NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #265  [archive] MAR. 23, 2024

Writing is the only thing that makes me feel human, and the last thing left in life that I enjoy. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #410  [archive] MAR. 22, 2024

Ruth Bader Ginsburg award ceremony canceled after fallout over honorees
   
I’ve always thought highly of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and I’ll continue
to, but she must’ve been a doddering shell of senility in her last
years, as she stayed on the Supreme Court when Obama could’ve named her
replacement, and died instead for Donald Trump. … [read more]

The Fantasist (1986)
Streaming free at Tubi

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #264  [archive] MAR. 21, 2024

From Robin Hardy, the director of the classic Wicker Man, this is a thriller that has it way with women, via a psychopathic killer who makes obscene calls before his murders, blah blah blah. … [read more]

I’ve known a lot of nuts in my life. What’s the polite term? “Mentally ill”? “Emotionally disturbed”? “Has issues”? Nah, nuts. That’s the catch-all word for malfunctions between the ears. … [read more]

The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
Streaming free at Internet Archive

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #263  [archive] MAR. 19, 2024

This opens as an amiable light comedy, with Peter Lorre as a new immigrant to America, stumbling over the English language, finding a room to rent, looking for a job, etc. … [read more]

Riding the bus back from breakfast on Saturday, a man stepped aboard carrying two black garbage bags, and talking loudly, but I couldn’t make out a word. … [read more]

There’s a lot going on in the news, very little of it good. That’s the way it always is, but you and I and everyone knows it’s gotten worse. … [read more]

Elephant (1989)
Streaming free at YouTube
“For some of us, ‘the troubles’ is the elephant in our living room.”

Welcome to Northern Ireland: Some guy walks into a rec center, spots a janitor cleaning up a shower, and shoots him dead. … [read more]