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"I've seen what drugged up driving can do... You know what drug I hate the most?" So they finally made a sequel to Team America: World Police! Well, not really. But this is about as close as anyone can get! A Puff Before Dying is an incredible 10-minute marionette short film, made by filmmakers Michael Reich and Mike Pinkney. Apparently this is a real PSA, but I can't find any info on for who - clearly one of the states where marijuana is legal now. (The "Federal Road Safety Foundation" is made up.) A wild night of pot and "drugged-up driving" ends in tragedy for three teenagers that happen to be marionettes. Please don't smoke and drive! Or else this! The voice cast: Annie Mebane, James Kirkland, Lola Blanc, Tashi Condelee, Michael Reich. Wherever this came from, it's amazing, I can't believe it's real. Take a hit and, uh, be safe.

No, don’t adjust your TV set nor frantically blink to try to focus, it’s supposed to look like that. She’s Allergic to Cats, the trippy collection of scenes held together by a handheld camera, wants you to feel like you’re watching it through the eyes of the filmmaker on screen who chops “video art” together with his camcorder. That’s just one of its trippy meta elements.

Mike Pinkney, the character, not necessarily the actor by the same name who plays the character, is a loser. He came to Hollywood to make movies, but he is stuck in his job as a dog groomer, spending nights in his rat-infested house making art and lusting over Cora (Sonja Kinski), the impossibly beautiful and vexing owner of one of the pets who came by his shop. With almost nothing going his way, from his absent (not physically) landlord and his quirky producer,...

"I can train you to be a true groomer." Whoaaaaa what is this?! An official trailer has arrived online for a film titled She's Allergic To Cats, a strange, experimental, fever dream love story that has been lost since 2016. This originally premiered back in 2016 at the Fantasia Film Festival (read the story about that wild premiere) but hasn't shown up anywhere since. Until now. It's getting a VOD release (on iTunes/Amazon) next month, almost four years after its initial debut. The film is about a dog groomer in La who pursues the woman of his dreams. It "has something for everyone. From cats taking on the roles from Carrie, dogs being bathed in slow-motion, beats to bop to, and a loveable underdog to root for." And it sounds / looks wacky. "Boundaries between reality, fantasy, art, romantic-comedy and horror collide in an explosion of distorted video art and psychological insanity.