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So hey! If you’re planning to attend the FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (aka The Artist Formerly Known As Salt Lake Comic Con) this Thursday through Saturday, you can catch me in all of my caffeinated glory. I’m on the following panels: Aliens & UFOs 101: The Truth is Out There :: 250A Daniel Bishop,…

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) – And how, you may ask, does Larry Talbot, the ill-fated Wolf Man, return for his first sequel after dying at the end of the original? Simple: He can’t die! No, really — even after a silver bullet dispatched him, all it takes is for the full moon to…

Graveyard Shift (1990) – There are so many unimpressive movie adaptations of Stephen King short stories that they can form a grading continuum.  This one isn’t as bad as The Mangler (1995), but not as good as Children of the Corn (1984).  The problem here is that the adapters obviously had to add things to…

Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977) – Burt Lancaster plays a former general, now a prison escapee, who takes over a nuclear missile silo in order to force the President (Charles Durning) to reveal dirty information from the beginning of the Vietnam War. It’s a tense (though overlong) bit of realpolitik; the current President has to deal with…