September 29: The first episode of The Huckleberry Hound Show is broadcast, produced by Hanna-Barbera.September 6: The first episode of The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole is broadcast.Cartoons and starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam.
March 8: Chuck Jones' Robin Hood Daffy, produced by Warner Bros.A few fake scares and Katie Holmes' terrified grimaces are not enough to make a horror film.1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s To make things even worse, "The Boy II" is entirely without blood, violence or casualties. Every dreadful cliché you can think of features here: disturbing children's drawings, disappearing dogs, supposedly lifeless dolls turning their heads or disappearing in the blink of an eye, bullying teens getting what they deserve, etc. What initially looks like an efficient auxiliary to help Jude communicate again, quickly turns into an even bigger nightmare because Brahms the doll takes full possession of the emotionally vulnerable child. At the estate surrounding an old gothic mansion, Jude finds an antique porcelain doll buried in the ground. In an attempt to process the events, the family moves to a vacationing house in the countryside. Since then, mommy suffers from anxiety and nightmares, while her 8-year-old son Jude stopped talking altogether. Katie Holmes (since many years in desperate need of a career reboot) depicts a mom who, together with her son, went through a traumatizing home-jacking experience. A sequel was inevitable, and although overall very watchable and adequately made, "The Boy II" is the most stereotypical, by-the-numbers and clichéd sequel there can be. It had a fairly original concept, and made good use of the constantly sinister atmosphere and a couple of effectively unsettling moments. I rather dug "The Boy", William Brent Bell's first film from 2016. Hopefully you read/hummed this review's subject title in the exact same way as you would sing the lyrics to The Beatles' classic song "Hey Jude".
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