Tropic Thunder (2008) – Beyond all the normal paeans to the brilliance of this cutting satire of actors and movie-making (and, I suppose, all the de rigueur handwringing over Robert Downey Jr’s role in “blackface”), I want to point out two points of extra brilliance that you may have missed: The “director” character, Damien Cockburn…
Living the Nightmare (Updated May 6).
Original January 25, 2021 Post: Below is a lightly revised post I made to Facebook back on December 17th. I decided to bring it over here to have it within easy reach, and also so I could number each of the entries. After I first posted the picture above, a commenter of another political stripe…
Movies Seen Recently: Transporter 2, The Game, Dune Drifter
Transporter 2 (2005) – I actually like this one better than the original. The mainspring to the plot of first Transporter movie was Frank (Jason Statham) stepping outside his strict self-imposed rules for no good reason, and it got sillier and schmaltzier from there. Here, the plot springs from Frank keeping his rules: As a…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post
I was traveling several days this week, so…
Sketch of the day Omnibus Post.
One for sale in my Etsy shop… …and the rest directly from my sketchbook:
Slings and arrows.
[Cross-posted from MeWe.] Now, this is just a notion that came to me this morning; I haven’t decided how much I believe it. But it’s certainly a plausible speculation. While reading several novels recently set in pre-modern conflicts — especially Chuck Dixon’s Bad Times series, in which modern ex-Rangers end up in historical war zones…
Movies Seen Recently: 11/11/11, Blind Fury, Shockwave
11/11/11 (2011) – It’s actually a fairly competent paranoid Satanist thriller from The Asylum — at the very least, it’s better than the OTHER two Omen ripoffs I’ve seen from them. Doesn’t look impoverished, either. But pretty forgettable for all that. Which is why this description is so short. Blind Fury (1989) – I really,…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
My sketch-of-the-day posting has been a little spotty; late last week my modem died, and I’ve been trying to be frugal in the use of my hotspot for desktop internet access. (Apparently DSL modems are ancient technology. Who knew?) Three posted for sale in my Etsy shop… …and two from my sketchbook: