by mike | Feb 20, 2020 | Movies, Native American Films, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
This film remains timeless, as well as heartbreaking. I first ran the post in 2016. Chris Eyre, director of the wonderful Smoke Signals, came up with another winner in his 2002 film, Skins, based on a novel by Adrian C. Louis. While this story contains its share of...
by mike | Feb 13, 2020 | Baseball, Books, Fantasy, Ghosts, Magical realism, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Yes, I do write a lot about Field of Dreams, the best movie ever, and here I go again. This is my original post, which I did in 2012. It began as a short story by Canadian author W.P. Kinsella in an anthology of baseball stories titled, Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to...
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....
by mike | Feb 6, 2020 | Aging, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I might’ve even shrunk a bit more since this post first ran in 2016. 😊 I scored my first driver’s license as a teen in New York City, shortly after they invented the automobile. It listed my height at 5’10”, and it still says that today. Tell the truth, I don’t think...
by mike | Jan 30, 2020 | Films About Writers, Movies, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Issues with our government have prevailed from the time we first HAD a government. This post first ran in 2016. Some critics—predictably—knocked the 2015 biographical drama, Trumbo, for its “historical inaccuracies.” Still, this excellent film, starring Bryan Cranston...
by mike | Jan 27, 2020 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I happened to be drinking coffee last week as I read some film teasers on Amazon Prime. The coffee wound up shooting out of my nose after reading one teaser in particular. It will be the first one on the following list. (Don’t be drinking anything.) A few others will...
