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Ah, social media — where complete strangers can be in-your-face douchebags to a degree they’d never try in person. For the occasion in question, a friend had posted a photo of a Latter-day Saint temple on social media, and commenters rushed in with the standard jackassery — “world’s biggest cult,” “how could ANYONE believe,” nurf…

War of the God Monsters (1985) – A “lost” kaiju film made in South Korea, this movie boasts two almost unrelated storylines: A scientist who’s been ridiculed for his theory about prehistoric monsters soon to awaken has moved to a remote town with his pre-school daughter while he conducts his “research” (which seems to be…

November 1, 1997 – November 20, 2021 The phrase “a tortured soul” has been used semi-romantically to describe many artistic people. But Jason was very much a tortured soul without the romantic connotations.  He’d had behavioral problems since childhood; he was diagnosed with Asperger’s in adolescence, plus major depression; recently two professionals had floated the…

Bounty Hunters (2016) – A light-hearted Hong Kong action flick following two ex-Interpol agents who are now barely scraping by with their own bumbling security company; when their client is killed, they fall in with a three-person bounty hunter team and get involved in international intrigue between Korea, China and Thailand. Much guns, many boom….

I’ve caught up to my sketchbooks again, so apart from the occasional sketch that’s destined for my Etsy shop, these will be the last sketches of the day until my current sketchbook is full.

Blastfighter (1984) – Lamberto Bava gives us an action-adventure which is mostly First Blood (1982) with a little bit of Mad Max (1979) mixed in (not The Road Warrior (1981), mind — that’s an entirely different ripoff lineage).  Flash-in-the-pan action star Michael Sopkiw is a former cop who spent time in prison for killing a…

As has been the tradition lo these many years, the Friday before Halloween my kids and I settle in as I just start playing one movie after another until the last of us gives up. Here’s this year’s recap. A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) – As is also part of the tradition, the first movie…

[The WordPress widget that posts updates from Goodreads in the sidebar stopped working a while ago, and I can’t find a replacement. So I guess I’ll just have to cross-post my reviews.] The last (first) time I read this was at least thirty years ago. I would love to say that the fact that it’s…