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Movies Seen Recently: The Adventurers, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Quest For the Mighty Sword
The Adventurers (2017) – A Chinese jewel thief (Andy Lau) gets out of a French prison intent on pulling the requisite One Last JobTM, despite the cop who put him there (Jean Reno) keeping close tabs on him. Also, Shu Qi is one of the team the thief puts together, and everyone just stops and…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
One available in my Etsy store… …and six from my sketchbook:
Project 2025 — I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
Once I realized that “Project 2025” was going to be the Democrats’ latest boogeyman, a vague title to which they can ascribe any number of fever-dream warnings about a second Trump presidency because no one has read the damned thing, I decided to read the damned thing. Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. The whole…
Movies Seen Recently: Iron Warrior, Batman: Caped Crusader, Jolt
Iron Warrior (1987) – This is the third movie of the loose “Ator” franchise, i.e., the third movie in which Miles O’Keeffe plays a barbarian warrior named “Ator,” even though there’s now even less connection to the earlier movies than there was between first first and second. (A few dozen more of these, and Ator…
Movies Seen Recently: Hawk the Slayer, My Mother the Spy, Back in Time
Hawk the Slayer (1980) – I last saw this when I was eighteen. Unlike me, it has not improved with age. Generic good-guy prince Hawk (John Terry) inherits a magic sword from his father to fight his bad-guy older brother Voltan (Jack Palance (!), a full thirty years older than Terry). The big bad-guy affront…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
That’s right, I finally filled another sketchbook, so the Sketch of the Day has recommenced!