by mike | Apr 10, 2017 | Death, Disaster Movies, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
A fine actor—and, from all I’ve ever heard about him, and even better person—Bill Paxton passed away a little over a month ago at the all-too-young age of sixty-one. A personal favorite of mine, Paxton played in quite a few of the fifty or sixty films that I include...
by mike | Feb 20, 2017 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The 1998 sci-fi/disaster flick, Armageddon, grossed well over half a billion dollars—so why is it a Guilty Pleasure? Doubtless because its reviews were uniformly awful. I mean, here is what Roger Ebert had to say: “The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the...
by mike | Jan 9, 2017 | Disaster Movies, Fantasy, Movies, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
Three of Hollywood’s leading men in one movie? Yes, the 2002 post-apocalyptic fantasy, Reign of Fire, gave us Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, and Gerard Butler, all with a common goal: kill the dragons, before humankind on Earth is no more. THEY’VE ALWAYS BEEN...
by mike | Oct 3, 2016 | Disaster Movies, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The bestselling author in question here is none other than Stephen King. His directorial effort, singular, is the 1986 “science fiction action horror comedy” film, Maximum Overdrive, based (loosely) on his short story, Trucks. The movie was a disaster both critically...
by mike | Dec 7, 2015 | Blowing Shit Up, Disaster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Yes, in case you didn’t know, tornadoes are responsible for blowing lots of shit up. Mother Nature does get pissed upon occasion. And nowhere is this better illustrated than in the two disaster movies, Twister (1996) and Into the Storm (2014). “THE EXTREME!” Twister...
by mike | Jul 20, 2015 | Disaster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Did you ever have a nightmare where you’re aboard a train that just rolls on and on, and you can’t get off of it? That’s what passengers on a train called Snowpiercer must endure—the difference being that they would not want to get off if their lives depended on...
