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289 | Cloud

  • Unrated

  • Runtime: 2hr 4min

  • Written & Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

  • Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa and Daiken Okudaira

  • Premiered at Venice International Film Festival August 30, 2024

  • Released in US (limited) July 18, 2025

  • RT: 93% critics / 61% audience 

  • Currently streaming on Criterion or available to rent

    Synopsis

    Yoshii lives in Tokyo and resells goods on the internet as a side hustle while working in a factory. When Yoshii takes his reselling gig to the next level and quits his day job, he and his girlfriend leave the city for a house in the country. There it seems that Yoshii is being targeted by an unknown assailant. But with a profession that traffics in pissing a lot of people off, which of his enemies has it out for him?

 

Horror Homework

This episode:

  • The Innocents  - 1961 - Jack Clayton - rental

  • Wait Until Dark - 1967 - Terence Young - rental

Next time:

  • The Legend of Hell House  - 1973 - John Hough - rental only

  • The Changeling - 1980 - Peter Medak - Tubi


Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing the quarterly release from Oz Perkins, Keeper, opening in theaters November 14.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

275 | Sinners

  • Rated

  • Runtime: 2hr 17min

  • Written & Directed by Ryan Coogler

  • Stars: Miles Caton, Saul Williams and Michael B. Jordan

  • Released theaters April 18, 2025

  • RT: 98% critics / 97%  audience

    Synopsis

    Twin brothers return to their home town in 1930s Mississippi to open a juke joint with money stolen from the Chicago mob. Opening night festivities take a turn for the worse when vampires arrive at the juke joint to be let in.

 

Join us in two weeks when we review Repo: The Genetic Opera, which is currently streaming on Prime.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/