by mike | Dec 7, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Okay, I don’t normally capitalize my headlines, but hey, this is a big deal for me. Somehow Jack’s favorite alien, the Old Guy, forgot about him for a long time—but all that has changed. Join an older—and maybe wiser?—Jack as he rides into Edgar Allan Poe’s head; as...
by mike | May 4, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized |
Never has that iconic line from the 1985 comedy/adventure, The Goonies, been more true than last week. Stage and screen star Josh Gad (The Book of Mormon, Frozen), a huge fan of the film, succeeded in facilitating, via Zoom, a virtual reunion on YouTube with just...
by mike | Nov 11, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Humor, Mystery Films, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless is best known for her iconic, kick-butt role as Xena: Warrior Princess, in a syndicated television series that ran for 134 episodes from the late 1990s through 2001. She has hardly lacked for work since then, with numerous film and TV...
by mike | Sep 23, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Uncategorized |
By my own checklist the 2003 historical adventure-fantasy film, 47 Ronin, is the perfect Guilty Pleasure. It bombed at the box office: check. Critics hated it: check. Yours truly loved it: double check. The film is based on actual events, which took place in...
by mike | May 27, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
If you are a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), you have more than likely seen the eagerly awaited Avengers: Endgame. But in case you haven’t, you need not worry that there are any spoilers in this brief homage. All I want to say is that this twenty-second...
by mike | Dec 17, 2018 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Monster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
The 2008 “epic adventure” film, 10,000 BC, would not be a guilty pleasure if judged only by its box office. It made a fair amount of money. But the reviews for its story, which is set in prehistoric times, were uniformly harsh, many citing it as “archaeologically...
