I found this left as a forgotten bookmark (not mine, I’ve never been to Cleveland) in a 1983 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: One NBC affiliate, two ABC, one CBS, three PBS, and four independent. Plus C-Span, USA, MTV, the Weather Channel, ESPN, CNN, and all the filler that nobody ever…

The Delta Force (1986) – Israeli director/co-producer/co-writer Menahem Golan has given us two movies in one here.  One is a hijacking drama, inspired loosely a real-life hijacking in 1985, in which Islamic terrorists grab a plane after takeoff in Athens.  Islamic terrorists are not known for their fondness of Jews, especially Israeli Jews, and so…

The Adventurers (2017) – A Chinese jewel thief (Andy Lau) gets out of a French prison intent on pulling the requisite One Last JobTM, despite the cop who put him there (Jean Reno) keeping close tabs on him. Also, Shu Qi is one of the team the thief puts together, and everyone just stops and…

One available in my Etsy store… …and six from my sketchbook:

Once I realized that “Project 2025” was going to be the Democrats’ latest boogeyman, a vague title to which they can ascribe any number of fever-dream warnings about a second Trump presidency because no one has read the damned thing, I decided to read the damned thing. Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. The whole…

Iron Warrior (1987) – This is the third movie of the loose “Ator” franchise, i.e., the third movie in which Miles O’Keeffe plays a barbarian warrior named “Ator,” even though there’s now even less connection to the earlier movies than there was between first first and second. (A few dozen more of these, and Ator…

Hawk the Slayer (1980) – I last saw this when I was eighteen. Unlike me, it has not improved with age. Generic good-guy prince Hawk (John Terry) inherits a magic sword from his father to fight his bad-guy older brother Voltan (Jack Palance (!), a full thirty years older than Terry).  The big bad-guy affront…