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…
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Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
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…
Movies Seen Recently: Frankenstein, Monster Island, Beyond the Gates
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…
Movies Seen Recently: Best of the Best 3, Just Like Heaven, Massacre Time
Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995) – This movie is much better than the third installment in a kickboxing franchise has any right to be. The first two installments starred Eric Roberts, with Phillip Rhee as the sidekick, and were fairly standard “tournament by revenge” movies (from what I can tell —…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Only six sketches because I skipped posting on Christmas.
Movies Seen Recently: It! The Terror From Beyond Space, The Trollenberg Terror, Empire of the Ants
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) – It’s still goofy fun, just like it was when I first saw it, but man… it’s aging worse and worse. Astronaut women whose job it is to clear dishes and pour coffee! Smoking in the confined airspace you’re going to be living in for four months! Sitting…