by mike | May 23, 2022 | Adventure fantasy, Creature Features, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction |
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 only talking about the three American-made films actually titled King Kong, as well...
by mike | Mar 17, 2022 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
My sci-fi/comedy Bicycling “trilogy” became a foursome when I wrote Back on the Bike Path in 2020, during the height of the pandemic. But back in 2018 I rewrote and revised the crap out of the third book in the series. Once again the trilogy is complete. My revised...
by mike | Mar 7, 2022 | Fantasy, Ghosts, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
A while back, when I ranked the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World films, I mentioned that it was not a matter of Worst to First, given that I did not think any of them sucked. Good to Great was more like it. The same thing holds true for the four Ghostbusters movies. This...
by mike | Mar 3, 2022 | Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I presented this post in 2018, and when I recently checked, nothing had changed. This film was a box-office bomb. I don’t get it; I just don’t. Solo: A Star Wars Story, the second spinoff after Rogue One, has been around over a month—long enough for it to be...
by mike | Feb 14, 2022 | Creature Features, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The long wait is almost over! (Drum roll here.) Jurassic World Dominion is scheduled to open in theaters on June 10th. I haven’t seen a film inside a movie theater in years, but I will make an exception for this one. I mean, it’s dinosaurs, right? Even better: it...
by mike | Feb 7, 2022 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Research, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
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 written a new book in years, but circumstances being what they were, I decided...