by mike | Nov 30, 2020 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The much-maligned 2017 film, Geostorm, is a disaster movie. And a sci-fi movie. And a political thriller. Guess what: I enjoy disaster movies; and sci-fi movies; and political thrillers. So despite its poor box office and terrible reviews, I love this film. (And as a...
by mike | Nov 19, 2020 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
A huge money-making film, despite its terrible reviews. This post first ran in 2017. The 1998 sci-fi/disaster flick, Armageddon, grossed well over half a billion dollars—so why is it a Guilty Pleasure? Doubtless because its reviews were uniformly awful. I mean, here...
by mike | Nov 9, 2020 | Aging, Death, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Just like the many larger-than-life characters that he played on the silver screen, Sean Connery toughed it out for ninety years on this plane of existence before succumbing on Halloween. I count many of his films among my favorites and have previously written about...
by mike | Oct 8, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Ghosts, Historical Novels, Horror, Humor, Life, Native Americans, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
When I first presented this post I had put seven years behind me following a health issue that nearly sent the Mother Ship down to take me home. Four more years have passed, so I’ve updated this post. As the challenging year of 2020 staggers to an end, I’ve had a...
by mike | Oct 1, 2020 | Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
This post, which first ran in 2016, contains a remarkable, chilling observation at the end by Ray Bradbury regarding the U.S. Presidency. It is hard to imagine a story written by the great Ray Bradbury NOT translating well to the big screen. But such was the case with...
by mike | Sep 24, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
I changed the title of this post, first presented in 2016, but left the introduction pretty much as is, because things haven’t changed much, and if anything they’ve gotten worse. I’m sure you’ll know what I mean. This past year has been a challenging one, to say the...
