
A film by Henry Stone
2023-11-10
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0.0A mediocre superhero discovers his powers and sort of overcomes his inferiority complex.
4.0Christmas Eve. An enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere on their busiest night.
0.0A bustling and average police precinct is disrupted when a frantic teenager enters with a huge problem.
0.0Another day, another university writing workshop on Zoom. When a frustrated student gets some unwanted feedback from his classmates, he decides to give a little feedback of his own.
0.0Go 'behind-the-scenes' of a British nature show in this comic mockumentary: a camera-girl (with a unique sense of humor) and a marine biologist (with a unique passion for whales) go searching for the loneliest whale in the world (a real whale born with a unique vocal frequency, too high for the others to hear.)
9.5Tara is denied electricity bill support by Social Services, who tells her to simply get a free grill instead - a task that leads Tara into uncomfortable situations. Inspired by true events, "Grill" offers a satirical look at how a rich country in Scandinavia deals with poverty.
10.0A man fantasises and has a power trip over what he would do if he became rich.
6.8Abandoned by her husband, a woman takes to the streets in search of money to feed her children. (Promotional short for the film What Have I Done to Deserve This?, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.)
0.0When Harry unwittingly releases a she-demon in a Burbank Cemetery, undertaker Crawford kills him in a freak accident and must recruit Harry's newly minted ghost to send the succubus (Crawford's ex-wife) back to where she came from.
0.0After getting dumped for being "too nice," Jade Williams has until the end of a church service to convince his girlfriend he's actually a wild man.
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.
4.9An animated short chronicling the adventures of Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd.
4.9Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live specimens, he has prepared a series of pictures of his subjects. He explains that the subject is made more complicated by the fact that polyps are able to change their sex from time to time. Then he presents some of the pictures of his specimens and the experiments that he has done with them.
A stubborn English tourist visits a Norwegian hotel with a vending machine and a sign with the text "No Coke". Based on true events.
4.9Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.
0.0A crime gone wrong only gets worse as the criminals are forced to take two unwitting hostages caught in the back of their car.
5.2When a glamour photographer runs over a child's pet, he's forced to fabricate a story about its disappearance.
6.5A single middle aged lady working as receptionist and cleaner in a public lavatory for men spends her time between chores reading "Happy Woman" and daydreaming about a loving partner. When an unknown man starts leaving flowers at her desk, she gets excited but also increasingly stressed out trying to figure out who is her secret admirer or, perhaps, the prankster.
7.8A pandemic and two different individuals under the same roof. The trigger for it all is a sneeze. Anna and Vicent are forced to coexist with the new reality, surpassing the limits of the absurd.