by mike | Apr 24, 2025 | Creature Features, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
No secret, I already answered that question last week. Yes, Kong: Skull Island is my favorite, though I absolutely love the classic 1933 version and Peter Jackson’s awesome 2005 remake. It just so happens that I grab Kong: Skull Island off my shelf (actually, shelves,...
by mike | Apr 17, 2025 | Adventure fantasy, Creature Features, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Over ninety years now, and Kong is still the King. This post first ran in 2022. Yes, this is going to be one of those IMHO posts, and you may or may not agree with which King Kong film is my favorite. No problem, we all know what we like. I might also add that I’m...
by mike | Jan 30, 2025 | Creature Features, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Well, the best thing I can say about Jurassic World Dominion is that it merged the old crew with the new one. This post first ran in 2022. The long wait is over! (Drum roll here.) Jurassic World Dominion is here, so I said back then. I hadn’t seen a film inside a...
by mike | Jan 23, 2025 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Research, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized |
My next book is still in the “thinking” stage. This post first ran in 2022. When the pandemic drove us indoors in early 2020 (and wiped out the NCAA basketball tournament; I’m still not over that one…), I found a number of ways to keep busy. At that point I hadn’t...
by mike | Nov 21, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Uncategorized |
Heck, even Mickey, Donald, and Goofy climbed a beanstalk in search of a giant! I first presented this post about Jack the Giant Slayer in 2021. The 2013 fantasy-adventure film, Jack the Giant Slayer, is based on a nearly 300-year-old British fairytale titled, The...
by mike | Oct 3, 2024 | Aging, Baseball, Books, Fantasy, Ghosts, Magical realism, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
A real baseball game on the Field of Dreams? Yes, it really happened, back in 2021. “Three years ago at dusk on a spring evening, when the sky was a robin’s-egg blue and the wind as soft as a day-old chick, I was sitting on the veranda of my farm home in eastern Iowa...
