by mike | May 11, 2015 | Blowing Shit Up, California, Disaster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Being a guy, it’s in my DNA—like all guys everywhere—to love movies in which they’re blowing shit up. Lots of shit; the more the better. In this new occasional series I’ll be exploring films that shake the theater—or your living room—and cause premature hearing loss....
by mike | Apr 27, 2015 | Books, Bookstores, Films About Books, Horror Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Thus begins a new series on my blog. Just to clarify, there are countless films “adapted from” or “based on” one book or another. That is not what I’m doing here. As the title says, these movies are “about” a book or books. For example, on my to-do list are The...
by mike | Apr 6, 2015 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This should be an easy one for you. What sci-fi show am I thinking about? It involves a starship traveling the galaxy on a deep-space exploratory mission. The captain is usually found in the company of his first officer and the ship’s doctor. Its plot is as much a...
by mike | Mar 23, 2015 | Medical Thrillers, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
As far back as Dr. Frankenstein creating his monster, there are many stories about the gross misuse of science and technology leading to disastrous results. Perhaps Ian Malcolm, the chaos theorist in Jurassic Park, said it best. When addressing John Hammond, whose...
by mike | Mar 2, 2015 | Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
As a mere slip of a lad in the 1950s, I totally enjoyed (and had the crap scared out of me by) the numerous science fiction and horror movies spawned during that decade. Paranoia ruled in the ’50s, folks being worried about—in no particular order—the threat of...
by mike | Feb 16, 2015 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
In case you don’t know, that line comes from the 2006 horror/thriller flick, The Wicker Man, a remake of a 1973 British film of the same name. I could have just as easily gone with the title, “Oh no, not this movie!” and been spot-on. Both critically and at the box...
