by mike | Jul 10, 2025 | Action/Adventure, Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This is definitely a guilty pleasure, but I get a hoot out of its improbable plot. I first presented this post in 2022. A gorilla, a wolf, and an alligator walk into a bar. Wait, let me rephrase that. A giant gorilla, a giant wolf, and a giant alligator walk...
by mike | Jul 3, 2025 | Creature Features, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Thrillers, TV Shows, Uncategorized, Western Movies |
Sometimes we could all use a good scream, especially the way things are these days. This post first ran in 2022. One of my all-time favorite movies is the 1954 sci-fi/monster thriller, Them! That’s the one about nuclear testing in the New Mexico desert causing common...
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 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 | May 29, 2025 | Creature Features, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Well, since this post first appeared in 2022, another dinosaur film is on the horizon. Jurassic World Rebirth will be out in July. The recently released Jurassic World Dominion is the third film in the Jurassic World trilogy, and the sixth film in the Jurassic...
by mike | May 26, 2025 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
At this stage of my life it’s nice to discover a new Guilty Pleasure, and the 2009 comedy/horror movie, Infestation, fits the bill. My usual parameters—box office and reviews—don’t actually apply here, because I’m not even sure it had a box office, and the only...