“Conan the Barbarian” Alt Poster by Yvan Quinet!
Yvan Quinet created this alt poster for Conan the Barbarian. Crom!
You can see more of Yvan Quinet’s art at his website and/or his Instagram page.
Source: AMP Posters.
“The Naked Gun” (2025) starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson / Z-View
The Naked Gun (2025)
Director: Akiva Schaffer
Screenplay: Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, Akiva Schaffer; based on Police Squad! by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker
Stars: Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Eddie Yu, Moses Jones, Busta Rhymes, Carl Gilliard, Elliott Grey, Wilbur Fitzgerald and Cody Rhodes & Dave “Batista” Bautista.
Tagline: Look out crime he’s fully armed.
The Plot…
“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for a funny movie, I can tell you The Naked Gun (2025) might fit the bill. Frank Drebin has passed on. But Frank Drebin, Jr. has taken his place and what Frank Jr. does have are a very particular set of skills, skills he acquired over a very long career. Skills that make him a nightmare for audiences like you. If you watch his movie now, that’ll be the end of it. But if you don’t,at some point you will. And it won’t will kill you.”
Naked Gun (2025) might have easily been called Sons of the Police Squad. Each of the lead characters from The Naked Gun movies have passed on and their sons have taken their spots.
Book ’em.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
If you enjoyed Police Squad! and The Naked Gun movies, you should enjoy this outing.
Naked Gun (2025) rates 3 of 5 stars.
“Trouble in Mind” (1985) written & directed by Alan Rudolph; starring Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer and Geneviève Bujold / Z-View
Trouble in Mind (1985)
Director: Alan Rudolph
Screenplay: Alan Rudolph
Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Geneviève Bujold, Joe Morton, Divine, George Kirby, John Considine, Dirk Blocker, Gailard Sartain, Allan F. Nicholls and Albert Hall.
Tagline: None.
The Plot…
As Walter Hill said about Streets of Fire… it takes place in another time and another place. Trouble in Mind is set in Rain City.
John Hawkins, Hawk to his friends, has just been released from prison. Hawk did a stretch for murder. He was a cop who killed a gangster. It cost Hawk his job and eight years of his life. But he’d do it again to protect the ones he loves. These days he hangs out at Wanda’s Cafe as he decides what’s next.
Coop and Georgia are a young couple with a baby named Spike. They hoped Rain City would provide them a fresh start. Money is tight despite Georgia getting a job as a waitress at Wanda’s Cafe. So Coop starts taking jobs for a crook named Solo. As the money starts coming in Coop begins to believe he’s cut out to be a gangster.
Hawk is attracted to Georgia. He knows where the path Coop is taking leads. He wants to save Georgia from the heartache. Georgia is torn. She loved the man her husband used to be. She’s got to do what’s best for her and her child.
Coop and Solo’s crimes have put them at odds with another gangster. Hawk and Coop are also headed for a showdown.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Roger Ebert wrote Trouble in Mind “is a movie that takes place within our memories of the movies.” After seeing the film, you’ll understand what he meant. It has all the tropes you’d expect in a neo-noir but with flourishes that work in “another time, another place” or dream settings.
Trouble in Mind (1985) rates 3 of 5 stars.
“Troll 2” – The Poster and Trailer are Here!
Here we have the poster and trailer for Troll 2.
Despite it being on the surface a silly concept, Troll was a fun movie. So ignore the somewhat goofy looking poster for Troll 2 and check out the trailer. Then get in the mood for a fun drive-in movie when Troll 2 premieres on December 1st.
A new troll has awakened!
Join Nora, Andreas, and Captain Kris as they embark on their most dangerous adventure yet. With the clock ticking and chaos spreading, they’ll need new allies and ancient secrets to stop the rampage. Can they save Norway before it’s too late?
Watch Troll 2, Dec 1 on Netflix.
Hartigan and the Yellow Bastard by Howie Noel!
Frank Miller’s Sin City is one of my all-time favorite comic series. I love seeing artists do their “take” on Miller’s characters. Today we have Hartigan and the Yellow Bastard by Howie Noel.
“Duster” (2025) created by J.J. Abrams & LaToya Morgan; starring Josh Holloway, Rachel Hilson and Keith David / Z-View
“Duster” (2025)
Created by: J. J. Abrams, LaToya Morgan
Teleplay by:
- (eps. 1; 3) J. J. Abrams & LaToya Morgan
- (ep. 2) LaToya Morgan & J. J. Abrams
- (ep. 4) Sue Chung
- (ep. 5) Lucas Brown Eyes
- (ep. 6) Matt Lambert
- (ep. 7) Michael Horowitz
- (ep. 8) LaToya Morgan
Directed by:
- Steph Green (eps. 1-2; 5-6)
- Darren Grant (eps. 3-4; 7-8)
Stars: Josh Holloway, Rachel Hilson, Asivak Koostachin, Sydney Elisabeth Smith, Benjamin Charles Watson, Camille Guaty, Adriana Aluna Martinez, Greg Grunberg, Evan Jones, Sofia Vassilieva, Jonathan Dixon, Corbin Bernsen, Kevin Chamberlin, Matt Lauria, Gail O’Grady and Keith David.
Tagline: Everyone needs an inside man.
The Plot…
The year is 1972. Nina Hayes, the F.B.I.’s first Black female agent is assigned to the Phoenix, Arizona office. There she is expected to keep a low profile and not rock the boat as she works on the Ezra Saxton case. Saxton is a Black crime kingpin for the area. Nina thinks she may have an “in” by turning Jim Ellis, Saxton’s getaway driver.
Jim is a trusted family friend of Saxon’s. In fact Jim’s older brother worked for Saxon as well. Saxon loved his brother like a son. When Jim’s brother was murdered, Jim took his spot in the organization. There’s no way Jim would betray Saxton.
When Nina shares evidence with Jim that Saxton may have been behind his brother’s murder, all bets are off.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Duster is a fun ride. Josh Holloway is perfect as Jim Ellis. I’m surprised we don’t see Holloway more often in big productions. Duster was a great, uh, vehicle for his talents.
I’d never seen Rachel Hilson before. She’s wonderful as the young, outsider set to solve a case. Hilson and Holloway had great on-screen chemistry.
Keith David is always good. He’s perfectly cast as Saxon.
Duster features one of the coolest openings before each episode. Watch for slight changes as the season progresses. Very clever. Very fun.
It’s unfortuante that Duster wasn’t renewed for Season 2. It currently has a 7.2 rating on IMDb. At Rotten Tomatoes it currently sits with 93% from reviewers and 85% from users of the site. So people did enjoy Duster. Sadly, not enough tuned in when it premiered for the greenlight for a second season.
If you haven’t seen Duster, you should give it a try.
“Duster” (2025) earns 4 of 5 stars.
“An American Werewolf in Edinburgh” by Gene Gonzales!
“An American Werewolf in Edinburgh” by Gene Gonzales. I was totally blown away by this piece. Here’s what Gene had to say about it…
We’ve been to Edinburgh, Scotland numerous times. Our home away from home, really. I think it would be a great setting for a werewolf story. Maybe a remake of the classic film “American Werewolf in London”?
I’d love to see Gene draw a werewolf story in this style!
“Alien: Earth” Season 1 (2025) created by Noah Hawley / Z-View
“Alien: Earth” Season 1 (2025)
Created by: Noah Hawley; Based on Alien by Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Teleplay by:
- (eps. 1-2; 5) Noah Hawley
- (ep. 3) Noah Hawley and Bob DeLaurentis
- (ep. 4) Noah Hawley and Bobak Esfarjani
- (ep. 6) Noah Hawley and Lisa Long
- (ep. 7) Noah Hawley and Maria Melnik
- (ep. 8) Noah Hawley & Migizi Pensoneau
Directed by:
- Noah Hawley (eps. 1; 5)
- Dana Gonzales (eps. 2-3; 7-8)
- Ugla Hauksdóttir (eps. 4; 6)
Stars: Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Jonathan Ajayi, David Rysdahl, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El, Adrian Edmondson and Timothy Olyphant.
Tagline: Fear takes new forms.
The Plot…
The year is 2120. Five companies control the planet and colonized outposts in the solar system. The USCSS Maginot, a spacecraft owned by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation is returning from a successful mission in space to retrieve alien life forms. When the ship crash lands into a city owned by the Prodigy Corportation, the race is on to secure the alien specimens.
Prodigy is owned by Boy Kavalier. The world’s youngest trillionaire and a genius to boot. Kavalier created the world’s first first human-synthetic hybrids by placing the minds of terminally ill children in adult synthetic bodies. These hybrids were mentored by a synth named Kirsh. Wendy, one of the hybrids, was given AI intelligence making her even smarter than Boy Kavalier.
The Weyland-Yutani Corporation sends notice that they want the “cargo” of their crashed ship. Boy Kavalier responds that any incursion into Prodigy territory will be seen as an act of war. Kavalier then sends Kirsh, Wendy and the four other hybrids on a mission to the crash site to retrieve the alien specimens.
At the same time a city rescue team arrives at the crash site. They are unaware what the craft was carrying or that a Xenomorph has escaped. Worse still, there are other creatures on the ship equally as dangerous. As tensions mount, lives are lost and it becomes clear that the shipwreck wasn’t accidental.
It could be “we were safer in space”.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Alien: Earth has a lot going on. There’s several different dangerous alien life forms, synthetic beings, human-syn hybrids, a boy genius with plans of his own, corporate intrigue, betryals and more. On one hand, I’m not sure eight episodes was enough to get into everything. I wanted more with the escaped alien specimens. Also, I wasn’t sold on the “relationship” between Wendy and the Xenomorph.
That’s not to say that I didn’t like Alien: Earth. I did. But not as much as I had hoped. Still, I hope we get a season two.
“Alien: Earth” Season 1 (2025) earns 3 of 5 stars.
“The Inspector General” (1949) starring Danny Kaye / Z-View
The Inspector General (1949)
Director: Henry Koster
Screenplay: Philip Rapp, Harry Kurnitz; Suggested by the play by Nikolai Gogol
Stars: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart, Walter Catlett, Rhys Williams, Leonard Bremen, Albert Cavens and Alan Hale.
Tagline: We Won’t Tell, Danny!!! But wait till that luscious little lovely finds out you’re not the Inspector General!!!
The Plot…
Georgi, an uneducated but kind-hearted fool, is kicked out of a band of gypsies for revealing that a miracle potion being sold is anything but. Georgi wanders into the small town of Brodny.
Brodny is governed by a corrupt Mayor who along with his council are making themselves rich at the expense of the town’s citizens. The Mayor has learned that an Inspector General has secretly been sent to each city by the King. The Inspector General’s job is to find corruption and make the guilty pay.
The Mayor believes that Georgi is the Inspector General. Which is all well and good until the REAL Inspector General arrives.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
The Inspector General is a fun movie. Be aware that the film is in the public domain so there are several versions available, some with cut scenes or songs.
The Inspector General (1949) rates 4 of 5 stars.
“The Lost Boys” by 𝐒𝖚𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖆 𝐕𝖎𝖑𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖟!
I like this art for The Lost Boys by 𝐒𝖚𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖆 𝐕𝖎𝖑𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖟 at least as much as I like the movie. What say you?
Sly Stallone as Jack Carter by Ryan Kelly!
I’d been a fan of Ryan Kelly’s art for some time. When I saw that he was taking mail order commissions, I jumped on board. I requested Sly Stallone as Jack Carter from Get Carter. Kelly killed it. This was my first commission from Ryan Kelly. I hope it’s not my last.
“Escape from New York” Alt Poster by Angora!
I’m always up for a new alt poster for Escape from New York. Angora came through like a champ.
“The Invisible Man” by Ryan Kelly!
The Invisible Man by Ryan Kelly!
When I was a kid I loved horror movies. I still do. But when it came to The Invisible Man, I just didn’t care for it. Re-visiting the film as a young adult (and now an older one) I’ve come to love the movie.
I can honestly say, I’ve loved Ryan Kelly’s riff on The Invisible Man from the first time I saw it. ; )
“Final Score” starring Dave Bautista, Ray Stevenson and Pierce Brosnan / Z-View
Final Score (2018)
Director: Scott Mann
Screenplay: David T. Lynch, Keith Lynch, Jonathan Frank
Stars: Dave Bautista, Ray Stevenson, Martyn Ford, Gordon Alexander, Peter Pedrero, Craig Conway, Bill Fellows and Pierce Brosnan.
Tagline: 35,000 lives. 90 minutes. No extra time.
The Plot…
Michael Knox, an ex-U.S. soldier visiting London, takes his teenage niece to a soccer game. When terrorists take control of the stadium, it is up to Knox to save the day.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
If you said that Final Score sounds like “Die Hard in a Stadium“, you wouldn’t be wrong. If you said that Final Score sounds like a knock-off of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Sudden Death you’d be right.
Final Score (2018) rates 2 of 5 stars.
