by mike | Sep 14, 2026 | Action/Adventure, Crime, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Just to be clear, I totally enjoy all eight of the movies in the Mission: Impossible film franchise. I was even around for the TV series, which ran for seven seasons beginning in 1966, and two seasons in the 1980s. But hands down, my favorite film just happens to be…...
by mike | Dec 11, 2023 | Action/Adventure, Aging, Movies, Uncategorized |
Although the final film in one of the most enduring and endearing movie franchises, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, hit the silver screen this past summer, I did not watch it till earlier this month. Why not? Maybe I wanted to prolong the inevitable: the final...
by mike | Nov 7, 2022 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
You’d think that any movie based on a popular Michael Crichton novel would be a major hit. But the 1995 action/adventure film, Congo—while it did kind of okay at the box office—suffered the vitriol of critics, and its Razzie nominations were numerous. Even so, I love...
by mike | Oct 24, 2022 | Adventure fantasy, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized |
Actually, Harrison Ford will be 80+ when the fifth Indiana Jones film premieres next year. He was only in his mid-60s when he starred in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the fourth film in the series, which followed a nineteen-year hiatus....
by mike | Jul 6, 2020 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I don’t usually write about multiple Guilty Pleasures in one post. But the sci-fi/action films, Battle: Los Angeles (2011) and Battleship (2012) have much in common, so this seemed to make perfect sense. First, and probably least, the two films have stood next to each...
