by mike | May 4, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized |
Never has that iconic line from the 1985 comedy/adventure, The Goonies, been more true than last week. Stage and screen star Josh Gad (The Book of Mormon, Frozen), a huge fan of the film, succeeded in facilitating, via Zoom, a virtual reunion on YouTube with just...
by mike | Apr 27, 2020 | Death, Disaster Movies, Medical Thrillers, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Given the current state of affairs, you’d think people would be avoiding pandemic films like the plague. Curiously, my research revealed the opposite to be true. Folks just can’t seem to get enough of them, even though most are sheltering at home (we hope) while...
by mike | Apr 20, 2020 | Basketball, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
I believe it is significant that I’m writing this post on April 15th, which happens to be Jackie Robinson Day. The great baseball player—and even greater human being—broke the color barrier in what up until then had been a racially segregated sport, when he took the...
by mike | Apr 6, 2020 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Western Movies |
Well, not exactly, but we do have Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford co-starring in the 2011 sci-fi/western film, Cowboys & Aliens. With that kind of star power, and some decent reviews, you’d think this movie was a blockbuster hit, but not so fast. It did poorly at...
by mike | Mar 16, 2020 | Movies, Mystery Films, Native American Films, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Western Movies |
The 1992 film, Thunderheart, has been described as a “contemporary western mystery,” but it is so much more than that. It is “loosely based” on what is known as the Wounded Knee incident, which occurred in 1973, and other instances of Native American resistance, such...
by mike | Feb 10, 2020 | Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The above gaudy title was the tagline for This Island Earth (1955), a science fiction thriller from the “golden decade” of that genre. For generations raised on CGI, motion capture, and other high-tech wizardry, this film’s special effects might come off as laughable....
