Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
That’s right, I finally filled another sketchbook, so the Sketch of the Day has recommenced!
Movies Seen Recently: The Raid: Redemption, The Invincible Barbarian, The Blade Master
The Raid: Redemption (2011) – My son introduced this movie to me with, “It’s Dredd without Judge Dredd but with John Wick-levels of action.” Sold! The story is little more than a premise: An Indonesian S.W.A.T. team (with rookie member Rama (Iko Kawais) as the protagonist) stages a raid on a thirty-floor brutalist apartment building…
Movies Seen Recently: Deathstalker 2, Conan the Destroyer, Excalibur
Deathstalker 2: Duel of the Titans (1987) – We visit again the sword-&-sorcery subgenre called “Completely Unrelated to the Boris Vallejo Poster Art.” The only commonalities between this movie and the first Deathstalker are (1) the protagonist’s name — “Deathstalker” — and (2) the setting, “generic ancient pseudo-European fantasy world.” This time out, instead of…
Movies Seen Recently: Pulse, Conquest, The Archer
Pulse (2001) – Two completely separate storylines here that don’t intersect until the last ten minutes, and neither of them make any sense. There’s something about maybe people disappearing because of an internet site (but then it just turns out that people are disappearing willy-nilly), and maybe souls of the are stuck in a pseudo-electronic…
Movies Seen Recently: Forsaken, The Grandmaster, Shango
Forsaken (2015) – Donald and Kiefer Sutherland star as a grumpy old widower preacher and his black sheep son who left to fight in the Civil War and then kept outlawing for years after, now returned home to make amends, respectively. One could make the case (that’s my way of saying that I’m going to…
Available as of today!
As of today, The Shadow Over Vinland and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos is available in both print and ebook. Samples are posted weekly at Cold Fusion Media. Avail yourself as you see fit!
For those who like to sample their Cthulhu Mythos fiction first…
…there are 1,000-word teasers for the first six stories in The Shadow Over Vinland and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos up at the Cold Fusion Media website: “The Octopus Man” “The Crossroads Motor Inn” “The Shadow Over Vinland” “Piecework” “Vale of the Serpent” “Doctored” Release date on Amazon is this Saturday, June 15th, but…
Movies Seen Recently: Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Maiden Heist, The Beast With a Million Eyes
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) – Scientists land on an island to discover what happened to the previous group of scientists that went there to study the effects of radiation from nearby bomb test. The answer: GIANT CRABS happened to them! This script exhibits what I call the “One Step Too Far” error. Giant…