Antidote (aka Alone) (2013) – I really don’t understand people. This is a somber independent movie about two people alone in a world decimated by a global plague (remember, people used to make movies like that for entertainment), and it currently has a 3.5/10 rating on IMDb. User comments include such criticisms as “not enough…
On the Occasion of My Semi-Centennial.
Well, I turn 50 today. It’s the oddest thing. I had always assumed that older people felt older. Like the qualitative difference between prepubescent children and twenty-somethings, a gap that shows “these are not the same creature.” But no, the now-me is the same me inside as the twenty-something-me, not appreciably smarter (though more experienced)…
Movies Seen Recently: 3022, The Frankenstein Syndrome, The Warrant
3022 (2019) – Low-key but intriguing space station drama. Halfway through their ten-year posting to a refueling satellite halfway to Europa, just when they realize that their mental health may not be up to the rest of their term, the four-person crew is suddenly cut off from all Earth communication — and the long-range scanner…
Movies Seen Recently: Tammy and the Bachelor, Code of Silence, The Werewolf and the Yeti
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) – It’s not technically a musical — there’s only one musical number which comes out of nowhere and is integrated into the narrative — but it shares the same arbitrary and stylized storytelling aesthetic. 25-year-old Debbie Reynolds plays 17-year-old Tammy, raised on a houseboat in the Louisiana swamps by her…
Sketch of the week.
For sale in my Etsy store.
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
After this last year, it had to happen sooner or later; I’ve caught up to my sketchbooks in my daily posting. Most of my doodles have been done at church — when all I’m doing is listening to someone, I have to keep my hands busy or I’ll fall asleep. But after six months with…
Movies Seen Recently: Spasms, Three Outlaw Samurai, The Work and the Glory
Spasms (1983) – I haven’t read the potboiler novel Death Bite that this movie was based on, but I get see it clearly in what remains: Oliver Reed as the multimillionaire with the Captain Ahab complex toward a vicious giant snake that ate his brother, Peter Fonda as the parapsychologist hired to explore the psychic…
Movies Seen Recently: Holocaust 2000, True Grit, The Monster Squad
Holocaust 2000 (aka The Chosen) (1977) – Nothing makes The Omen (1976) look better than some of the other Antichrist-themed media of the time. Here, Kirk Douglas (sixty years old but looking pretty good, except for that cosmetic surgery scar along his jawline) is an industrialist working hard on a nuclear power plant project in…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
I was out camping for a couple of days, so only five sketches this week.