Mefisto In Onyx
Harlan Ellison wrote a novella in 1993 titled Mefisto in Onyx. Ellison always had some great titles, along with a unique voice, plus his well-known ornery behavior and outspoken personality. Regardless, his friends say he…
Category: Movies
The Uninvited 1988 (not by Alanis Morrisette)
I have looked into the face of, dare I say, genius, and my mind is blown. So much so that I had to pick pieces of my brain off the floor, brush them off and…
Star Wars Rise of Skywalker Predictions
I wonder what Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will be about because I’ve seen other folks speculating about what it will be about, which got me thinking about what my speculations would look like….
Memorable Monologues
Certain monologues have always stuck in my head and influenced my writing. Why did they stick in my head? I try to explain… I can’t find a clip of the next one, but I found…
What is It? It’s It, I guess…
I finally saw the new It movie from 2017. It’s really an easy movie to review. It can be summed up in one sentence: Scary clown charges camera and goes RAWR! It is a competently…
Logan and heart
I had an opportunity to view the film Logan over the past couple of nights. It’s that Wolverine movie that came out in 2017. I’m not sure how many stand-alone Wolverine movies there have been…
The Predator — Round Three
Another post about The Predator? Really? Yes, really. I find the journey from what was intended to what we got interesting. I had a chance to read the supposedly original script for The Predator (for…
The Predator — The Revisiting
I finished my The Predator review by stating that I’d have to think about whether or not to recommend it. I have now concluded my thinking. And I still don’t know what to think… I…
The Predator — The Review
SPOILERS The Predator is fun, more fun than I expected. It is not scary. It is not intense. It is not that great. As the movie goes along, it starts to slip off the beam,…
The Last Person To See The Last Jedi
It took me this long to see The Last Jedi because I found The Force Awakens to be ersatz Star Wars, which caused me to avoid Rogue One. When I finally saw Rogue One, I found it to…