by mike | Dec 30, 2021 | Adventure fantasy, Death, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Uncategorized |
Watching this film proves that I’m easily entertained. I first presented this post in 2018. The first time I watched the 2011 historical fantasy/adventure film, Season of the Witch—starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman—I did so with no preconceived notions. The...
by mike | Dec 27, 2021 | Aging, Books, Life, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I first ran this post seven years ago, and a few times since. Does life change much? You be the judge. As the year 2021 comes to an end this week, I got to thinking: how in the name of Zeus’s butthole did it pass so quickly?! I guess when a year is 1/75th of your...
by mike | Dec 16, 2021 | Books, Fantasy, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Riding a mountain bike into a world of old science fiction and horror movies can be a hoot. That’s what I did in The Ultimate Bike Path, which I re-released in 2018. In about a month or so I will be re-releasing The Ultimate Bike Path—A Retro Ride: Book Two, the first...
by mike | Dec 9, 2021 | Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Sword & Sorcery, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
This post first ran in 2018, just before the Governator had open-heart surgery. Glad he got through it okay. I’ve hardly let a single post about movie lines go by without at least one from Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose many action movies are among my favorites. This...
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...
by mike | Dec 2, 2021 | Books, Films About Writers, Guilty Pleasures, Humor, Life, Movies, Uncategorized, Writing |
Hardly anyone saw this heartwarming film, and that’s a shame. I first presented the post in 2018. It is hard to imagine any film starring Morgan Freeman, one of my favorite performers, bombing big-time. But if you go by the box office receipts of the 2012...
