Written by James M. Tate / 8/31/2014 / No comments / 2014 , brendan gleeson , chris o'dowd , m. emmett walsh , quirky
BRENDAN GLEESON IN CALVARY
2014 rating: ***1/2 You can learn about how certain professions are viewed in pop culture by how they’re depicted in movies or TV shows…...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/29/2014 / 1 Comment / 2014 , body count , handheld , horror
REVIEW OF AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
year: 2014 rating: ** Although many credit the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise for the handheld video device, it was THE BLAIR WITCH PRO...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/28/2014 / No comments / 2014 , action , espionage , olga kurylenko , pierce bronsan , thriller
PIERCE BROSNAN IN THE NOVEMBER MAN
year: 2014 rating: **1/2 As the prettiest of former James Bonds, making dapper Roger Moore seem like the rugged Sean Connery in comparis...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/26/2014 / 1 Comment / andrew prine , body count , claudia jennings , exploitation , seventies , sherry alberoni
CAGED MOUSEKETEER: SHERRY ALBERONI DRIVE-IN INTERVIEW
Sherry Alberoni Interview In the 1970's, two low-budget exploitation flicks with a similar premise... a group of lovely young ladi...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/25/2014 / No comments / 2014 , chloë grace moretz , stacy keach , teen
IF I STAY... REVIEWED BY A GROUCHY GROWNUP
year: 2014 rating: ** What a romantic teenage vehicle like IF I STAY has in common with a horror movie is cause and effect… Scary flicks...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/24/2014 / No comments / 2014 , food , helen mirren , india , om puri
REVIEW OF THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY
year: 2014 rating: *** Food porn version of THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, only here a family from India moves to Europe and finds thei...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/22/2014 / 1 Comment / christopher lloyd , franchise , james brolin , joseph gordon-levitt , mickey rourke , neo noir , powers booth , sequel , stacy keach
FRANK MILLER'S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR
year: 2014 rating: *** “I was born at night,” Josh Brolin’s gritty Dwight tells the title femme fatale. “But it wasn’t last night.” Th...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/20/2014 / No comments / 2014 , disaster
REVIEW OF INTO THE STORM
year: 2014 rating: **1/2 If TWISTER and FINAL DESTINATION had a baby with a video camera, its named would be INTO THE STORM... The dev...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/18/2014 / No comments / 2014 , jeff bridges , katie holmes , meryl streep , odeya rush , science-fiction
REVIEW OF THE GIVER STARRING JEFF BRIDGES
2014 rating: **1/2 Think of a movie where a snowy sled represents lost youth… No not that movie… Now there’s another… And this particula...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/17/2014 / No comments / 2014 , comedy , cop , team-up
REVIEW OF LET'S BE COPS
year: 2014 rating: ** There are buddy movies, and there are buddy cop movies… Buddy movies center on two opposing friends who can’t do ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/15/2014 / No comments / 2014 , action , arnold schwarzenegger , ensemble , harrison ford , jason statham , mel gibson , sylvester stallone
SYLVESTER STALLONE HEADS UP THE EXPENDABLES 3
year: 2014 It wasn’t long ago when Jason Statham, Randy Couture and Terry Crews were the young EXPENDABLES… But now it seems, they’re ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/14/2014 / No comments / comedy , eighties , harold ramis , peter o'toole , robin williams
HAROLD RAMIS DIRECTS ROBIN WILLIAMS FOR 'CLUB PARADISE'
1986 rating: *** This post was written after the death of Harold Ramis and Peter O'Toole and reblogged in memory of Robin Williams.....
Written by James M. Tate / 8/13/2014 / No comments / 2014 , colin firth , emma stone , romantic comedy , woody allen
WOODY ALLEN'S MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT
year: 2014 rating: ** Throughout the years, Woody Allen has made mincemeat out of faith and religion, and yet he often treats physics ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/12/2014 / No comments / nineties , robin williams
ROBIN WILLIAMS IN BICENTENNIAL MAN & JUMANJI
year: 1999 rating: *** BICENTENNIAL MAN: The worst thing about this heartwarming comedy starring Robin Williams as a robot serving a ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/11/2014 / 1 Comment / bio , brenda currin , interview , richard brooks , robert blake , scott wilson , sixties , true crime
KILL OR BE KILLED: BRENDA CURRIN DOUBLE FEATURE INTERVIEW
Brenda Currin in GARP What epitomizes a great actor or actress is range, and BRENDA CURRIN brilliantly embodies two polar opposite charac...
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