Favorite Fictional Heroes Countdown–Part 3 (#80-71)

After a dying-computer related delay, we return to my countdown of favorite fictional heroes.  Hmm, that makes me want to make a list of my favorite fictional dying computers.  Hmm…HAL 9000, K-2SO, Data, the first Terminator…

Star Trek TOS 1

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Tremors – A movie about giant killer worms that I’ll defend with a passion

If movies are to be judged not based purely on what they are, but rather on how well they achieve what they set out to do, then Tremors, from 1990, may need to be rated as “absolutely perfect.”

Valentine McKee Kevin Bacon Continue reading Tremors – A movie about giant killer worms that I’ll defend with a passion

“A Few Good Men”

I bought a DVD of Rob Reiner’s film A Few Good Men some time ago on one of those “Hey, this is a good movie!” sort of impulses, but never watched it until the opportunity presented itself last week. I was looking for a film to watch with some workmates – one of them is a big Jack Nicholson fan, and yet had never caught this film. Continue reading “A Few Good Men”