Musings of an Inkd Geek

The second Ultra female to be released from Tamashii Nations' S.H. Figuarts line is Ultrawoman Grigio, the little sister of Rosso & Blu. She had been teased... I want to say over a year ago? But then months went by and no release announcement, until earlier this year. She finally dropped this month, so here she is, in all her happy glory. Being that she is a kid sister, she is a bit shorter than other Ultra figures. I really like her color scheme of silver and orange, the latter hue being one that we don't see too often in Ultras. Her paint and sculpt are fantastic, and she comes with 8 pairs of hands, including fists, pointing, "happy" hands which resemble a peace/hang loose sign, a wide variety of open and flat palms, etc. She also comes with alternate color timer, her Grigio shot beam, which is a translucent orange that gets darker towards the end, and an alternate hand for Ultraman Zero, so that he and she could high five each other. Tamashii Nations did her r...

The first flick I watched was 1975’s giallo/horror Autopsy, aka The Victim (Italian title is Sunspots). It begins by showing a series of suicides throughout the city, interspersed with clips of the sun emitting strong bursts and flairs. Then we cut to the main plot, showing a woman named Simona who works at a morgue and is doing her thesis on authentic suicides vs. simulated ones. It seems that Rome is experiencing a heatwave that seems to be the explanation for the sudden increase in suicides. Simona is shown to be cold and neurotic, rejecting the advances of her boyfriend, and having hallucinations where she imagines the corpses reanimating and attacking her. One night she meets a redhead who it turns out has a relationship with Simona’s father. The next day the redhead is found dead on the beach, the victim of an apparent suicide by self inflicted gunshot. Her brother, a priest named Paul Lennox, is convinced that his sister did not kill herself, and begins to stalk and harass Simon...