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 | Jan 27, 2025 | Books, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
If the underachieving 1995 sci-fi/horror flick, Village of the Damned, is remembered for one thing, it is the final appearance in a theatrical film for its star, CHRISTOPHER REEVE. Later that year he would suffer the equestrian accident that would paralyze him and...
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 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...
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 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...
