by mike | Apr 16, 2020 | Books, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
This series is about one of the scariest, most famous horror stories of all time. The post first ran in 2016. A while back I wrote a post titled, “A Jack Nicholson Snow Globe?” Inside the globe Jack’s dead eyes stare out through the snow in a scene from Stanley...
by mike | Apr 9, 2020 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
What was the deal with what should have been a hit movie? I first presented this post in 2016. This psychological thriller had movie critics at one another’s throats and close to figurative blows. But why? The Village was written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan,...
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 19, 2020 | Films About Writers, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
My old pal Edgar was, uh, a rather complex individual (he said, by way of understatement). This post first ran in 2016. Okay, I’ll stay on my Edgar Allan Poe kick for one more week. The 2012 film, The Raven, is not about Poe’s classic poem, but about Poe himself—more...
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 | Mar 5, 2020 | Books, Fantasy, Films About Books, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Romance, Uncategorized |
This is one of my all-time favorite films, and likely one of yours too. I first presented this post in 2016. Okay, who hasn’t seen the 1987 fairytale gem, The Princess Bride? Not ever seeing it would be inconceivable! This film, an instant cult classic, is on...
