Bloodsucking Bastards (2015) – I almost turned it off because everyone we met in the first five minutes was intensely unlikeable (filmmakers, why do you DO that???), but once over that hurdle, it was a witty little low-budget* horror-comedy. Who knew that vampires are punctual, dependable, and oriented toward success? Too many F-bombs to show…
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Movies Seen Recently: Subspecies 4, Iron Monkey 2, Crypt of the Vampire
Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm (1998) – Here’s the thing about all of the Subspecies movies: They’re all pretty watered down. Yes, the Romanian scenery is nice, but the plot doesn’t move so much as tread water. Here, once again, unwilling vampire Michelle is fighting against being dragged to the dark side by Radu. And to add…
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
[crossposted to GoodReads] I’ll be honest: I didn’t go into this expecting to like it. I’m friends with Brad Torgersen, Larry Correia, and others who argued that the Hugo awards had become too left-wing political, with candidacy based more on political and “intersectional” stances than on quality and entertainment value, and I know that Jemisin…
Project Salamander.
Oh hey, I ought to mention this around here. Project Salamander is what resulted from an insane idea of mine: To write a round-robin novel with those writers I’d assembled to put together Writers Cantina, the speculative fiction writing conference that debuted this past July; I thought it could act both as a promo piece…
Faith.
[This is the talk I gave in sacrament meeting today. Latter-day Saint content ahead!] We’re going to be talking about deep doctrine today – the deepest, in fact, because it’s so foundational. It’s faith. It qualifies as a “deep doctrine” because, while it’s a word that many people use, very few understand it. Much of…
Sketch of the day Omnibus Post.
In the middle of this batch, I went off on a week-long vacation. You can’t even tell!
Movies Seen Recently: The Tomorrow War, The Dark Power, Vampire Journals
The Tomorrow War (2021) – Chris Pratt vs. Xenomorphs! Thirty years in the future, there’s an alien invasion, and Earth has almost fallen to the ferocious invasive species, basically the Alien franchise’s Xenomorphs with added all-natural projectile weapons. Running out of cannon fodder in the future, the last line of defense there starts drafting people…