As has been the tradition lo these many years, the Friday before Halloween my kids and I settle in as I just start playing one movie after another until the last of us gives up. Here’s this year’s recap. A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) – As is also part of the tradition, the first movie…

[The WordPress widget that posts updates from Goodreads in the sidebar stopped working a while ago, and I can’t find a replacement. So I guess I’ll just have to cross-post my reviews.] The last (first) time I read this was at least thirty years ago. I would love to say that the fact that it’s…

Debug (2014) – Another vaguely Alien-like sci-fi flick. This one has a team of youngish hacker convicts whose sentence is to jump around space fixing space ships; their last one this tour is a big derelict which used to be a prison transport ship; unfortunately, the A.I. running the ship is just happy to have…

Six for sale in my Etsy shop… …and one directly from my sketchbook:

Star Quest (1995) – I can only assume that the logline was “Alien (1979) without the alien.”  A deep space crew on the way to a colony world is awakened from cryosleep to find mysterious messages left for them in the computer, as well as a murderer among them.  Also, there may be an android….

Three for sale in my Etsy shop… …and four directly from my sketchbook:

The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962) – Exactly what it says on the tin. Zatoichi, the blind wandering masseur/swordsman, is called upon to give a massage to a lord who’s apparently loony with early-onset dementia; then, so that Zatoichi won’t spill the beans about their master’s condition, the retainers pay to have him killed.  Plus…