by mike | Jun 22, 2017 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I love movies with anything large and deadly that crawls, flies, slithers, shuffles, swims, etc.—a thought that I shared in this 2013 post. My dear bride is not into my kind of bad movies, so I usually watch them when she’s out. When she’s home, we watch mutually...
by mike | Apr 3, 2017 | Books, Death, Holocaust, Life, Research, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I’ve chosen this time to re-run a post from a few years back. Why? Because it seems that EVIL is running rampant, not only around the world, but also in our own country. And if anything, it is getting worse. This morning my bride picked up the main section of our...
by mike | Feb 6, 2017 | Books, Films About Books, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
When William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist, proclaims, “I’ve never seen a more terrifying film,” you have to take notice. He was referring to the 2014 Australian psychological horror film, The Babadook, and I cannot disagree with his assessment. This one is...
by mike | Jan 2, 2017 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Ghosts, Historical Novels, Horror, Humor, Life, Native Americans, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
As the new—and uncertain—year of 2017 begins, I’ve had a chance to look back at what I’ve accomplished in recent years. The last seven years, to be more specific, ever since the eye-opening experience of a brush with my own mortality. After surviving quadruple bypass...
by mike | Dec 26, 2016 | Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
It is hard to imagine a story written by the great Ray Bradbury NOT translating well to the big screen. But such was the case with the 2005 sci-fi thriller, A Sound of Thunder. Bradbury published the story in Collier’s magazine (1952) and he later included it in his...
by mike | Nov 21, 2016 | Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
If you’re reading this on its posting date, Monday the 21st, then I’m on my way back from Iowa after a visit with my bride’s family. So what better film to choose for my first quote? “Officially, my major was English, but really it was the ’60s. I marched, I smoked...
