by mike | May 21, 2020 | Books, Bookstores, Films About Books, Movies, Romance, Uncategorized |
Mom & Pop stores have other problems these days. This post first ran in 2016. This 1998 romantic comedy stars Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, one of the most popular couples in that genre. But You’ve Got Mail offers another sobering reality from that era: the Big Box...
by mike | May 11, 2020 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Not much to laugh about these days, so for a break from all of the bad news, here is a rather outrageous scene from The 22nd Gear, the third book in my “Bicycling” trilogy. The setup: my protagonist, Jack Miller, has ridden his mountain bike onto a world where lesser...
by mike | May 7, 2020 | Books, Editing, Films About Writers, Movies, Publishing, Romance, Uncategorized, Writing |
Where there are writers, there are words. I first presented this post in 2016. Actually, I could have categorized the 2012 romantic drama, The Words, as a film about a writer writing about a writer—who’s writing about another writer. With a top-notch cast that...
by mike | Apr 30, 2020 | Books, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized |
This post first ran in 2016, and since that time the film version of Doctor Sleep hit the big screen—and the small one. I’ll comment on it at the end. In 1977, when Stephen King hit the bestseller lists in hardcover for the first time with his classic, The Shining, it...
by mike | Apr 23, 2020 | Books, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
How did Stanley Kubrick decide to produce a film version of The Shining? I first presented this post in 2016. In last week’s post I talked about Stephen King’s 1977 novel, The Shining. I have to believe that it initially thrilled the author to learn the film rights...
by mike | Apr 16, 2020 | Books, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
This series is about one of the scariest, most famous horror stories of all time. The post first ran in 2016. A while back I wrote a post titled, “A Jack Nicholson Snow Globe?” Inside the globe Jack’s dead eyes stare out through the snow in a scene from Stanley...
