Friday, August 1, 2025

Capitalism Proves Crushing in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Satirical Thriller Cloud (Though People With Guns Can Be Pesky, Too)

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CLOUD / Kuraudo  (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024, Japan, 124 minutes)  "You operate on impulse and instinct? No effort whatsoever?"--prosp...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Keeping the End in Sight in Kei Chika-ura’s Fractured Familial Procedural Great Absence

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GREAT ABSENCE / Oinaru Fuzai  (Kei Chika-ura, 2023, Japan, 134 minutes) The party's over. People know that but carry on as if they didn...
Friday, July 4, 2025

Jessie Maple’s Debut Will: Addiction and Redemption on the Mean Streets of Harlem

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WILL  (Jessie Maple, USA, 1981, 83 minutes)  Jessie Maple's first feature, a true independent effort, was an unusual enough feat for a w...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

The Cat and the Canary: Paul Leni's Winning Template for the “Old Dark House" Subgenre

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THE CAT AND THE CANARY  (Paul Leni, 1927, USA,  82 minutes)  "You're like your uncle–in a cage surrounded by cats."--Roger Cro...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Holly Woodlawn Takes Manhattan in Musical Comedy Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

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SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS  (Robert J. Kaplan, USA, 1972, 82 minutes)  I'm not certain if Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers wa...
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Saturday, June 7, 2025

Stranger Flashback: Doom Metal Pioneer Bobby Liebling Rises from the Grave in Last Days Here

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Here is a revived version of a 2012 Line Out post about  Last Days Here (these posts were purged from the internet some time after The Stra...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Stranger Flashback: A Peek Inside Jonathan Furmanski's The Weird World of Blowfly

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This is a revived version of a 2011 Line Out post ( The Stranger purged them from the internet some time after they pulled the plug on thei...