My Thrilling Jurassic World Film Review
Jurassic World: The Film Review In 1990, I picked up a book at the library that looked interesting. On the back cover it said: “An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has...
View ArticleSir Christopher Lee Has Passed At Age 93
A personal hero of mine passed away on Sunday, June 7th. He is probably the most underrated and unappreciated actor of the past 50 years. His body of work comprises 207 film appearances, 75 television...
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Sharknado 3! Please Make Them Stop!
Syfy Channel has done it again. They have lowered the bar on quality and entertainment at the same time to a level that even I may not cross. I’m talking about Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! A masterpiece...
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Mastermind Lessons I Learned From Great Movies
Great Master Minds In Films There are lots of classic films that illustrate the idea of the mastermind. What great kid movie ever came together without there being a group meeting in which they...
View ArticleSuccess Lessons I Learned From John McClane in the Die Hard Films
If there is one character that can always make the best of the bad situation and think on his feet at the same time, it would be John McClane. I’m talking, of course, about the Die Hard films. For...
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Lessons People Should Have Learned From The Zombie Apocalypse
Ever since that afternoon back when I was 13 years old, I’ve been watching movies about the Zombie Apocalypse. I’ll admit right off the bat that I’m a Big Fan. In all the movies, the people always...
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2 Don’t Lose Your Focus Videos
In the Stunt Man, Cameron is on the run from the police when he stumbles onto a live film set. His intervention results in the film stunt man accidentally drowning. Filming cannot continue until a new...
View ArticleUnited 93: A Heartbreaking Film Review
United 93 traces events that are still very close to me and my family. It is all too real reenactment of those tragic events on that day 14 years ago. The majority of the action takes place aboard...
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2 Highly Entertaining Achieving Your Goals Videos
“In 1855, England was at war with Russia in the Crimea… But in 1855, there had never been a robbery from a moving train.” Thus begins The Great Train Robbery, a great movie from 1979, written and...
View ArticleGoal Setting Lessons I Learned From My Favorite Motion Pictures
Goal Setting In The Movies While most people look at movies is simply entertainment, I’ve started looking at them from a different angle. Quite a few can be seen in the light of setting goals. In...
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The Great Escape, The Master Mind And Setting Goals
Wednesday is Movie Review Day. I’ll highlight and review a film and its relevance to Success and other related principles. In the spring of 1943, in Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), in...
View ArticleIt’s Don’t Call Me Shirley Saturday. What Makes You Laugh?
Every Saturday, we will take a light look at the world. We will be investigating what makes people laugh. Laughter is a very good medicine, especially for curing what ails us. Dr. Norman Cousins wrote...
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Night Of The Living Dead And Success Principles
A young woman watches as her brother is killed in a graveyard by a walking dead man. She runs away and smashes her car into a tree, getting out just in time to avoid being attacked by the dead man....
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Buster Keaton And The Best Of Airplane!
Welcome to Don’t Call Me Shirley Saturday. In our continuing investigation into the world of comedy, I thought it would take the time to explain what titles of these posts refer to. Airplane! In 1980,...
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Can You Help Us Save Yoda?
Click to tweet Who doesn’t know Yoda? That little puppet Jedi master captured all of our hearts when he debuted in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. since then, he has been in 4 other Star Wars films,...
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The Return Of Mystery Science Theater 3000! It’s Up To Us To Do It!
Many of us remember, and miss, Mystery Science Theater 3000, an hysterical show dedicated to our love of bad films. For 197 episodes, from 1989 until 1999, fans of humor and bad movies were treated to...
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Don’t Call Me Shirley Saturday Presents The Best Of Mystery Science Theater 3000
With the MST3K Kickstarter approaching $4 million, I thought it was time to show off just how truly funny this show is. For 197 episodes, we were treated each week to an often terrible film made funny...
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2 Captain America: Civil War. Who’s Side Are You On? Videos
On May 6, 2016, Captain America: Civil War will open. It will be a big money maker for reasons that will be clear to you soon. This won’t be your regular Captain America film. This one is so big that...
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Don’t Call Me Shirley Saturday Looks At Buster Keaton
Today we will look at the greatest genius that has ever worked in Films. There are others to be sure, like Orson Welles, Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, no one has done more to shape and influence the...
View ArticleMy Annual Top 5 Christmas Movies List Videos
For those of you not here last year at this time, I’d like to extend a warm and hopeful wish for this Christmas Season, even if you don’t celebrate it. Christmas is more than just celebrating the...
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