by mike | Jul 8, 2024 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Quotes, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Last week I wrote about my favorite Donald Sutherland film, the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I thought it might be fun to highlight some quotes from this terrifying story. Health Department worker Matthew Bennell (Sutherland) on the phone to the...
by mike | Jul 4, 2024 | Baseball, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
This is one of my, ahem, R-rated posts, which first ran in 2021—during the baseball season, of course. Rich guy Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen) is the third baseman for the Cleveland Indians in the outrageous 1989 sports comedy, Major League. Dorn is also a philanderer,...
by mike | Jun 6, 2024 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Quotes, Uncategorized |
No CGI in the classic horror movies of yore, but they could still scare the crap out of you. Here are some memorable lines from a few of them. This post first ran in 2021. “My, what a big bat!” Yes, quite large. John Harker (David Manners) uttered this line in the...
by mike | Jan 29, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Movie Lines, Movies, Quotes, Uncategorized |
A wizard of the Istari order, Gandalf the Grey—later, after his death during a battle with a Balrog, Gandalf the White—is a dominant figure in the two remarkable screen trilogies, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Admirably portrayed by Sir Ian McKellen, he also...
by mike | Jan 22, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Movie Lines, Movies, Quotes |
A wizard of the Istari order, Gandalf the Grey—later, after his death during a battle with a Balrog, Gandalf the White—is a dominant figure in the two remarkable screen trilogies, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Admirably portrayed by Sir Ian McKellen, he also...
by mike | Dec 25, 2023 | Fantasy, Ghosts, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Nightmares, Romance, Uncategorized |
This was supposed to be a “Christmas post” when it first ran many years ago, but since then it has been viewed countless times—in just about every month of the year. As a Jewish kid growing up in The Bronx—in a neighborhood of mostly other Jews—I had little exposure...
