[cross-posted from GoodReads] On the one hand: This was written to be part of an “Ace Doubles” volume, and it shows the flaws common to most of those “filler” novels: arbitrary worldbuilding, characterization by convenience, an obligatory de minimis love interest, and an unquestioned faith in the viability and desirability of a coercively realized utopia…

The Midnight After (2014) – A rickety little shuttle bus running from one part of Hong Kong to another in the wee small hours with a cadre of idiosyncratic passengers runs into a bizarre problem: When they get where they’re going, they discover that everyone else has disappeared. The whole city, and possibly the world. …

Mr. Canton and Lady Rose, aka Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989) – Right after Jackie Chan’s first flush of for-real American stardom, he started making two movies a year — one American and very Americanized, and one in Hong Kong.  This is the Hong Kong feature for 1989, and Chan (director and star) plays it up…

(Missed a day while traveling.)

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018) – Surprisingly for a title like that, this is not a spoof. Sam Elliott plays a man who, in his youth, was part of a special program in WWII that, yup, killed Hitler (it didn’t help, there were doubles); now, as a lonely old man…