by mike | Jun 23, 2025 | Action/Adventure, Creature Features, Horror Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Last Friday, in addition to it being the Summer Solstice, Steven Spielberg’s classic thriller, Jaws, celebrated the 50th anniversary of its 1975 release. Naturally, I had to watch the awesome movie for the…let’s see, 783rd time, give or take. I never get tired of what...
by mike | Jun 16, 2025 | Action/Adventure, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Uncategorized |
With rare exceptions, a sequel to a popular movie seldom lives up to the original. There is one main reason why sequels are even made: money. It is true these days, and it was true back in 1933, when Son of Kong was released barely nine months after the insanely...
by mike | Jun 9, 2025 | Action/Adventure, Adventure fantasy, Creature Features, Fantasy, Movies, Uncategorized |
In my misspent youth, when I wasn’t outside playing with the dinosaurs, I would watch these newfangled things called movies. One of my absolute favorites was the 1949 fantasy-adventure, Mighty Joe Young, a story about a ginormous gorilla taken from its habitat to be...
by mike | Jun 2, 2025 | Action/Adventure, Death, Disaster Movies, Disasters, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I finally figured it out. I finally understood why, given my fear of heights and an even greater phobia about falling, I watched just about every mountain-climbing movie out there. It was because—from the safety of my couch or the theater seat—I wanted to understand...
by mike | Apr 14, 2025 | Action/Adventure, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
If you’re an aficionado of old movies and TV shows, you’ll likely recognize most or all of the following names. Jack Palance; Martin Landau; Cameron Mitchell; Neville Brand; Sue Ann Langdon; Ralph Meeker; Larry Storch; David Caruso. What is the link? All eight of them...
by mike | Mar 17, 2025 | Action/Adventure, Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
As a New York City kid growing up in the 1950s I watched a lot of that era’s science fiction/horror flicks, mostly on WOR Channel 9’s “Million Dollar Movie.” (Given the miniscule budgets of these films, maybe it should’ve been called “Thousand Dollar Movie.”) Giant...
