OFFICIAL SITE OF AUTHOR MICHAEL RICKARD

Manager Appreciation Month continues at Canadian Bulldog's World and this time around, I have the privilege of writing about the unique...

It's Manager Appreciation Month. The good folks over at Canadian Bulldog's World (including yours truly) have assembled some fantastic...

William Friedkins's To Live and Die in L.A., a terrific thriller film, but does it qualify as film noir? Join me for part fourof this...

Join me for the conclusion to my look at some of the hottest summer wrestling supercards from yesteryear. This time, I look at Mid-South...

William Friedkins's To Live and Die in L.A., a terrific thriller film, but does it qualify as film noir? Join me for part three of this...

August 29, 1967 was a highly anticipated date for television viewers as it promised the end to Dr. Richard Kimble’s four-year flight from...

My recap of wrestling's summertime supercards and pay-per-views continues with my look back at Jim Crockett Promotions' Great American...

Another noir element used in L.A. is the use of shadow. The film uses shadow and light to create a dual image on several characters’...

August 22, 1967 marked an epoch in television history when the TV series The Fugitive prepared to close out its four-year run with a...

My series looking back at some of professional wrestling's biggest summertime events continues with a recap of the 1986 WWF supercard,...

William Friedkin’s 1985 film To Live and Die in L.A. is not only a terrific crime film but a true neo-noir film. The film contains noir...

Originally presented at Canadian Bulldog's World. Here's the latest installment in my series "Wrestling's Long Hot Summer." Last year I...

Editor's Note: Here's an essay I wrote for a British Literature class. The essay is two years old so the MLA formatting is a different...

Originally presented at Canadian Bulldog's World. Here's the latest installment in my series "Wrestling's Long Hot Summer." Last year I...

Editor's Note: Here's an essay I wrote for a British Literature class. The essay is two years old so the MLA formatting is a different...

People sometimes ridicule actors and actresses when they decide to produce a song and/or album. After all, what do they know about music?...

Originally presented at Canadian Bulldog's World By 1988, the World Wrestling Federation was steamrolling over its competition....

Here's a blast from the past (2015), an essay I wrote on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” (hereafter...

Much has been written over the last fifty or so years about Star Trek, the show that died in the ratings, but bounced back in...