by mike | Aug 19, 2024 | Action/Adventure, Disaster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Don’t get me wrong. I enjoyed the 2024 disaster movie, Twisters, with its numerous tornadoes dealing death and destruction all over Oklahoma. But its 1996 predecessor, Twister, holds a lofty place on my list of all-time favorite movies. Much of that has to do with its...
by mike | Mar 25, 2024 | Action/Adventure, Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The late, great Ray Harryhausen was an animator and special effects creator, well known for his development of stop motion model animation (known as Dynamation). The largest body of his work was done during the 1950s-1970s. He retired after his efforts on the 1981...
by mike | Mar 14, 2024 | Action/Adventure, Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Geostorm was a bona-fide Guilty Pleasure! I first presented this post in 2020. The much-maligned 2017 film, Geostorm, is a disaster movie. And a sci-fi movie. And a political thriller. Guess what: I enjoy disaster movies; and sci-fi movies; and political thrillers. So...
by mike | Dec 11, 2023 | Action/Adventure, Aging, Movies, Uncategorized |
Although the final film in one of the most enduring and endearing movie franchises, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, hit the silver screen this past summer, I did not watch it till earlier this month. Why not? Maybe I wanted to prolong the inevitable: the final...
