by mike | Mar 14, 2019 | Blowing Shit Up, California, Disaster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
This post, first presented in 2015, was the first in my ongoing “Blowing Shit Up” series. 😊 Being a guy, it’s in my DNA—like most guys everywhere—to love movies in which they’re blowing shit up. Lots of shit; the more the better. In this new occasional series I’ll be...
by mike | Mar 4, 2019 | Disaster Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I can’t even guess at how many times I’ve seen the three original Jurassic Park films. It will take a long time for me to catch up with the Jurassic World trilogy. Heck, the third one isn’t even due till 2021. Here are the “better” and “best” films—IMHO, of course. #3...
by mike | Feb 28, 2019 | Books, Bookstores, Films About Books, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Research, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
This was the first post in my long-running series, “Films About Books.” It first ran in 2015. BY THE DEVIL’S HAND Roman Polanski’s eerie 1999 thriller, The Ninth Gate, opens with an old guy named Andrew Telfer hanging himself in his library amid shelves crammed with...
by mike | Feb 25, 2019 | Disaster Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Yes, I’m going to rate the five films in the Jurassic Park franchise (IMHO, of course), but it is not going to be in a worst-to-first way. I love dinosaur movies in general, and these were all entertaining, so I think good-to-better-to best would be more accurate....
by mike | Jan 24, 2019 | Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
This film offers a scary vision of the future. I first presented this post in 2015. As far back as Dr. Frankenstein creating his monster, there are many stories about the gross misuse of science and technology leading to disastrous results. Perhaps Ian Malcolm, the...
by mike | Jan 17, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Historical Novels, Publishing, Romance, Sword & Planet, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
Advice about the business and the craft of writing seldom gets dated. Let me share some thoughts from what I’ve experienced over the past gazillion years and about thirty novels written, in a post that last ran in 2015. When I made the commitment to start writing...
