Kong: Skull Island (2017) – Another mechanically competent blockbusterish movie-flavored factory product, with maybe some humans involved. I have a list of complaints — the soldier stranded on the island for decades was too well-fed, we spend way too much screentime with an isolated soldier who ends up dying off-screen, there’s no way that pterodactyls…

When last we spoke about my assemblage art, I passed on the sad news that the Pandemonium Art Gallery in Ogden would be closing.  The new news is that, at the very end, the Pandemonium got new owners, who closed for the month of July to revamp it.  Tonight is the official reopening (it’s the…

Horror Hotel (1960) – A mostly not-silly movie saddled with a silly title (its alternate title, City of the Dead, is more respectable if no more accurate), its main problem is what I call “The Psycho Flaw,” i.e., establishing a protagonist and then killing that protagonist an unconscionably long time into the movie (oops, spoilers!)….

My first poster that clearly takes its inspiration from an existing franchise (I think that, with more than forty years since the last Blind Dead movie, it’s ripe for a reboot).

Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011) – Given that Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) relied entirely on the novelty of (a) the title and (b) the stunt casting of Debbie Gibson (a flavor of stunt that was mimicked in the next year’s Mega Piranha starring Tiffany), Mega Python vs. Gatoroid follows the same formula-slash-shtick: Low-rent…

Somewhere, there’s an alternate universe in which this movie was made.