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Nothing for sale this week (I’ve been too busy to sit down and watch movies), but here are seven from my sketchbook:

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) – And now we’ve gone back to mining old episodes for under-explored ideas (or maybe just story concepts that they hope we won’t remember having seen before). In this case, take the premise of the 7th season “Journey’s End,” in which Picard is tasked with moving a colony of Native Americans…

A Facebook friend pointed to the violence over the weekend in Chicago with a wry comments about the “peacefulness,” to which I commented: Can you imagine how these people are going to seriously lose their dookies on November 4th when Trump wins a second term? I thought it was a pretty self-evident idea: That the…

One for sale on Etsy… …and the rest from my sketchbook:

Asoka (aka Ashoka the Great) (2001) – Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood’s answer to Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Will Smith all rolled into one, stars in a fictionalized historical epic as the title character, the Indian emperor who was instrumental in promoting Buddhism in the 3rd century B.C.  However, people who have become non-violent Buddhists…

Two posted for sale in my Etsy shop (Ernie sold immediately): …and the rest from my sketchbook:

Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit (1968) – In medieval Japan, a usurping noble sets himself up for supernatural vengeance by (a) killing his lord, after which the distraught widow and her cat walk into the nearby marsh and drown; and (b) demanding that a young engaged woman “serve” him at the castle; when her fiance tries…

Star Trek: First Contact (1996) – aka The Next Generation Movie That People Actually Like.  In contrast to Generations, which was essentially a standard two-parter story with enough of a budget to hire William Shatner, this story took the demonstrably most dangerous foe from the series, the Borg, and then amped it up beyond what…

All from my sketchbook last week, but I’ll have some for sale this week, honest!