New Year’s Resolutions are stupid. Many people make them and almost no one keeps them. I promise to lose weight. I promise to save more money. I promise to eat better. I promise to write more. I promise to eat more ice cream. OK. Maybe that last one is an easier New Year’s Resolution to […]
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So, I was visiting one of the indie author groups that I am a member of on Facebook and someone posted a link to an article from The Huffington Post about self-published authors. The article had a click-baiting title that was an automatic red flag: “Self-Publishing: An Insult to the Written Word.” Right off the […]
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When I first released Dollar Deal: The Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers, I put it out wide – everywhere from Amazon and Barnes & Noble to Kobo and overseas. By 2016, I decided to give Amazon Kindle Select a chance – meaning that I was exclusive to Amazon for all eBooks and I could take advantage […]
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When the Resident Evil movie franchise launched, video game fans rebelled. It wasn’t the world from the game, outside of the mansion, evil corporation, and monsters. The heroine was not part of any of the games...
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Resident Evil started out with a movie that pissed off a lot of the fans of the video games because it had little to do with the actual game story and focused on a character...
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Beware of going into a movie with very high expectations. I had heard how amazing The LEGO Batman Movie before stepping into the theater and, loving both The LEGO Movie and the various straight-to-DVD LEGO Batman movies,...
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The first John Wick movie was a wonderful throwback to some of the best b-grade action movies I loved in my younger days. While there are still some movies that reach that level today (Taken,...
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Fox was taking a big chance when they released Deadpool with an R-rating because they were risking losing family money on a superhero movie. There was nothing to worry about when it was the number...
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Kong: Skull Island brings back a beloved movie monster. However, what should a person really expect when they head in to see a new movie about King Kong? There are a lot of things going...
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Power Rangers should never have worked as a movie. That is just a fact. The original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television show was a Fox kids show that started in 1993 and was based...
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I promised you that I would keep you updated on the progress of my new fiction novel Fallen Star and then … nothing. Well, as happens much of the time, life got in the way but...
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I released by book, Dollar Deal: The Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers (BUY IT HERE) back in 2015 and have hosted a pair of Dollar Baby Film Festivals (one in Houston and one in Seattle). However,...
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The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie is my favorite movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that says a lot. While I think The Avengers is one of the best comic book movies of...
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Released as a made-for-TV horror movie for SyFy, The Crooked Man is a throwback slasher flick that shares a lot in common with Candyman. For those who have never seen that iconic classic horror film...
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When it comes to animated movies, there are tiers and mostly a person knows what to expect when they walk in. Movies from companies like Pixar, Disney, Aardman, and Laika are on the upper tier...
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When Gru and Lucy are fired from the AVL, Gru teams up with his twin brother Dru to seek revenge on his arch-villain in Despicable Me 3.
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Marvel did something special for their fans when it comes to their most recent addition to their television lineup.
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If you could only watch one Stephen King movie made in 2017, you need to watch It.
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Hello, NaNoWriMo, meet The Devil’s Playground. NaNoWriMo was when I buckled down and wrote my first draft of Fallen Star (2015) and when I wrote the entire manuscript of Dollar Deal: The Story of the Stephen King...
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Welcome to a new column I will be writing here on my personal website known as The King’s Ransom. In this column, I am re-visiting the entire library of Stephen King – the author who made...
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