by mike | Oct 11, 2018 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Take a journey to the center of the Earth for a quick “repair” job on the planet. This post first ran in 2014. It is not for lack of box office that the 2003 sci-fi/disaster flick, The Core, is a guilty pleasure, because it supposedly made back its production budget,...
by mike | Oct 4, 2018 | California, Films About Writers, Movies, Romance, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
H.G. Wells told some pretty amazing stories, considering how long ago he wrote them. This post first ran in 2014. My previous posts in the “Films About Writers” series, Finding Forrester and Misery, featured fictional writers. In the 1979 movie, Time After Time, we...
by mike | Sep 24, 2018 | Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Uniformly poor reviews? A box-office bomb? Yes indeed, the 2000 sci-fi thriller, Red Planet, fits within all the parameters of a guilty pleasure. But as noted many times before, I’m easily entertained, so I have no problem checking it out every once in a while. A...
by mike | Sep 20, 2018 | Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The classics, such as The Day the Earth Stood Still, never grow old. This post first ran in 2014. In a recent post about movie quotes I used the most familiar one from the 1951 gem, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Though I hadn’t seen the movie in a long time, I still...
by mike | Sep 17, 2018 | Baseball, Humor, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
The 2009 film, The Perfect Game, was one of those “came-and went” movies that most folks weren’t even aware of when it breezed through their local multi-plexes. That’s too bad, because this heartwarming baseball story, based on true events, is a gem, easily one of the...
by mike | Sep 3, 2018 | Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The 2018 monster movie, Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell, is the sixth in a film series that began with the 1990 release, Tremors, which starred Kevin Bacon as Valentine McKee. Indeed, this series has run for nearly three decades—with an eleven-year hiatus between the 2004...
