After this last year, it had to happen sooner or later; I’ve caught up to my sketchbooks in my daily posting. Most of my doodles have been done at church — when all I’m doing is listening to someone, I have to keep my hands busy or I’ll fall asleep. But after six months with…
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Movies Seen Recently: Spasms, Three Outlaw Samurai, The Work and the Glory
Spasms (1983) – I haven’t read the potboiler novel Death Bite that this movie was based on, but I get see it clearly in what remains: Oliver Reed as the multimillionaire with the Captain Ahab complex toward a vicious giant snake that ate his brother, Peter Fonda as the parapsychologist hired to explore the psychic…
Movies Seen Recently: Holocaust 2000, True Grit, The Monster Squad
Holocaust 2000 (aka The Chosen) (1977) – Nothing makes The Omen (1976) look better than some of the other Antichrist-themed media of the time. Here, Kirk Douglas (sixty years old but looking pretty good, except for that cosmetic surgery scar along his jawline) is an industrialist working hard on a nuclear power plant project in…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
I was out camping for a couple of days, so only five sketches this week.
Movies Seen Recently: Tropic Thunder, Deathstalker, Tarantula
Tropic Thunder (2008) – Beyond all the normal paeans to the brilliance of this cutting satire of actors and movie-making (and, I suppose, all the de rigueur handwringing over Robert Downey Jr’s role in “blackface”), I want to point out two points of extra brilliance that you may have missed: The “director” character, Damien Cockburn…
Living the Nightmare (Updated May 6).
Original January 25, 2021 Post: Below is a lightly revised post I made to Facebook back on December 17th. I decided to bring it over here to have it within easy reach, and also so I could number each of the entries. After I first posted the picture above, a commenter of another political stripe…
Movies Seen Recently: Transporter 2, The Game, Dune Drifter
Transporter 2 (2005) – I actually like this one better than the original. The mainspring to the plot of first Transporter movie was Frank (Jason Statham) stepping outside his strict self-imposed rules for no good reason, and it got sillier and schmaltzier from there. Here, the plot springs from Frank keeping his rules: As a…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post
I was traveling several days this week, so…