The Gateway, aka Curtain (2015) – The premise seems ready-made for a surreal comedy: A woman moves alone into a cheap apartment, and finds that her shower curtain keeps disappearing. Finally setting a camera up to observe it, she finds that it’s being sucked into… nowhere. But it’s not played for laughs. Danni (Danni Smith)…
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Movies Seen Recently: Trollhunter, Flesh & Blood, Predestination
Trollhunter (2010) – A terrific mockumentary about three Norwegian college filmmakers who think they’re tracking down and documenting a poacher — a mysterious outdoorsman who parks his shabby camper in various campgrounds and drives out into the woods and night… But nope, he’s actually the Norwegian government’s one-and-only troll manager, hunting down and dispatching trolls…
Television Through the Wire!
I found this left as a forgotten bookmark (not mine, I’ve never been to Cleveland) in a 1983 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: One NBC affiliate, two ABC, one CBS, three PBS, and four independent. Plus C-Span, USA, MTV, the Weather Channel, ESPN, CNN, and all the filler that nobody ever…
Movies Seen Recently: The Delta Force, Radius, Broken Arrow
The Delta Force (1986) – Israeli director/co-producer/co-writer Menahem Golan has given us two movies in one here. One is a hijacking drama, inspired loosely a real-life hijacking in 1985, in which Islamic terrorists grab a plane after takeoff in Athens. Islamic terrorists are not known for their fondness of Jews, especially Israeli Jews, and so…
Movies Seen Recently: The Adventurers, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Quest For the Mighty Sword
The Adventurers (2017) – A Chinese jewel thief (Andy Lau) gets out of a French prison intent on pulling the requisite One Last JobTM, despite the cop who put him there (Jean Reno) keeping close tabs on him. Also, Shu Qi is one of the team the thief puts together, and everyone just stops and…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
One available in my Etsy store… …and six from my sketchbook:
Project 2025 — I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
Once I realized that “Project 2025” was going to be the Democrats’ latest boogeyman, a vague title to which they can ascribe any number of fever-dream warnings about a second Trump presidency because no one has read the damned thing, I decided to read the damned thing. Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. The whole…