by mike | Mar 14, 2024 | Action/Adventure, Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Geostorm was a bona-fide Guilty Pleasure! I first presented this post in 2020. 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...
by mike | Feb 26, 2024 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Of the all the numerous 1950s sci-fi/horror/“big bug” movies, Tarantula (1955) stands out as one of the best. Its director, Jack Arnold, was among the leading filmmakers of the era, with hits such as It Came from Outer Space (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon...
by mike | Jan 15, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Life, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This hardcover copy of the Jules Verne classic, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has been in my life for as long as I can remember. A “Rainbow Classic,” this edition was published in 1946, the year of this “young fart’s” birth. It is generously illustrated and...
by mike | Dec 4, 2023 | Aging, Books, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
I guess this will have to serve as a “short & sweet” post. It is definitely not for lack of ambition, although as a retired old fart (I prefer young fart), you might think I have all the time in the world on my hands. Nope; oftentimes I get frustrated over not...
by mike | Nov 23, 2023 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Why do aliens always want to suck out our brains and take over the planet? I first presented this post in 2020. I don’t usually write about multiple Guilty Pleasures in one post. But the sci-fi/action films, Battle: Los Angeles (2011) and Battleship (2012) have much...
by mike | Nov 20, 2023 | Adventure fantasy, Editing, Humor, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
Back in the day—the “day” being the 1970s and ’80s—I emulated my two muses, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard, with a spate of novels in genres such as Lost Worlds, Sword & Sorcery, and—of course—Sword & Planet. My five-book Reglathium series—which has...
