Written by James M. Tate / 5/31/2015 / No comments / eighties , richard matheson , science-fiction , sixties , steven spielberg
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Written by James M. Tate / 5/30/2015 / 1 Comment / 2015 , bill murray , bradley cooper , cameron crowe , emma stone , rachel mcadams , romantic comedy
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2015 rating: 1/2 The Politically Correct Machine has helped save ALOHA by venting complaints that there aren't enough actual Hawaiia...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/28/2015 / 1 Comment / 2015 , action , disaster , dwayne johnson
ROCK VS EARTHQUAKE IN SAN ANDREAS

2015 rating: *** The Disaster genre, ranging from EARTHQUAKE to TITANIC, relies mainly on two things: characters and... disaster. And th...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/25/2015 / No comments / cannon , clarence williams III , debra sandlund , eighties , francis fisher , isabella rossellini , lawrence tierney , neo noir , norman mailer , ryan o'neal , wings hauser
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Written by James M. Tate / 5/24/2015 / No comments / 2015 , cable
EPISODE FIVE HITS RELATIVE HIGH ON HAPPYISH

E5 Grade: A- After four episodes of overly catering to those who, like Bob Dylan wrote, are at the point where negativity won't pull...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/23/2015 / 1 Comment / brit robertson , disney , george clooney , hugh laurie , science-fiction
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year: 2015 Veiled in sparse, mysterious promotion, TOMORROWLAND is, well, kind of based on the section of Disneyland providing a retro-r...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/21/2015 / 1 Comment / 2015 , haunted house , horror , jane adams , jared harris , remake , sam rockwell
THURSDAY NIGHT REMAKE REVIEW OF 'POLTERGEIST'

2015 rating: ** Well there was a theme park ride based on Steven Spielberg’s JAWS, so why not POLTERGEIST? You sit inside a tram connec...
STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS THE ORIGINAL POLTERGEIST

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Written by James M. Tate / 5/20/2015 / No comments / 2015 , TV
ANOTHER GOODBYE TO DAVID LETTERMAN

David Letterman's final show. He said goodbye after 33-years, which includes both networks... Although for some of us, 11:30 CBS compa...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/18/2015 / 1 Comment / comedy , eighties , jonna lee , judd nelson
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Written by James M. Tate / 5/17/2015 / No comments / 2015 , cable , steve coogan
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Written by James M. Tate / 5/16/2015 / No comments / m. night , matt dillon , suspense , TV
LOOKING INTO THE WAYWARD PINES PILOT EPISODE

2015 Grade: C+ Matt Dillon stars in WAYWARD PINES, and how. There’s little left for any other character since his Secret Service Agent E...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/15/2015 / 1 Comment / 2015 , action , charlize theron , george miller , reboot , tom hardy
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year: 2015 rating: *1/2 George Miller’s original MAD MAX films might have broken too much ground since every other barren landscape with...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/12/2015 / No comments / 2015 , indie
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Written by James M. Tate / 5/11/2015 / 1 Comment / alex datcher , david naughton , david warner , horror anthology , john carpenter , mark hamill , nineties , peter jason , robert carradine
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