In Wes Anderson’s fun but flawed The Phoenician Scheme, a businessman takes his nun daughter and Swedish tutor on a world-trotting adventure to make a deal before his assassins catch up to him.
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Friendship [2025]
The Bikini Carwash Company Set (1992/1993) [MVD Rewind]
This new set just released by MVD Rewind includes The Bikini Carwash Company I and II.
Zénithal (2024)
A man accused of murdering his old rival falls prey to a demented surgeon with a goal of male domination, and must be saved by his longtime romantic partner in an all out absurdly outrageous battle of the sexes in Zenithal.
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]
Available now from MVD Rewind
An uncensored television station from the future sees its content analyzed by the government.