NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #253  [archive] MAR. 5, 2024

The Darjeeling Limited (2007)This is a Wes Anderson movie, and most of the story is set on a train rolling across India. … [read more]

Crime Without Passion (1934)Streaming free at YouTube

This starts with an amazing opening for 1934, as three “sisters of Evil” rise up from Hades, flying like bats, intercut with imagery of murders. … [read more]

Cosmos (1980)Streaming free at Internet Archive
“How did the universe arise? What was around before that?”

Here’s the answer to that question, and other things you’ve wondered about while high.Carl … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #407  [archive] MAR. 2, 2024

Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history
    You’ll be seeing headlines like this more and more often, for the rest of your life.  … [read more]

Cocaine: One Man’s Seduction (1983)Streaming free on Tubi

This is a TV movie about cocaine, secretly underwritten by the DEA, I’m sure.Times are tough for Eddie Gant (Dennis Weaver), a California real estate agent who’s going gray, and isn’t making as many big deals as he used to. … [read more]

There’s no higher state of humanity than doing something nice for someone you love, and knowing she’d soon do something nice for me. Dang me, I miss my wife. … [read more]

Children of Men (2007)

Set in the near future, there are no children in this movie, because an unspecified but perfectly plausible plague has rendered the entire human race barren. … [read more]

Haven’t had generic Spam in ages, but a can of it was on my tiny shelf in the kitchen. One evening I accidentally knocked the can over, remembered the Spam was there, and all night long had a hankering. … [read more]

Call Her Savage (1932)Streaming free at YouTube

Nasa Springer is out for a good time, but fiery-tempered when anyone does her wrong. In an early scene, she whips a rattlesnake into retreat, and when her companion — a ‘half-breed’ Indian — laughs, she turns the whip onto him.Despite … [read more]

Brady’s Bargain (1983) Streaming free at Irish Film Institute

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #247  [archive] FEB. 26, 2024

From theater-owner and very indy moviemaker Roy Spence, this is a story of leprechauns. … [read more]