THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#199 [archive]
10/23/2023
The Night Strangler (1973)
Streaming free
In the 1970s, there was a show on TV called Kolchak: The Night Stalker. … [read more]

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FILM FESTIVAL
#198 [archive]
10/22/2023
The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1941)
Streaming free
A mad scientist (the best kind, if you’re making a horror movie) offers a hungry, indigent man $1,000 to participate in an experiment. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S
BROWSER HISTORY
#374  [archive]
10/22/2023

Every click on this page is personally guaranteed! If you skip even one link, your life will be lessened by never knowing the marvels you’ve missed. … [read more]

THE POLICE PROBLEM
#2 [archive]
10/22/2023
 • Police dog’s attack on Black trucker in Ohio echoes history• He was beaten to death in a Los Angeles jail, and it took staff nearly 4 hours to notice• Sweet plea deal gives Philadelphia cop as little as 15 years for 200+ counts of child rape, kiddie porn, etc
• Arizona prosecutor who was fired after working with police to falsely charge protesters as ‘gang members’ stands by her actions
    Excerpt:  “People
can be out there taking photos of the sunset and then go home and
murder their spouse,” Sponsel said in response to a question from her
attorney. … [read more]

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FILM FESTIVAL
#197  [archive]
10/20/2023
God Bless America (2011)Rarely has a movie grabbed me so quickly.God Bless America opens with Frank, a pudgy middle-aged nobody, lying in bed and hating his neighbors in the next apartment, as they watch TV too loud, talk too stupid, and their baby won’t stop crying. … [read more]

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#196  [archive]
10/20/2023
The Naked City (1948)This is a dark police procedural that still holds up, which spawned a lesser TV series with its famous tag line, “There are eight million stories in the naked city.”The … [read more]

THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#195  [archive]
10/19/2023
Solaris (1972)Once upon a long time ago, I had a Republican friend, and we both liked movies, so when Solaris played at Seattle’s Neptune Theater, we went together. … [read more]

Well, look what’s back — it’s my occasional roundup of bad cop clippings…

THE POLICE PROBLEM
#1 [archive]
10/19/2023

    The police problem is that police are policed by the police. … [read more]

THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#194  [archive]
10/17/2023
Jesus of Montreal (1989)In this truly moving motion picture, a parish priest has been staging the same ‘stations of the cross’ play for 35 years. … [read more]

My three flatmates in this shared house are ‘L’, who smokes dope and mostly keeps to himself; Robert, a nice old guy who plays World of Warcraft around the clock; and Dean, an extrovert who’s quiet so rarely I’m certain he talks in his sleep (about boring things). … [read more]