Venomous (2001) – Pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a “dangerous animals” flick directed by Fred Olen Ray (here using the name “Ed Raymond”): Treat Williams stars (and a bunch of people that you’ve probably seen before but never learned their names co-star — shout-out to Marc McClure!); shooting locations for “super-secret government lab”…

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) – 2014’s Godzilla worked, in my humble opinion, largely because the Big G wasn’t a character or personality so much as a force of nature, and people just did things around his feet to save themselves. Some of that was lost in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), as Godzilla was…

Avenging Angel (2007) – Unambitious western fare: Kevin Sorbo is a preacher who, on his first Sunday in town, protects some “squatters” who are being ill-treated by land baron Wings Hauser, and has his church exploded and his wife and child killed for his trouble. A year later, after working as a bounty hunter trying…

I filled another sketchbook, which means that the scanned Sketch of the Day is back! (Posted to MeWe and Instagram.) Here’s the omnibus post of the sketches from the last week.

Patchwork (2015) – Three twentysomething women wake up after their Friday night to discover that they’ve been Frankensteined into one body, with three minds (career girl, sorority sister, wallflower) butting up against each other. Wackiness ensues. This is a bloody, irreverent black comedy, sort of like if old-school Peter Jackson had been inspired by a…

Darr (1993) – One can scarcely overstate the popularity of charismatic Bollywood leading man Shah Rukh Khan; as my Bollywood-centric friend Chris explained to me once, “Imagine if Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise were the same person.” Darr was apparently his breakout role. The premise seems ripe for comedy: Juhi Chawla is engaged to the…

The Alligator People (1959) – A classic B-movie that hits all the bases.  You’ve got a framing story that allows Men of Science to tell you what it all means; a plucky heroine, searching for her husband who disappeared on their wedding night; a mysterious family manor hidden deep in the bayou; a scientist who’s…

Breach (2020) – This is not, as some IMDb commenters have said, the worst SF movie EVAR.  It is, however, far stupider than something with enough budget to hire Bruce Willis should be. First sign of stupidity: A huge ship is ready to blast off to take the last load of colonists from a doomed…