by mike | Dec 30, 2024 | Death, Life, Uncategorized |
In a few days, 2024 will fall into the rearview mirror, and I will be glad to see it pass. The reason is obvious. Earlier this year I lost Jacqueline—my amazing bride, my best friend and soulmate—to the demon cancer. Yes, 2024 will be gone, but it will hardly be...
by mike | Dec 26, 2024 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I have no idea why I’m attracted to mountain-climbing movies like VERTICAL LIMIT, since all of them involve someone going SPLAT on the ground. This post first ran in 2021. I was on the fence about presenting the 2000 survival thriller, Vertical Limit, as a Guilty...
by mike | Dec 23, 2024 | Blowing Shit Up, California, Disaster Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Last week, on Ludwig Von Beethoven’s birthday (December 16th), I happened to watch DIE HARD, because…well, it’s that time of year. Not until afterward did I make the connection between Beethoven and Bruce. (If you know the movie, then you know what I mean.) Anyway, in...
by mike | Dec 19, 2024 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Quotes, Uncategorized |
Gather ’round the campfire, kiddies, and let’s see if we can gross one another out with some juicy lines from a few creepy movies. The first three sets are from films that feature cannibals. Yum! (This was a 2021 post.) “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his...
by mike | Dec 16, 2024 | Aging, Death, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
A memorable tagline: “One Black, one white, one blonde.” Michael Cole, the “White Guy” from the popular 1960s-70s crime drama, The Mod Squad, passed away last week at the age of 84. In death he joins co-stars Peggy Lipton (2019) and Clarence Williams III (2021). FROM...
by mike | Dec 12, 2024 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
I have no idea what the producers were thinking when they made this underwater dud. This post first ran in 2021. Like so many sequels before it, did the direct-to-video Deep Blue Sea 2 really need to be made? As a big fan of its predecessor, Deep Blue Sea, I of course...