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Good Guys Wear Black (1978) – Chuck Norris tries to find out who is killing the old members of his covert ‘Nam team. In the course of such investigation, roundhouse kicks are deployed. I swear I don’t go into mindless action flicks with my expectations too high — I do appreciate the “mindless,” after all…

Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2018) – A supposedly lost movie from the ’70s about a brother and sister digging a hole to Hell is sandwiched between documentary segments explaining its reputation, that showing or viewing the movie consistently leads to madness or death. It’s not the first time that gimmick has been used…

(Missed a day.)

As I was discussing on Twitter the need to reform the U.S. Tax Code (which everyone acknowledges needs to be fixed, and nobody knows how to do it), I had an interesting idea which definitely needs to be explored for feasibility. Let me state at the outset that, yes, I know well the H.L. Mencken…

Including the conclusion of the “Lila Rae” series begun last week.

If you don’t currently read Public Square Magazine, a Latter-day Saint-flavored venue of thoughtful discussion on politics and culture, then you might not have discovered that I’ve started providing vaguely New Yorker-esque one-panel cartoons for them, updated biweekly.  Here are the first couple: (My work is the least of the attractions at Public Square Magazine….

The sketches at the bottom (continuing into next week) need an explanation: I dreamed that my neighbor and friend Lila Rae had become a bus driver. As she’s very shy and retiring, it’s definitely off-brand for her. I mentioned it to her at church, and then, because church is where I doodle in my sketchpad…

Pitch Black (2000) – Look, for years and years the majority of the movies I watched were those I was reviewing.  That meant that I often didn’t see the movies that everyone else was talking about, okay? DON’T JUDGE ME. Anyway. This movie is a perfect illustration of how a motion picture, with its visceral…