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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) – Thieves! Half-elf magic users (I’m old-school)! Paladins! Owlbears! Side quests! Artifacts randomly found! The element missing in previous attempts at passive Dungeons & Dragons entertainment media is the humor — not as a spoof, but mimicking the fun interaction of players in a good D&D group. This…

Plans are underway for Writers Cantina, held this year on June 28-29 at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City. Last year, our “issue #0,” was a single day; this year, we’ve doubled that, and added space for more concurrent panels/presentations, plus more room for “the Cantina,” the big room in which pros,…

Top Gun (1986) – First time watching it in over 30 years, and I had forgotten pretty much everything except the “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” scene. Apparently, the message is the chicks will find you irresistible if you’re a pushy horn-doggin’ showoff who happens to be Tom Cruise. This is the movie that “made”…

Oh yeah, this! I hit the end of my sketchbook, so that threw me off my game. No more sketches of the day until the next one’s full.

One of My Wives is Missing (1976) – The title unfortunately makes it sound like a comedy, but it’s actually a mystery/thriller TV-movie based on a stage play called Trap for a Single Man (and my daughters have seen a production under the title Catch Me If You Can). Jack Klugman is a small-town police…

Wrongfully Accused (1998) – Leslie Nielsen in a spoof of The Fugitive, with Richard Crenna playing the Tommy Lee Jones part. Along the way there are other callouts and sight gags referencing Braveheart, North by Northwest, The Seven-Year Itch, and plenty of others. If you like this kind of movie, this is the kind of…