Be warned: this will shock, alarm, repulse, and revolt you! Showtime has unveiled an official trailer for a series titled
Cinema Toast, an experimental pandemic-created mash-up of old cinema classics. Created by filmmaker
Jeff Baena, Cinema Toast takes old footage now in the public domain, and updates it again. Wildly experimental new series from an eclectic group of celebrated indie filmmakers who’ve re-edited and re-scored footage from public domain films and overdubbed them with performances of contemporary actors to tell new, wholly original stories. The fun voiceover cast includes Fred Armisen, Alison Brie, Nicole Byer, Colman Domingo, Chloe Fineman, Jake Johnson, Christina Ricci, Chris Meloni, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Stevens, Lorraine Toussaint, and many others. This has already launched on Showtime and all the first episodes are already streaming - I m just catching up with it because it sounds amusing and wacky. And it reminds me of the wa