NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #228  [archive] DEC. 2, 2023

Between the Lines (1977)
Streaming free
This is a raucous but still mellow ensemble dramedy set at a Boston alt-weekly paper. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #389  [archive] DEC. 2, 2023

UAE oil CEO Sultan Al Jaber uses his role as UN climate summit president to push fossil fuel deals
    All these COP conferences are mighty monuments to the world’s increasingly hot air. … [read more]

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #227  [archive] NOV. 30, 2023

The Balcony (1963)
Streaming free
This is based on a play by Jean Genet, and never lets you forget it’s a play. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #388  [archive] NOV. 30, 2023

In Alabama, another small-town paper hit in ‘open season’ on free press
    Another obviously bogus raid on another small-town weekly newspaper. … [read more]

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #226  [archive] NOV. 28, 2023

Attack of the Saucer People (1981)
Streaming free
This is not the schlock you’d expect from the title. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #387  [archive] NOV. 28, 2023

Living in between the cracks of mainstream society
by Ace Backwords
    Yeah, I could live like that — sleep sitting on a toilet overnight, and then out by morning… Journalist and Kansas cop-accountability activist sue after being banned from homeless encampment  
    Police state stuff.  … [read more]

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) 

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #225  [archive] NOV. 27, 2023

Alice was an enjoyable sit-com of the 1970s and ’80s, about a dame working in a diner. … [read more]

When I was young, Seattle was a city of rain, frequent and sometimes ferocious. The very heavy rains I remember from decades ago don’t seem to happen very often any more. … [read more]

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #224  [archive] NOV. 26, 2023

Blood Quantum (2019)I am not a zombie flick aficionado, and this is a zombie flick, but it’s from Jeff Barnaby, who earned a BIG YES from me for Rhymes for Young Ghouls.Like … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #386  [archive] NOV. 25, 2023

Visit to the Fukushima nuclear facilities
    Beautiful photos of a scary place, because nuclear power is a stupid, stupid idea.  … [read more]