by mike | Mar 26, 2018 | Books, Films About Writers, Guilty Pleasures, Humor, Life, Movies, Uncategorized, Writing |
It is hard to imagine any film starring Morgan Freeman, one of my favorite performers, bombing big-time. But if you go by the box office receipts of the 2012 comedy-drama, The Magic of Belle Isle, you’d have to wonder if anyone saw it. Add to that the film reviewers...
by mike | Mar 22, 2018 | Death, Ghosts, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
I still get a kick out of this weird flick. This post first ran in 2014. Be forewarned: the 2002 horror flick, Ghost Ship, has one of the most memorable—and gross—opening hooks in all of filmdom. We find ourselves aboard an Italian luxury ocean liner, the Antonia...
by mike | Mar 19, 2018 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
I recently re-ran my posts on the sequels to Tremors, the classic comedy-horror flick from 1990, starring Kevin Bacon. Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004) was actually a prequel, and aside from a short-lived TV series, it appeared that the days of the Graboids,...
by mike | Mar 1, 2018 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
This was the fourth Tremors film, and at the time I first presented this post in 2014, the last one. Things have changed since then. When I saw that Michael Gross, who played whacko right-wing survivalist Burt Gummer in the first three Tremors films, also starred in...
by mike | Feb 22, 2018 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This is the second sequel to the classic comedy/horror film, Tremors. I first presented this post in 2014. Burt Gummer becomes the star in the 2001 sequel, Tremors: Back to Perfection, which takes us back to the town of Perfection, Nevada, site of the first movie....
by mike | Feb 15, 2018 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I wrote about all four of the goofy Tremors films a few years back, before they came out with a new sequel in 2015. After revisiting the first batch of sequels over the next three Thursdays, I’ll present a new Monday post on Tremors 5: Bloodlines. A while back I wrote...
