This week’s Movie of the Week is Prehistoric Beast. It’s about an imagined Tyrannosaurus Rex and the film was released in 1984. The success of this shorter film (about 10 minutes) led to a full-length television documentary about dinosaurs in 1985, called Dinosaur! By today’s standards the effects don’t seem all that great, but at the time these came out they were quite good. In fact, Dinosaur! Won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in 1986. Continue reading →

“Earth Vs. The Spider” is the first post in a regular series entitled, “Free Movie of the Week.” It’ll just be unusual movies that I think have some sort of coolness to them and that are no longer under copyright.

Grab some popcorn, sit back, relax and enjoy my feature presentation of “Earth Vs. The Spider”! Continue reading →

I heard that the trailer for Dumb and Dumber To with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels was making its debut on The Tonight Show last night. I’ve been looking forward to this movie for twenty years! So I knew I needed to post about it. Here is the trailer and my thoughts follow.

I remember watching the original Dumb and Dumber movie as a 14 year old with my Continue reading →