by mike | Mar 27, 2025 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
Since I first presented this post in 2022, The Conjuring Universe has expanded to include The Nun II in 2023. It will further grow later this year with The Conjuring: Last Rites. Back in 2019 I wrote about the seven films (at the time) that comprised what is called...
by mike | Mar 24, 2025 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Women |
If you watch old movies, especially from the 1940s and ’50s, you see things that, while uncomfortable by today’s standards, were typical of the era. For one thing: smoking. So many characters puffing their brains out, be it on an airplane, in a restaurant, or even in...
by mike | Mar 20, 2025 | Movies, Music, Musical Theater, Romance, Uncategorized |
Can even Spielberg top what was already a beloved classic musical? I first presented this post in 2022. As an old(er) guy I’m kind of a curmudgeon when it comes to change. I like the old Broadway musicals just the way they are, not remade, reimagined, rebooted, or...
by mike | Mar 17, 2025 | Action/Adventure, Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
As a New York City kid growing up in the 1950s I watched a lot of that era’s science fiction/horror flicks, mostly on WOR Channel 9’s “Million Dollar Movie.” (Given the miniscule budgets of these films, maybe it should’ve been called “Thousand Dollar Movie.”) Giant...
by mike | Mar 13, 2025 | Books, Humor, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized |
These books are so much fun to write. I first presented this post in 2022. Indeed he is, still the reluctant hero in my novel, The Horrors of Harrmel. Bernie first appeared in my 2016 Sword & Planet spoof, The Wizard from Harrmel, where he was zapped up from an...
by mike | Mar 10, 2025 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Death, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
I’m finding it hard to wrap my head around the reality that next month will mark one year since I lost my beloved Jacqueline. Often I find myself floating around my empty house in a daze of denial. Still, she made me promise to take care of myself and to keep on...
