by mike | Dec 31, 2018 | Aging, Books, Life, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I first ran this post a few years ago. Given how relevant it remains, here it is once again. As the extremely challenging year 2018 comes to an end, I got to thinking: how in the name of Zeus’s butthole did it pass so quickly?! I guess when a year is 1/72nd of your...
by mike | Dec 24, 2018 | Fantasy, Ghosts, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Nightmares, Uncategorized |
This timely post has proven to be quite popular since I first ran it last year, so here it is again. Enjoy! As a Jewish kid growing up in The Bronx—in a neighborhood of mostly other Jews—I had little exposure to Christmas, other than learning it wasn’t “our” holiday....
by mike | Dec 20, 2018 | Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I don’t have a category headed, “Guilty Displeasure,” or this film would have qualified. I first presented this post in 2015. 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....
by mike | Dec 17, 2018 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Monster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
The 2008 “epic adventure” film, 10,000 BC, would not be a guilty pleasure if judged only by its box office. It made a fair amount of money. But the reviews for its story, which is set in prehistoric times, were uniformly harsh, many citing it as “archaeologically...
by mike | Dec 13, 2018 | Films About Writers, Movies, Research, Sports Movies, Uncategorized, Writing |
This is a compelling film that I first wrote about in 2015. Not a whole lot of folks saw the sports drama, Resurrecting the Champ—“inspired by a true story”—during its short theatrical run in 2007.That’s too bad, because it is an excellent film, and Samuel L....
by mike | Dec 3, 2018 | Books, Death, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Paranormal, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized |
So what did horror-meister Stephen King think about the Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House, a revisionist version of the 1959 classic ghost story by Shirley Jackson? He tweeted that it was great, practically a work of genius. And remember, he is no fan of...
