by mike | Jul 18, 2016 | Books, Editing, Films About Writers, Movies, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
Actually, I could have categorized the 2012 romantic drama, The Words, as a film about a writer writing about a writer—who’s writing about another writer. With a top-notch cast that includes Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Dennis Quaid, and Jeremy Irons, among others, I...
by mike | Jul 11, 2016 | Books, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized |
In 1977, when Stephen King hit the bestseller lists in hardcover for the first time with his classic, The Shining, it became evident that he was on his way. Still, he wasn’t about to call all the shots when his story was optioned for film by the renowned director,...
by mike | Jul 4, 2016 | Books, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
In last week’s post I talked about Stephen King’s 1977 novel, The Shining. I have to believe that it initially thrilled the author to learn the film rights had been acquired by renowned director Stanley Kubrick. But ultimately, he did not like the end result. CAN...
by mike | Jun 27, 2016 | Books, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
A couple of months ago I wrote a post titled, “A Jack Nicholson Snow Globe?” Inside the globe Jack’s dead eyes stare out through the snow in a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic, The Shining, based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King. It occurred to...
by mike | May 16, 2016 | Books, Fantasy, Films About Books, Movies, Romance, Uncategorized |
Okay, who hasn’t seen the 1987 fairytale gem, The Princess Bride? Not ever seeing it would be inconceivable! This film, an instant cult classic, is on countless Top Whatever lists in comedy and other genres. It is definitely one of the fifty or sixty films in my Top...
by mike | Apr 25, 2016 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Horror, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
I am happy to report that Book Three in my “World After Death” series, Dark Seas of Maldrinium, has just been published. The story is a “revised-the-living-crap-out-of-it” version of a book that first came out in the late 1970s. It is also the first half of a strange...
