Listening (1994) – A very worthwhile SF drama. Two broke grad students work on computerized mind-reading technology in the garage with equipment “borrowed” from the university. One backburners his wife and daughter for Science; the other lives in a studio apartment with his sick grandmother and pilfers other things to get by. When a third…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
(Missed a day because I was out of town Friday to Saturday.)
Movies Seen Recently: Meri Pyaari Bindu, Deadtectives, Shaandaar
Meri Pyaari Bindu (2017) – A bestselling writer of pulp horror novels (I like him already!) has been trying for three years to write a romance, based on his own decades-long relationship with the girl next door. He finally moves home and rediscovers an old mixtape that he and she had made, and while listening…
Movies Seen Recently: Nightworld, Fist of Fury, When Taekwondo Strikes
Nightworld (2017) – I’m always a sucker for intriguing, mysterious premise: In this case, former police officer Brett is hired to watch the surveillance cameras somewhere behind the sealed door in the basement of an historic Bulgarian apartment building. What’s he supposed to look for? Anything. What’s he supposed to do? Call this number. Any…
A morning like any other…
My “commute” was a full ten minutes. Normally I just listened to the radio, but I’d left a book-on-tape playing last night, and just let it keep rolling through the commute. Finally, in the left turn lane into the parking lot, the audiobook hit a stopping spot and I turned it off, allowing the radio…
Movies Seen Recently: Devil in the Dark, The Ash Lad, The Golem
Devil in the Dark (2017) – Two estranged brothers on a camping trip encounter a giant silicon-based pan pizza… wait, that’s a DIFFERENT “Devil in the Dark.” In this, two estranged brothers go camping somewhere in the high Pacific northwest and… strange stuff happens. It’s a very well-acted and well-written production as far as dialogue…
No FanX for me this year.
With FanX (formerly Salt Lake Comic Con) coming up in a week and a half, this is normally the point at which I’d start regaling you with where my table will be in Artists Alley, what panels I’ll be on, what new art prints and originals I’ll have for sale… However, late last week FanX…