Dreggs has been killed off. Will the actor who plays him get a second chance at fame when the show broadcasts live? Drawing from sitcom inspirations absorbed throughout an entire childhood, writer/director Samuel Bortolazzo stages a complex family dilemma within the vessel of a television sitcom.
2024-11-26
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Horacio reunites with his father and together remember the past.
Seppo, a forestry machine driver, receives an email from a mysterious woman called Miss Zahra, telling him about her money problems. Although his close friends claim the letter is a hoax, Seppo decides to follow his love abroad and save his heart for the chosen one.
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.
The film focuses on the thoughts inside the head of a man, an astronaut scheduled to go to the Moon. As he ponders the flight, he laments having an “ordinary” name he fears will not resonate throughout history. His thoughts lead him to consider some of the pioneers of flight-Icarus and his wings, the Montgolfier brothers and their balloon and the Wright brothers and heavier than air flight.
My Snowman's Burning Down is an American short film made by Carson Davidson in 1964, with music composed and performed by Gerry Mulligan. A surrealistic and humorous satire on the Madison Avenue image of the world through advertising. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
A short horror comedy following Muckman, that grotty dirty fellow who targets the elderly with his rot coated fingers, causing a fuss and being a bother.
Set in Northern California in the late sixties, So Much Yellow is a short, dramatic film about a young girl and the family road trip that changes her life forever. Inspired by true stories, this film depicts the difficult decision one family makes to institutionalize their young son who has Down syndrome.
In a world where drought is everywhere, a little village survives thanks to a machine that turns clouds into drinking water. Unfortunately one of the village inhabitants will make the cloud take flight.
A team sent by the government is here to protect humanity from tornadoes. Bruce, Walter and Barrett are part of the Anti Tornado Squad and are ready to deal with that one-of-a-kind mission.
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).
A father attempts to reconnect with his daughter on her wedding day.
A woman becomes a Lyft driver and tries to reinvent her life.
An organ left over after an operation causes turbulence in sober everyday hospital life.
In a cold world where nearly all of mankind has lost it's emotions, a young mother faces an impossible choice when her son is submitted life supporting medical care.
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