A Walk In The Dark
I recently reread A Walk In The Dark by Arthur C. Clarke. It is widely considered a classic little suspense/horror/science fiction tale. It is about an astronaut on a planetoid who has to walk, in…
Ant-Man And Wasp And Villains
Ant-Man and Wasp is a cute movie. The actors are cute. The dialogue is cute. The action is cute. The direction is cute. The only things that stop the movie from being completely cute is…
The Outsider By Stephen King
I had to get myself something for my birthday, so I decided to try The Outsider by Stephen King. I kind of break King’s career, cross-referenced with my tastes, down like this: 1970s-1980s King: Amazing…
The Predator (2018) — Spoilers
Did you folks see the world exclusive image from Shane Black’s The Predator in Empire? Unfortunately, it spoils the whole movie. You can reverse engineer the entire story from that single image. You’ve got a…
The Final Countdown — Movie, Not Song
What if a US aircraft carrier from 1980 went back in time to 1941 and had a chance to defeat the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack force with modern weaponry, Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen? This…
What Waits Below (1984)
Avengers: Infinity War is out, so guess what I watched? Yep, a movie from 1984 called What Waits Below. It had that guy in it who is the brother of that guy who was in…
How I Wrote A Short Story
I finished a short story! How did I get to that point? It’s a grand, romantic odyssey. One day I was diddy-bopping along and thought, hey, I should write a story. What is a good…
Plot And Predator 2018 Revisited
Since I wrote my original post on the new Predator movie where I made up my own plot for fun, more details have come out about the movie’s actual plot. I am happy to see…
Peretti and Koontz
I’ve been getting back into the reading habit lately, partially for fun and partially to look at the prose of the authors whose books I am reading. I just finished The Oath by Frank Peretti….
Conan of the Aisles
Cast the furs from your shoulders and recline by the fire. It spits warmth while the night wind cuts like steel, and the sleet grinds its teeth against the timbers. The frosty tempest is of…