by mike | May 23, 2022 | Adventure fantasy, Creature Features, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction |
Yes, this is going to be one of those IMHO posts, and you may or may not agree with which King Kong film is my favorite. No problem, we all know what we like. I might also add that I’m only talking about the three American-made films actually titled King Kong, as well...
by mike | May 12, 2022 | Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Aside from a noteworthy cast, RED PLANET met all of the criteria for a dud, therefore making it a Guilty Pleasure. This post first ran in 2018. Uniformly poor reviews? A box-office bomb? Yes indeed, the 2000 sci-fi thriller, Red Planet, fits within all the parameters...
by mike | Apr 21, 2022 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Well, apparently quite long, as there has already been a seventh entry in the series to hit the small screen. This post first ran in 2018. The 2018 monster movie, Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell, is the sixth in a film series that began with the 1990 release, Tremors,...
by mike | Apr 18, 2022 | Books, Humor, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized |
Indeed he is, still the reluctant hero in my recently published novel, The Horrors of Harrmel. Bernie first appeared in my 2016 Sword & Planet spoof, The Wizard from Harrmel, where he was zapped up from an Iowa cornfield and deposited on the deadly planet of...
by mike | Mar 17, 2022 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
My sci-fi/comedy Bicycling “trilogy” became a foursome when I wrote Back on the Bike Path in 2020, during the height of the pandemic. But back in 2018 I rewrote and revised the crap out of the third book in the series. Once again the trilogy is complete. My revised...
by mike | Mar 3, 2022 | Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I presented this post in 2018, and when I recently checked, nothing had changed. This film was a box-office bomb. I don’t get it; I just don’t. Solo: A Star Wars Story, the second spinoff after Rogue One, has been around over a month—long enough for it to be...
