Epoch (2001) – When a bizarre monolith that’s apparently been buried in the earth for four billions years decides to resurface in Bhutan and heal everyone in the surrounding vicinity, the US government (by invitation) sends a team to examine it, consisting of a bunch of army grunts, the requisite Pretty Lady Scientist, and a…

Hard Cash (2002) – Christian Slater is clever thief who spends a couple of years in the pen and gets out wondering what to do.  Val Kilmer is a dirty FBI agent who just happens to use the same betting office to launder his marked currency that Slater and his team hit in a polished…

One available in my Etsy store… …and the rest direct from my sketchbook:

Why? Why are the stupid little ideological battlegrounds of the cultural wars important to anyone?  Why does it matter if someone says that a born-with-a-penis man can trump biology simply by saying he’s a woman, and the only acceptable response is to acknowledge that poor person’s “reality” and behave as if the demonstrably false were…

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014) – whenever I watch documentaries about the troubled origins of some famously cursed production, I am amazed anew that studio movies are EVER produced — there are just so many egos and “sensibilities” pulling in mutually exclusive directions that having a watchable…

Homo Sapiens (2016) – It sounds like it shouldn’t work, but it does.  This documentary is entirely composed of long (20-30 seconds) static shots of abandoned human structures — theaters, hotels, railway lines, apartment buildings, schools — accompanied by nothing but ambient sound. There’s occasionally some movement from wind-blown papers, falling leaves, birds, dripping water,…