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A Long Ride From Hell (1968) – It was filmed in Italy (by an Italian director with a largely Italian cast) in the late ’60s, so it’s very much a technical spaghetti Western, but everything from the star to the costumes to the script (based on an American novel) seems like a throwback to pre-Fistful…

Atragon (1963) – It’s like a kaiju movie without the kaiju (mostly), as befits a movie directed by Ishiro Honda and scored by Akira Ifukube.  Agents from the Mu Empire, the Pacific version of Atlantis that sank beneath the waves 10,000 years ago (and whose inhabitants are genetically indistinguishable from modern Japanese), are preparing for…

Once again, there were a couple of sketches straight from my sketchbook… …but the majority 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.

I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death (1969) – This is the fourth or fifth spaghetti western by release date (from four different production companies) to use the character of “Sartana,” the elegant black-clad bounty hunter who’s just as smooth with cards as with a gun; it’s also the second to feature Gianni Garko in…

So again, there were a couple of sketches straight from my sketchbook… …but the majority of what I posted were for sale to raise money for my daughter’s Broadway trip. The sketches that didn’t sell when I posted them on Facebook are available for $20 each at my Etsy store.

As part of the requirement to keep the license for my day job, I’m required to attend a set number of Continuing Education classes/events, with the further requirement-within-a-requirement that three hours of such classes concern professional ethics. I find the requirement to be especially ludicrous — it’s not like a crooked professional will attend these…

Equinox (1970) – It started out as a student film, which was then expanded to feature length.  The acting and script aren’t great. But when you realize that the original directors included Dennis Muren (FX genius involved in a bunch of Star Wars movies, Battlestar: Galactica, Jurassic Park and others), you realize that what makes…

Again, I posted a couple of sketches straight from my sketchbook: …but the majority of what I posted were for sale to raise money for my daughter’s Broadway trip. The sketches that didn’t sell when I posted them on Facebook are available for $20 each at my Etsy store.

Zebraman (2004) – Odd Japanese comedy about a third-grade teacher with a lousy home life and an obsession with “Zebraman,” a short-lived tokusatsu TV series (think “Kamen Rider”) from the ’70s.  But it’s more than the story of a middle-aged closet cosplayer, as amusing as that would be; he discovers, when he runs across an…

I feel the need to preserve here a conversation on economics which took place on Facebook.  My friend Jared Nathan Garrett posted a screenshotted snippet from economics savant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: And Jared’s comment was simply, That’s not capitalism. While most of Jared’s friends agreed, one commenter named Erin came to AOC’s defense: ERIN: No, she’s…