This blog shall stop at nothing and stay there, bringing all undiscerning readers up to date information about significant items of interest and intrigue that will certainly be interesting to someone somewhere at sometime. I shall also try to avoid being vague.
Die Hard is one of those rare things in nature. Rarer than a hen’s tooth. More rarer than a unicorn. Even more rarer than a Sasquatch riding a unicorn with a hen’s tooth in its innate rareness. No, my friends, enemies, and barely tolerated minor acquaintances at best, Die Hard is one of those rare …
Continue reading “Almost Equal Sequels Part XXI: Die Hard 2”
Franchises are not always obvious. Who knew that taking the framework of 1958’s It: The Terror Beyond Space while mixing in some HR Giger artwork and then coating everything with KY jelly would result in such a hit with audiences? But there was 20th Century Fox, suddenly sitting pretty with Alien’s sizeable box office returns …
Ah, the 1950s! The true glory days of the hard scrabble slightly financed sci-fi extravaganzas! Giant bugs and atomic beasts! Flying saucers and underwater creatures! Infinitesimal amounts of money were spent on a huge catalog of films that were unleashed onto the unwitting public. There were great posters, intriguing titles, and the promise of something unique and entertaining. And mothers across the …
Continue reading “Almost Equal Sequels Part XIX: War of the Colossal Beast “
As I write this in August 2025, there is still an opportunity to watch incredible creatures eating folks in your local theaters. No, I’m not talking about the unsettling weirdness that is Pedro Pascal in Fantastic Four: First Steps, you sillies! I mean dinosaurs! Honest to goodness, slathered with CGI dinosaurs! Yes, there are probably …
Continue reading “Almost Equal Sequels Part XVIII: The Lost World: Jurassic Park”
Ah, comedy! Remember when Hollywood made comedies? I know it seems like an eternity ago, but at one time in the dim and dark past, despite the dysentery and the covered wagons, studios thought that comedies were a worthwhile enterprise. They figured that audiences might pay to laugh at something on the big screen. And …
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***EDITOR’S NOTE: As I lazily transcribe and repurpose older posts from my former disused blog in a flailing effort to maintain relevance, I thank you all for sticking with me over these many years! Oh, and yes, it is me again, editing and reediting my edits to reedit once more. And now, here’s another bit …
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Please wholeheartedly receive the compliments of the season until those compliments just seem like gratuitous sucking-up after a while! Yes, another post! Trust me, no one was more surprised as I was about it! With this slew of postings, I started with A Charlie Brown Christmas and now National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation? Could my holiday …
As we come screaming into All Hallows Eve, allow me to wish you and yours the very best of the season! May the weather favor your trick-or-treating or, if you have/are weak-in-the-knees parents, your trunk-or-treating. (Insert my sad eyeroll here.) Which reminds me: Parental Trick-Or-Treating ProTip #4: To allay any fears regarding wackos placing poisonous razor-bladed lightbulbs in the children’s …
Continue reading “Through The Decades With Dear Boris: The Raven (1963)”
First off, let me offer a wonderful Christmas message to all via the tinsel strewn landscape from the James Bond world! Either through completely dumb luck or fortuitous planning or both or neither, I’ve managed to bring the only Christmas-themed James Bond film in at number two on today of all days! Gosh, are we really at …
Hello to all the gentle and dear readers out there in the vacuum of digital space! I can see that you’ve exhausted every single other website on the webnets and that’s why you’re finally down to this one. Well, I’m not bitter about that at all! Sit a spell and take yer shoes off, pardner! …
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