by mike | Nov 27, 2023 | Aging, Blowing Shit Up, Disaster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Wow, that’s a lot of “Fs,” just like there are lots of “Fs” (unnecessary F-bombs) in the fourth Expendables film (presented as Expend4bles). This one, sadly, should bury the once-popular franchise, which bombed big-time at the box office, got the lowest score of the...
by mike | Oct 30, 2023 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
It’s that time again. Living in a gated 55+ community, I no longer have to hand out Halloween candy at the front door, since no one does trick-or-treating. These days I spend the holiday enjoying a horror movie marathon…three or four shockers. The rest of the year,...
by mike | Oct 12, 2023 | Death, Disaster Movies, Medical Thrillers, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Covid variants are still around, but it seems that many have gotten complacent about it. I first presented this post in April of 2020, shortly after most of the world was shut down. Given the current state of affairs, you’d think people would be avoiding pandemic...
by mike | Aug 7, 2023 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Our hero “is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound,” right? Uh, no, that’s another guy. In the 2018 action/disaster film, Skyscraper, our hero, Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson), can leap his way into the world’s tallest building, which happens to be on fire, while...
by mike | Jul 27, 2023 | Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
This sci-fi film has aged rather well, considering it first hit the silver screen nearly seven decades ago. I first presented this post in 2020. The above gaudy title was the tagline for This Island Earth (1955), a science fiction thriller from the “golden decade” of...
by mike | Jul 13, 2023 | Blowing Shit Up, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Well, I haven’t heard anything about a new Rambo film, and that’s probably a good thing. This post first ran in 2020. They titled the 2019 film Rambo: Last Blood, an obvious reference to the initial 1982 version, First Blood. I loved that film, based on the 1972 novel...
