by mike | Feb 28, 2022 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
The 2016 version of Ghostbusters (Answer the Call), a remake of the original, featured an all-female starring cast. Many folks had an issue with that. I didn’t…I just enjoyed it for what it was. Get a life! Or an afterlife. The 2021 version, Ghostbusters: Afterlife,...
by mike | Feb 21, 2022 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
Having just watched the fourth film in the nearly forty-year-old franchise, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, I decided to feature these movies in my next three posts. This week: lines from the first two films. The following week, lines from the more recent entities. And...
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 | Jan 10, 2022 | Ghosts, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Uncategorized |
“Your girlfriend lives in the corner penthouse of spook central.” Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) delivers that line to fellow Ghostbuster Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) in the 1984 comedy/horror classic, one of my all-time favorite films. The building Ray is referencing...
by mike | Jan 3, 2022 | Blowing Shit Up, Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The sci-fi/horror film, Predator (1987), made a ton of money, got great reviews, and spawned a franchise that continues right up until today, with one or two more sequels apparently in the works. It didn’t hurt that its cast included Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse...
by mike | Dec 6, 2021 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I was on the fence about presenting the 2000 survival thriller, Vertical Limit, as a Guilty Pleasure. No problem with the box office, and it did have some decent reviews, including one from Roger Ebert. But other reviewers were brutal, including one who called it...
