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Homo Sapiens (2016) – It sounds like it shouldn’t work, but it does.  This documentary is entirely composed of long (20-30 seconds) static shots of abandoned human structures — theaters, hotels, railway lines, apartment buildings, schools — accompanied by nothing but ambient sound. There’s occasionally some movement from wind-blown papers, falling leaves, birds, dripping water,…

Unknown (2006) – I love me a good amnesia opening, you know? In this case, five guys wake up in a locked-down warehouse without remembering who they are.  Some are tied up; some are injured; some are armed.  Who’s captive to whom, who’s a good guy and who’s a bad guy, and when whoever locked…

A couple sketches for sale in my Etsy store: …and the rest directly from my sketchbook:

The Bone Snatcher (2003) – I wanted to like this movie, and to a great degree I succeeded. You gotta cut some slack to low-budget sci-fi-horror flicks being made off the beaten path (in this case, a Canadian/South African co-production shot in Namibia).  Granted, it’s almost all Anglo characters, including the fish-out-of-water Dr. Zack (Scott…

One from the sketchbook this time… ..and then I decided to do some more sketches for sale (I don’t have another convention scheduled until June, so if I wait to do some more until I’m at a con…).  All of these are for sale in my Etsy store, except the last one — that was…

Frankenstein (2004) – The genesis of this TV-movie is more interesting than the movie itself.  A number of people, including Dean Koontz and Martin Scorsese, were involved in developing this is as pilot for a potential series.  Due to that bugaboo “creative differences,” Koontz pulled out (so did Scorsese, but he came back).  Eventually, the…