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…
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Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Two posted for sale in my Etsy shop (Ernie sold immediately): …and the rest from my sketchbook:
Movies Seen Recently: Bakeneko, In the Mouth of Madness, Mothra
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…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Three for sale on my Etsy page… …plus four from my sketchbook:
Movies Seen Recently: Star Trek: First Contact, The Gambler, The Wasp Woman
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…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
All from my sketchbook last week, but I’ll have some for sale this week, honest!
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
No sketches for sale this week; I do most of those sketches while watching movies, and one of the lingering effects of my cold-turkeying caffeine is that my eyes didn’t like changing focus from the TV to the drawing in my lap. And only six sketches from my sketchbook, because I inexplicably forgot to post…
Movies Seen Recently: War, Seven Warriors, Devil Girl From Mars
War (2019) – Bollywood does Mission: Impossible! A young covert operative is tasked to track down his trainer (Hrithik Roshan, beloved around my house for Koi Mil Gaya) as the latter goes rogue and starts killing high-level government functionaries with no pattern… or is there? Roshan looks like the toughest damned 45-year-old in the world…
What I Just Listened To.
Of interest to pretty much no one but me, my music listening tally/journal What I Just Listened To (originally on Tumblr, then on Pinterest) is now a subdomain here: justlistenedto.nathanshumate.com The most recently three albums listened to also show up in the sidebar here.
Movies Seen Recently: Star Trek: Generations, Heaven Can Wait, The World of Drunken Master
Star Trek: Generations (1994) – Some parts of this movie were filmed concurrent with the series finale, “All Good Things…” When the finale wrapped, the cast had a ten-day break before they were back to work on the feature. I’m sure that contributed to it feeling like an extra two-parter from the seventh season. And…