by mike | Aug 11, 2022 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
When it comes to “B” horror movies there’s bad cheesiness, and there’s good cheesiness. SEA BEAST slots among the latter, as I pointed out in this 2019 post. The 2008 monster flick, Sea Beast, originally titled Troglodyte, is one of many films in the SyFy Channel’s...
by mike | Jul 25, 2022 | Creature Features, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The recently released Jurassic World Dominion is the third film in the Jurassic World trilogy, and the sixth film in the Jurassic DinoVerse, which began with Jurassic Park in 1993. Being the lowest-rated film of the franchise, will it be the final one? Maybe…or maybe...
by mike | Jul 18, 2022 | Creature Features, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) uttered that awesome comeback line in Jurassic Park (1993). I’ll give you the full context shortly. There are a lot of great lines in what I consider the best of all the films in the Jurassic DinoVerse (my word). Here are a few...
by mike | Jul 14, 2022 | Books, Death, Editing, Films About Writers, Ghosts, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Romance, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
This film could’ve been called “Romancing the Ghost.” I first presented the post in 2019. The 2006 mystery/ghost story, Half Light, starring Demi Moore, somehow got past me all these years. Well, better late than never. Here is a brief introduction, with absolutely no...
by mike | Jul 7, 2022 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Monster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
I wonder how many other films are “archaeologically inaccurate.” Gawd! This post first ran in 2018. The 2008 “epic adventure” film, 10,000 BC, would not be a guilty pleasure if judged only by its box office. It made a fair amount of money. But the reviews for its...
by mike | Jul 4, 2022 | Baseball, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
The 1989 baseball film, Major League, is one of the most outrageous comedies ever to hit the silver screen. The characters and their lines are still quoted to this day, thirty-three years later. But one such character, who had no lines in the movie and was not even...