by mike | Nov 12, 2020 | Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports Movies, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized |
In these challenging times we could all use a good laugh, so this edition of Movie Lines is all about quotes from comedy films. The post first ran in 2017. “But we Romans are rich. We’ve got a lot of gods. We’ve got a god for everything. The only thing we don’t have a...
by mike | Nov 5, 2020 | Fantasy, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Nothing like a good, inspirational sports movie. This post first ran in 2017. The 2012 film, Touchback, is another inspirational sports movie that you undoubtedly missed. I viewed it on Netflix last year because I enjoy sports movies, and because Kurt Russell, one of...
by mike | May 14, 2020 | Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Quotes, Sports Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Here are some notable quotes from a few of my favorite flicks. This post first ran in 2016. “I play hockey and I fornicate, ’cause those are the two most fun things to do in cold weather.” – Skank Marden (Ron Eldard) to a female reporter in one of the funniest—and...
by mike | Apr 20, 2020 | Basketball, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
I believe it is significant that I’m writing this post on April 15th, which happens to be Jackie Robinson Day. The great baseball player—and even greater human being—broke the color barrier in what up until then had been a racially segregated sport, when he took the...
by mike | Feb 13, 2020 | Baseball, Books, Fantasy, Ghosts, Magical realism, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Yes, I do write a lot about Field of Dreams, the best movie ever, and here I go again. This is my original post, which I did in 2012. It began as a short story by Canadian author W.P. Kinsella in an anthology of baseball stories titled, Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to...
by mike | Dec 12, 2019 | Baseball, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Native American Films, Native Americans, Sports Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I’ve seen some of my favorite movies so many times that I can recite much of the dialogue in a lot of them. Here are some more of my favorites. This post first ran in 2016. “I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the west. Take this down: I...
