This was part of the preshow for Bad News Bears, watched with my family at the Trylon.

I mean, I love movies, and I'm kind of a movie nerd, right? I've seen some stuff; I know some trivia. It pleases me no end how much more intensely movie-nerd the Trylon people are. They do so much to help people enjoy movies. (The feeling is general, but also rises specifically from the fact that they found film prints of this short…

What an odd mix of a movie. It felt approximately half Reanimator-adjacent (just a hint of Tammy and the T-Rex, and more than a hint of The Terminator in that half) and half 'this is a long episode of Walker, Texas Ranger.' The two halves were so poorly connected that Chuck Norris didn't seem to realize he never got the alleged dead guy from the institute/hospital/medical malpractice factory.

The scene early on where the ex girlfriend was driving Chuck Norris…

I saw this free on youtube, with somewhat dodgy, possibly automatically-generated subtitles under the Russian intertitles (except on occasion, where there was only the Russian with no English subtitle at all). I wonder if it would've made any more sense had I been able to access this through something like Criterion instead of through youtube.

I feel like Dovzhenko did an excellent job showing the horror of war without ever showing explicit violence so far as I recall. Shadows with…