Category: Movies
They forgot they were dealing with Rambo! First Blood, Part II (1985)
(Another rewritten repost from my own blog) To paraphrase my friend Ross Bagby, some books and movies are ground-breakers, going where nobody’s gone before. Other fictional works don’t break fresh …
They’re devoid of emotion but that doesn’t stop them being mean and vicious.
Time for another cross-post from my own blog, dealing with material from my Aliens Are Here book, which should be out later this year. They’ve already picked the cover.Now that …
Painful to watch: The 1999 Wild, Wild West
(Another repost, from my own blog in 2019) The 1999 big-screen reboot of Wild, Wild, West should have been a blast. We have a talented crew of actors, special effects …
My Life in Movies
In 2017 this meme-list-game-datamining thing was going around Facebook, in which you were supposed to list your favorite movie from each year of your life. Naturally, like all things on Facebook, it’s coming around again. Since I never did it back then, I thought I’d do it now. I quickly realized that while a Gen-Z or Millennial could bang out a list of a couple dozen films pretty quickly, for an old fart like, me, a list of films for every year of my life is a major undertaking; rather than squander all that time on a Facebook post, I thought I’d turn it into an article here, where I can expound a bit on some of the entries.
Question of the Week: What’s the best consecutive-movies run by a director?
We’re back on movies, everyone!