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…
Movies Seen Recently: Avenging Angel, Son of Kong, Vanishing on 7th Street
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…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
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.
Movies Seen Recently: Patchwork, Black Fox: Age of the Ninja, Any Gun Can Play
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…
Movies Seen Recently: Darr, The Hunt, Scarlett
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…
Movies Seen Recently: The Alligator People, Miss Go, The Magnetic Monster
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…
Movies Seen Recently: Breach, Recon, Alien Expedition
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…
New posters, gearing up for FanX!
According to what I see here, I haven’t posted any new bogus B-movie posters since 2019. Because then THE WORLD FRICKIN’ STOPPED. But I’ve been getting a crap-ton ready for FanX in SLC in September, so here are the new ones: (For the benefit of search engines, that’s Corn Maze Cannibals, Land Piranhas, Cthulhu &…
O Beautiful.
[I originally posted this on last year’s Independence Day. As I’ve been traveling and unable to compose anything new, I thought it would do nicely.] This morning, on my Facebook and Instagram accounts, as well as at LousyBookCovers.com and CheapCaffeine.net, I posted this image and caption: Happy birthday to the greatest nation in history. The…