Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit (1968) – In medieval Japan, a usurping noble sets himself up for supernatural vengeance by (a) killing his lord, after which the distraught widow and her cat walk into the nearby marsh and drown; and (b) demanding that a young engaged woman “serve” him at the castle; when her fiance tries…

Star Trek: First Contact (1996) – aka The Next Generation Movie That People Actually Like.  In contrast to Generations, which was essentially a standard two-parter story with enough of a budget to hire William Shatner, this story took the demonstrably most dangerous foe from the series, the Borg, and then amped it up beyond what…

All from my sketchbook last week, but I’ll have some for sale this week, honest!

War (2019) – Bollywood does Mission: Impossible!  A young covert operative is tasked to track down his trainer (Hrithik Roshan, beloved around my house for Koi Mil Gaya) as the latter goes rogue and starts killing high-level government functionaries with no pattern… or is there? Roshan looks like the toughest damned 45-year-old in the world…

Of interest to pretty much no one but me, my music listening tally/journal What I Just Listened To (originally on Tumblr, then on Pinterest) is now a subdomain here: justlistenedto.nathanshumate.com The most recently three albums listened to also show up in the sidebar here.

Star Trek: Generations (1994) – Some parts of this movie were filmed concurrent with the series finale, “All Good Things…”  When the finale wrapped, the cast had a ten-day break before they were back to work on the feature.  I’m sure that contributed to it feeling like an extra two-parter from the seventh season. And…