With the Big Tech purge, I decided to spread some support to the smaller social media outlets, so this week I stopped posting the sketch of the day to Facebook. It still goes to Instagram (nathan.shumate), and I’ve started posting it to MeWe (nathanshumate). For the foreseeable future, I’ll still cross-post anything from NathanShumate.com to…
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Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Plus, here’s my Top Nine from Instagram!
Movies Seen Recently: Stalking Chernobyl, Bill & Ted Face the Music, BraveStorm
Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse (2020) – More than just another documentary featuring footage in and around Chernobyl, Stalking Chernobyl explores the two main kinds of visitors that the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone receives: Legal tourists being brought through by licensed tour guides, and “stalkers” — illegal trespassers who backpack in and camp out in the…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Only six because I skipped Christmas. (Merry Christmas, by the way.)
Movies Seen Recently: Gamera vs. Viras, The Naughty Nineties, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Gamera vs. Viras (aka Destroy All Planets) (1968) – It’s easy call the later Showa-era Godzilla movies “juvenile,” but nothing holds a candle to these Gamera movies. These were definitely written to accommodate a pre-pubescent audience’s worldview, who would totally be behind the idea that 11-year-old Boy Scouts can outsmart not only scientists and other…
Movies Seen Recently: Weekend at Bernie’s, Ashfall, The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything
Weekend at Bernie’s (1989) – It’s good to see a comedy that holds up well. And not just for me; I watched it with my wife and teenage daughter, and all were laughing. Kudos to the unappreciated Terry Kiser, who managed to pull off being dead with surprising nuance. Ashfall (2019) – A good blockbustery…
Movies Seen Recently: Dark Intruder, Gamera 2, Ragnarok
Dark Intruder (1965) – When this TV pilot wasn’t picked up, the producers just extended it a little bit (probably just with footage from the cutting room floor, as nothing seems shot to add) and released it theatrically as a B-feature. Leslie Nielsen, before anyone knew he was funny, plays a role that seems like…