Count Dracula (1970) – In the middle of his two-decade run as Dracula for Hammer Films, Christopher Lee turned around and made a Dracula movie with Jess Franco. Way to fight the typecasting, Chris! You can tell it’s not a Hammer flick, though; Dracula has a mustache! (As any self-respecting 19th-century Eastern European nobleman would…
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Halloween Movie Marathon 2019
In my long tradition of doing this with my children, this year’s move marathon was the most ill-attended. Jason (lives elsewhere) and Emma (lives at home) didn’t show up for it at all; Jason was in a performance of Mamma Mia and then had to be up at 8am to take the ACT, and Emma…
Movies Seen Recently: Monster Island, The She-Creature, Belles on their Toes
Monster Island (2019) – No, I don’t learn. To cash in on Godzilla, King of the Monsters, The Asylum released this shoddy quickie, with bad acting, cheap SFX, a pointless plot, and Eric Roberts. Here’s really all you need to know: Roberts’ role is, as usual, a confined cameo (i.e., he’s in one location, communicating…
Movies Seen Recently: He Never Died, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, Some Like It Hot
He Never Died (2015) – This is one of those movies that’s impossible to discuss without giving something away… but I guess since the title isn’t actually going out of its way to keep a secret: The main character Jack (Henry Rollins) is a loner, a drifter, and as we start to figure out, effectively…
New poster: González!
It’s been a long time coming, but my latest bogus B-movie poster is finally available: González! Available right here, or on Etsy!
Sketch of the Day Mini-Omnibus Post.
Round about Monday evening, my desktop decided to stop booting up (it appears to be an OS problem, not a physical disk problem), and none of my tricks and workarounds worked, so I ordered myself a new computer. All of my previously scanned sketches were thus inaccessible for most of the week, so here are…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Two from my sketchbook: …plus the last five convention sketches sitting around here (don’t worry, I’ll be making more) that I’ve thrown up for sale on my Etsy page. Feel free to mosey over there to see what’s still available.
Movies Seen Recently: Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders and Drive-Ins, SheBorg, Dead Rising: Watchtower
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders and Drive-Ins (2014) – A mediocre-to-fair documentary about the development of the drive-in movie from the boost that sci-fi got in the ’50s and the contemporary social trends that show up in the movies. Mostly an excuse to show trailers (often from very low-resolution sources), although there are also a…