by mike | Oct 4, 2021 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Okay, just to clarify, The Meg is a borderline Guilty Pleasure by virtue of its so-so reviews (one reviewer said, “…neither good enough, nor bad enough”), though it did do well at the box office, and a sequel is planned. Whatever; I would’ve enjoyed this creature...
by mike | Sep 27, 2021 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
That title is a double entendre, don’t you know? In the first place, the giant worm-things known as graboids are back on the small screen in Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020), the seventh film in the long-running Tremors franchise. And second, when a graboid dies a...
by mike | Aug 30, 2021 | Blowing Shit Up, California, Disaster Movies, Disasters, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Recently, while watching the Gerard Butler-fueled disaster film, Greenland, it occurred to me that a lot of couples with troubled marriages/relationships have been brought together by their harrowing experiences in movies of this genre. Weird. Here are just a few...
by mike | Aug 9, 2021 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The renowned director, James Cameron, was hardly a blip on the Hollywood radar screen in 1984 when he pitched his screenplay for a science fiction/action movie called The Terminator. Fortunately the film got done, he got to direct it, Arnold Schwarzenegger landed the...
by mike | Aug 2, 2021 | Death, Disaster Movies, Disasters, Movies, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized |
Last month I watched the much-honored 1997 film, Titanic, for the first time in many years. (I almost made it through the three-plus hours without bawling, until Jack bobbed up and said his farewells to Rose…) It reminded me that I had heard a replica of the doomed...
by mike | Jul 26, 2021 | Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized |
Film actors and actresses—especially the most creative ones—will deviate from a script more often than you’d think. Some of the most iconic movie lines were improvised. Here are a few of them. “I’m the king of the world!” When Leonardo DiCaprio stood on board the...
