I’ve caught up to my sketchbooks again, so apart from the occasional sketch that’s destined for my Etsy shop, these will be the last sketches of the day until my current sketchbook is full.

Blastfighter (1984) – Lamberto Bava gives us an action-adventure which is mostly First Blood (1982) with a little bit of Mad Max (1979) mixed in (not The Road Warrior (1981), mind — that’s an entirely different ripoff lineage).  Flash-in-the-pan action star Michael Sopkiw is a former cop who spent time in prison for killing a…

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: