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Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) – I have been completely impressed with the Mission: Impossible movies that they’ve made after the caesura between 2006 and 2011. Instead of trying to shake up the formula or let individual directors use the franchise as a vehicle for his “vision,” they’ve taken the formula — i.e., “what people…

Last night was my daughter’s high school graduation. I’m sure other people write heartfelt retrospectives on the passage of time (to the tune of “Sunrise, Sunset”). Me, I do what I do whenever I have a long list of local names: list the “unique” Utah names! Alexsis Austyn Braxton (x2) Brayan Brenlee Bridger (x3) Brigg…

FanX in April was the outlier.  Starting next month, convention season begins in earnest, so here’s where you’ll be able to find me over the next few months: [ninja_tables id=”3905″]

Torture Garden (1967) – Another Amicus horror anthology, from a screenplay by Robert Bloch.  Not unlike director Freddie Francis’s later anthology Tales From the Crypt, the framing story on this one is sorta kinda cautionary tales for the participants, all of whom are shown a possible future by carnival spookhouse proprietor Dr. Diablo (Burgess Meredith). …

I hit the end of the sketches I had specifically done to sell, and I’ll honest: sales had slowed down (I think everyone in my social media circles who wanted one had gotten one), so I decided not to do anymore.  So here’s the final batch I posted: …all of which are for sale on…

Das Boot (1981) – Doing a bit of background research for the prologue chapter of my novelization of Nazi Sharks (oh, didn’t you know that’s a thing?), so I grabbed this highly regarded wartime drama of life inside a WWII U-boat from the library. Didn’t realize that it was originally a made-for-German-TV miniseries, so when…

One sketch from my sketchbook… …and the rest of what I posted were for sale to raise money for my daughter Sariah’s Broadway trip. The sketches that didn’t sell immediately when I posted them on Facebook are available for $20 each at my Etsy store.

One sketch direct from my sketchbook… …and the rest of what I posted were for sale to raise money for my daughter Sariah’s Broadway trip. The sketches that didn’t sell immediately when I posted them on Facebook are available for $20 each at my Etsy store.

Star Trek Beyond (2016) – I sort of enjoyed the first reboot Star Trek movie, as long as I remembered that the character which was labeled “James Kirk” was entirely unrelated to the Jim Kirk I had grown up with.  And I never bothered to see Into Darkness — I had no desire to support…