by mike | Aug 5, 2021 | Movies, Nightmares, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This post, which first ran in 2017, is about Invaders from Mars, one of the first influential science-fiction films of the 1950s. Growing up in the 1950s I got to experience first-hand the new wave of science fiction movies that defined the era. One of my absolute...
by mike | Jun 7, 2021 | Blowing Shit Up, Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Each of these two movies, the classic Predator (1987) and the not-so-classic Predator 2 (1990), features a single antagonist—a nasty-looking dude with dreads. So why, one would wonder, does it take an ungodly amount of blowing shit up to bring these alien hunters...
by mike | May 24, 2021 | Aging, Books, California, Humor, Native Americans, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
You likely know how that sentence ends. More about it shortly. In a previous post, “Writing Humor: It Doesn’t All Have To Be Funny,” I documented how my first comedy/science fiction novel, Bicycling Through Space and Time, came to be published in the ’90s. Berkley...
by mike | May 13, 2021 | Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Long before the Great White Shark kept us out of the water, there was the Gill-Man. I first presented this post in 2017. The science fiction and horror movies of the 1950s more than sufficed to scare the crap out of an impressionable kid like me. Foremost among them...
by mike | May 6, 2021 | Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Before Samuel L. Jackson began acting in seemingly every movie made since the 1980s, there was Whit Bissell. This post first ran in 2017. In one of my books from decades past I wrote about a late Hollywood character actor named Whit Bissell and said that he had played...
by mike | May 3, 2021 | Aging, Books, California, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
I thought you might get a hoot out of the first few pages of my latest literary gem, Back on the Bike Path. Since I hadn’t written anything for a while, it surprised me that I managed to ease into the story so effortlessly. But when my character, Jack Miller, is a...
