Meet the humantises, beings that are masters of deception but unsure about changing themselves.
Only the Strong (1993) [Martial Arts May]
A Green Beret comes home from war to find his high school overrun with gang violence and drugs, and must use the powers of capoeira to protect the students from a dangerous drug lord in Only the Strong.
CAPSULE REVIEWS 2! [SIFF2025]
In the final review set from this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, Bob presents short reviews for Tales from the Magic Garden, The Things You Kill, Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers, and Twinless.
The Shining (1980)
My problem with “The Shining” is that it was made at the wrong time by the wrong people. It should have been made by the Columbia Pictures short subjects department in the mid-1940s with Shemp Howard as Jack Torrance, Vera Vague as Wendy Torrance, Dudley Dickerson as Dick Halloran, and (in a loan-out from Hal Roach) Billy “Froggy” Laughlin as Danny Torrance. And behind the camera, Jules White would direct the film by filling the Overlook Hotel with a gorilla throwing pies and skeletons operating on clearly visible wires.
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Tunnel Vision (1976) [MVD Rewind]
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An uncensored television station from the future sees its content analyzed by the government.
SORRY BABY [SIFF2025]
A woman’s life leading up to and after a trauma is explored in a non-linear telling of Eva Victor’s thoughtful, sad, yet honestly funny debut feature, Sorry Baby, the closing film of the 51st Seattle International Film Festival.
Rock Bottom (2024) [Cleopatra Entertainment]
Available now from Cleopatra Entertainment
Two young artists in a destructive relationship live through the 70s hippie era and find themselves through it all.