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I’ve often been puzzled that gun-control advocates so uniformly use the phrase “common sense” to describe their proposals, whereas that phrase practically never shows up in advocacy for other causes with which those advocates are usually bedfellows.  You don’t hear so much about common-sense environmental regulation or common-sense abortion legality or common-sense affirmative action.  (And…

Warning Sign (1985) – A small-town agro-research firm is actually a DoD biowarfare research unit, and when a nasty bug accidentally gets loose inside the facility, the lockdown traps the local sheriff’s wife inside with researchers exposed to a rage-releasing virus. Shot largely in Payson, Utah (I pegged the mountains in the background right off),…

The New Shaolin Boxers (1976) – A good alternate title would probably be No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.  A young kung fu fighter with an overdeveloped sense of justice keeps taking the side of the innocent in fights with hooligans and gangsters; he doesn’t lose any fights, but there’s enough resulting property damage each time…

Because there’s nothing like finally finishing a new assemblage (I’ve got half-assembled artifacts all over the house) after hours of work, and then taking some crummy cellphone photos at the last minute, right? Special bonus: I also experimented with painting on ceramic tiles (this one’s 5″ x 5″). Both will be at the Pandemonium Gallery…

Oasis of the Zombies (1982) – Depressingly shoddy project directed and co-written by workhorse Jesus Franco (directing as “A.M. Frank”). Franco helmed over 200 movies — and some of them were even good! — so what appears here can only be attributed to extreme apathy.  We’ve got: Age makeup so light that twenty or thirty…