Gentry Lee, a NASA engineer and sci-fi author, leads a documentary of the history of the search for alien life and the love of space through the lens of his life in director Robert Stone’s fascinating documentary Starman.
The Eel (1997) [Radiance Films]
Now available from Radiance Films
A man who killed his cheating wife is sent to prison. When he is released, he has to find meaning to his life and make a living, so he opens a barbershop and brings in his pet eel from the prison.
FOUR MOTHERS [SIFF2025]
An author’s life becomes complicated after his friends leave their mothers with him as they go to Pride in the wonderful Irish comedy-drama Four Mothers, the opening film of the 51st Seattle International Film Festival.
The Bootleg Files: A Weighty Problem
BOOTLEG FILES 907: “A Weighty Problem” (1980 educational filmstrip featuring characters from “The Flintstones”).
LAST SEEN: A restored version is on YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Educational filmstrips have no perceived commercial reissue value.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely, unless a documentary on the subject is made.
If you were a K-12 student in American schools during the 1960s and 1970s, you probably remember the use of filmstrips in your classes. Filmstrips were a spool of 35mm film that featured still photographs on each frame. The filmstrips were shown via a hand-operated projector, with one frame at a time projected on a screen while a soundtrack recording on either an album or a cassette tape provided narration or character dialogue to match the images. The soundtrack recording would offer a beep or a ding, which was the cue to the projector’s operator to turn the spool to the next image.
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Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025) [Now Playing]
Stefani is having terrifying dreams of an accident from sixty years in the past. Searching for why puts her in Death’s sights in Final Destination: Bloodlines, the first entry in the franchise in 14 years.
Ninja (2009) [Martial Arts May]
An American orphan raised in Japan on the art of ninjutsu must return to New York City to protect an important chest of historical weapons from an old arch enemy in Ninja.
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