by mike | Oct 27, 2014 | Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Fun time again with some memorable movie lines that span quite a few decades. Enjoy! “You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.” Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) has many notable lines in the 1991 Academy...
by mike | Apr 23, 2014 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
When I saw that Michael Gross, who played whacko right-wing survivalist Burt Gummer in the first three Tremors films, also starred in Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, I assumed this was yet another sequel. But no, this one takes place in 1889, about a century before the...
by mike | Apr 16, 2014 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
A while back I wrote about one of my favorite dumb movies, the 1990 goofy comedy-horror flick, Tremors (see my post, “Guilty Pleasures: Tremors”). I’ve watched it many times, and while I knew that there had been three sequels made, I had always avoided them—until...
by mike | Mar 26, 2014 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction |
The 1997 sci-fi/horror flick, Mimic, is one of my favorites, though to date I had not written about it. That changes today. Mimic, directed by Oscar-nominated Guillermo del Toro, features Oscar winners Mira Sorvino and F. Murray Abraham, Oscar-nominated actors Josh...
by mike | Jan 6, 2014 | Baseball, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
That line comes from my second-favorite movie of all time, Frequency. Released in 2000, this fantasy/baseball/serial killer/father & son relationship flick, starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel, has just about everything I could want in a story. But for my wife...
by mike | Sep 5, 2013 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Holocaust, Horror, Life, Native Americans, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Sorcery, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
Through the centuries decades I’ve been asked a thousand times, “Mike, why do you write?” Being of eastern European descent I always answer that question with other questions. “Why do I write?” you ask. “Why do I breathe? Why do I eat and drink?” That’s about how...
