Written by James M. Tate / 8/07/2022 / No comments / action , adventure , cult , fifties , gerald mohr , ib melchior , jack kruschen , les tremayne , nora hayden , science-fiction
NORA HAYDEN ORBITS IB MELCHIOR'S 'THE ANGRY RED PLANET'

Title: THE ANGRY RED PLANET Year: 1959 Rating: *1/2 With five years until the exceptionally-creative science-fiction flick THE TIME TRAVELER...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/06/2022 / No comments / akim tamiroff , brit ekland , british , comedy , cult , french , heist , jailbreak , maria grazia buccella , peter sellers , satire , sixties , victor mature
PETER SELLERS, BRITT EKLAND & VICTOR MATURE 'AFTER THE FOX'

Britt Ekland in AFTER THE FOX Year: 1966 Rates: **1/2 Victor Mature plays an aged, has-been actor who spends so much time bickering with age...
PETER FALK, LAURENE LANDON & VICKI FREDERICK 'ALL THE MARBLES'

Vicki Frederick and Laurene Landon in ALL THE MARBLES Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 Three dots following a sentence usually means... there'...
STEVE COCHRAN & RUTH ROMAN IN 'TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY'

Steve Cochran in TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY Year: 1951 Rating: **1/2 While it's not strange having swarthy and handsome, experienced tough ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/05/2022 / No comments / british new wave , dark comedy , exploitation , james mason , jazz score , peter sellers , road movie , shelley winters , sixties , stanley kubrick , sue lyon
SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

LOLITA Year: 1962 Rating: ****1/2 Between Stanley Kubrick's financial gig on Kirk Douglas's epic SPARTACUS and the immense Cold War ...
DIRECTOR STANLEY KUBRICK'S BOXING NOIR OF 'KILLER'S KISS'

Felice Orlandi from KILLER'S KISS Year: 1955 Rating: **** When it's not a primal, jazz piano, mamba-like rhythm as gangster/dance c...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/04/2022 / No comments / al lettieri , hubert cornfield , jazz score , jess hahn , kidnapping , marlon brando , neo noir , pamela franklin , richard boone , rita moreno , sixties , suspense , thriller
HUBERT CORNFIELD NEO NOIR 'THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY'

The Night of the Following Day 1969 Rating: ***1/2 There are two things that must be intentional about THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY: One i...
HUBERT CORNFIELD'S TRUCKER HEIST FILM NOIR 'PLUNDER ROAD'

Title: PLUNDER ROAD Year: 1957 Rating: **** Hubert Cornfield's PLUNDER ROAD is more of a post heist thriller than a heist centered b-m...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/03/2022 / No comments / exploitation , fifties , film noir or melodrama , irvine lerner , jazz score , john archer , kathie browne , kelly thorsden , patricia blair , road movie , steven ritch , vince edwards
VINCE EDWARDS IN THE ATOMIC AGE LATE NOIR 'CITY OF FEAR'

Title: CITY OF FEAR Stars: Vince Edwards, Steven Ritch Year: 1959 Rating: *** An escaped convict, played by Vince Edwards , steals a metal c...
NOIR TORPEDO VINCE EDWARDS KILLS IN 'MURDER BY CONTRACT'

Title: MURDER BY CONTRACT Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2 Deliberately sparse and slow-paced, unpretentiously stylized film noir with a solitary j...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/02/2022 / No comments / agnes moorehead , classic , delores rio , everette sloane , film noir or melodrama , joseph cotten , mystery , orson welles , suspense
ORSON WELLES MERCURY THEATER THRILLER 'JOURNEY INTO FEAR'

Orson Welles & Joseph Cotten in JOURNEY INTO FEAR Year 1943 rating **** An entertaining, lightweight suspense yarn about a passive ar...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/01/2022 / No comments / dennis hopper , don marshall , gary lockwood , nichelle nichols , ricardo montalban , scott wilson , sixties , star trek , TV , woody strode
LIEUTENANT UHURA ON GENE RODDENBERRY'S THE LIEUTENANT'

Future Star Trek Nichelle Nichols on THE LIEUTENANT: TO SET IT RIGHT Year: 1964 Rating: *** Gene Roddenberry's STAR TREK made Nichelle ...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/31/2022 / No comments / george takei , james doohan , leonard nimoy , nichelle nichols , robert wise , seventies , star trek , stephen collins , william shatner
VISUALLY MARVELING OVER 'STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE'

Title: STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 All the Original Cast STAR TREK films have titles that fit the plot... from a...
ISAAC HAYES, YAPHET KOTTO & NICHELLE NICHOLS 'TRUCK TURNER'

Nichelle Nichols and Paul Harris in TRUCK TURNER Year: 1974 Rating: ****1/2 At a certain point, with pressure to stop Blaxploitation films.....
Written by James M. Tate / 7/29/2022 / No comments / alvy moore , brian keith , ensemble , fifties , film noir or melodrama , gambling , guy madison , heist , jean willes , kathryn grant , kerwin matthews , kim novak
BRIAN KEITH AND KERWIN MATTHEWS IN '5 AGAINST THE HOUSE'

Title: 5 AGAINST THE HOUSE Year: 1955 Rating: ** There are more snags in making 5 AGAINST THE HOUSE a decent heist-noir-thriller than the st...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/28/2022 / No comments / anne francis , dana andrews , drama , drive-in , jazz score , jeffrey hunter , kathie browne , neo noir , nicolas coster , richard kiel , sixties , strother martin , thriller , troy donahue , viveca lindfors , william conrad
WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM' AND 'MY BLOOD RUNS COLD'

William Conrad Directorial Double Feature from 1965 From his sinister beginnings as one of the two title hitmen who cast an ominous shadow ...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/27/2022 / No comments / anna palk , dana andrews , exploitation , horror , kathleen breck , nazi , science-fiction , sixties
DANA ANDREWS IN 'THE FROZEN DEAD' FEATURING ANNA PALK

Dana Andrews with Anna Palk in THE FROZEN DEAD Year: 1966 Rating: ** Dana Andrews plays a German Nazi scientist in the modern era (1966) wh...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/26/2022 / No comments / british , crime , dark comedy , david warner , heist , neo noir , quirky , seventies , stanley baker , ursula andress
STANLEY BAKER AND DAVID WARNER HEIST IN 'PERFECT FRIDAY'

Title: PERFECT FRIDAY Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 In the stylish and quirky British bank-heist comedy PERFECT FRIDAY the most offbeat aspect i...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/25/2022 / 1 Comment / alex datcher , david naughton , david warner , horror anthology , john carpenter , mark hamill , nineties , peter jason , robert carradine
JOHN CARPENTER AND TOBE HOOPER DIRECTING 'BODY BAGS'

Memorial for David Warner from BODY BAGS Year: 1993 Collective Rating: ***1/2 John Carpenter, director of horror classics HALLOWEEN and THE...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/24/2022 / No comments / adventure , bruce boxleitner , cindy morgan , david warner , disney , eighties , jeff bridges , science fiction , steven lisberger
REVIEW OF THE ORIGINAL 'TRON' JEFF BRIDGES & DAVID WARNER

Year: 1982 Rating: **** Steven Lisberger is the Steve Wozniak of computer cinema, but what he first created on the big screen didn't gi...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/23/2022 / No comments / barry corbin , charles martin smith , dennis hopper , don johnson , heist , jennifer connelly , jerry hardin , neo noir , thriller , virginia madsen , willia sadler
JENNIFER CONNELLY STEALS DENNIS HOPPER'S 'THE HOT SPOT'

Title: THE HOT SPOT AKA ZONA CALIENTE Year: 1990 Rating: ***1/2 You really know that director Dennis Hopper's THE HOT SPOT is a Noir wh...
SMOKING THROUGH A YEAR OF 'FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH'

Title: FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2 In one of the biggest cases of Mistaken Main Character Syndrome , the 1982 Cu...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/22/2022 / No comments / adventure , dana andrews , don dubbins , fifties , island , jane powell , ted decorsia
DANA ANDREWS AND JANE POWELL IN 'ENCHANTED ISLAND'

Title: ENCHANTED ISLAND Year: 1958 Rating: ** In the 1940's, minimalist Dana Andrews seemed like a real person in movies surrounded by a...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/21/2022 / No comments / adventure , dana andrews , fifties , harry brandon , kent smith , linda cristal , melodrama , western
DANA ANDREWS, LINDA CRISTAL AND KENT SMITH IN 'COMANCHE'

Dana Andrews in COMANCHE Year: 1966 Rating: 1/2 Many Westerns, started around this time, the mid-to-late 1950's, will have a white chara...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/19/2022 / No comments / action , cult , dana andrews , drive-in , gene kirkwood , george ives , jeanne crain , laurie mock , mimsy farmer , race , road movie , sixties
DANA ANDREWS AND JEANNE CRAIN IN 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

Title: HOT RODS TO HELL Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Camp Score: **** "The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes," says a jaded and n...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/18/2022 / No comments / dana andrews , ensemble , fifties , film noir or melodrama , fritz lang , howard duff , ida lupino , rhonda fleming , sally forrest , serial killer , thomas mitchell , thriller , vincent price
FRITZ LANG DIRECTING DANA ANDREWS 'WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS'
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 Imagine Orson Welles's Charles Foster Kane inheriting a news outlet instead of a goldmin...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/16/2022 / 1 Comment / david warner , disaster , ensemble , george kennedy , seventies , susan blakely , suspense , sybil danning
SUSAN BLAKELY FLYING HIGH INTO 'THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT 79'

year: 1979 rating: *** A jet plane, like the ones in the AIRPORT films, can’t do much. But unlike those bulky airliners, a hot rod can do p...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/15/2022 / No comments / bert remsen , charles frank , charles siebert , creature , deborah winters , ensemble , howard hesseman , matthew labyorteaux , pat hingle , penelope windust , seventies , spiders , tom atkins
DEBORAH WINTERS IN 'TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO'

Title: TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2 The JAWS craze went beyond hungry fish as the TV-Movie TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY ...