by mike | Nov 21, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Uncategorized |
Heck, even Mickey, Donald, and Goofy climbed a beanstalk in search of a giant! I first presented this post about Jack the Giant Slayer in 2021. The 2013 fantasy-adventure film, Jack the Giant Slayer, is based on a nearly 300-year-old British fairytale titled, The...
by mike | Nov 18, 2024 | Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
You’re driving down the long (10 miles), lonely, poorly paved Clinton Road in West Milford, New Jersey. It is late at night, but you’ve heard about the Ghost Boy, and you want to check it out for yourself. You stop along Dead Man’s Curve, near a reservoir, where a...
by mike | Nov 14, 2024 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The sequel to The Meg, alluded to in this post, was a disappointment, like so many sequels. I first presented this post in 2021. Okay, just to clarify, The Meg is a borderline Guilty Pleasure by virtue of its so-so reviews (one reviewer said, “…neither good enough, or...
by mike | Nov 11, 2024 | Aging, Humor, Life, Mysteries, Uncategorized |
Sounds like the title of a Sherlock Holmes story, doesn’t it? But this incident was real, and I happened to have a role in it, so let me tell the tale. JUST AN ORDINARY WALK… I still do a fair amount of walking, maybe not as much as I did in the past, but at least 2-3...
by mike | Nov 7, 2024 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
Are they going to make an eighth Tremors movie? Who knows? This post first ran in 2021. That title is a double entendre, don’t you know? In the first place, the giant worm-things known as graboids are back on the small screen in Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020), the...
by mike | Nov 4, 2024 | Aging, Death, Life, Movies, Uncategorized |
We lost another gem last week. Comedic actress Teri Garr, 79, passed away from complications of multiple sclerosis, a disease she was first diagnosed with over two decades ago. I’m not going to present a biography of Ms. Garr’s life, or a detailed filmography. You’ve...
