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Nightworld (2017) – I’m always a sucker for intriguing, mysterious premise: In this case, former police officer Brett is hired to watch the surveillance cameras somewhere behind the sealed door in the basement of an historic Bulgarian apartment building. What’s he supposed to look for? Anything. What’s he supposed to do? Call this number. Any…

My “commute” was a full ten minutes.  Normally I just listened to the radio, but I’d left a book-on-tape playing last night, and just let it keep rolling through the commute.  Finally, in the left turn lane into the parking lot, the audiobook hit a stopping spot and I turned it off, allowing the radio…

Devil in the Dark (2017) – Two estranged brothers on a camping trip encounter a giant silicon-based pan pizza… wait, that’s a DIFFERENT “Devil in the Dark.”  In this, two estranged brothers go camping somewhere in the high Pacific northwest and… strange stuff happens.  It’s a very well-acted and well-written production as far as dialogue…

With FanX (formerly Salt Lake Comic Con) coming up in a week and a half, this is normally the point at which I’d start regaling you with where my table will be in Artists Alley, what panels I’ll be on, what new art prints and originals I’ll have for sale… However, late last week FanX…

Venomous (2001) – Pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a “dangerous animals” flick directed by Fred Olen Ray (here using the name “Ed Raymond”): Treat Williams stars (and a bunch of people that you’ve probably seen before but never learned their names co-star — shout-out to Marc McClure!); shooting locations for “super-secret government lab”…

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) – 2014’s Godzilla worked, in my humble opinion, largely because the Big G wasn’t a character or personality so much as a force of nature, and people just did things around his feet to save themselves. Some of that was lost in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), as Godzilla was…