Written by James M. Tate / 9/29/2015 / No comments / bill allen , eighties , hal needham , interview , jack weston , ray walston , sport , talia shire
BREAKING 'RAD' WITH BMX-BIKE CULT MOVIE ACTOR BILL ALLEN
Interview with RAD actor Bill Allen in promoting his book MY RAD CAREER "The riders not only loved the movie and continue to do so, bu...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/28/2015 / No comments / 2015 , anne hathaway , feel-good , robert deniro
ROBERT DENIRO WORKS IN THE INTERN
Robert DeNiro & Anne Hathaway starring in THE INTERN Being a Living Legend has its pros and cons. The pro is, well, you're a Liv...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/25/2015 / No comments / 2015 , ben kingsley , drama , indie , patricia clarkson
GRANDMA & LEARNING TO DRIVE
year: 2015 GRANDMA: As a lesbian has-been author, Lily Tomlin is a left wing Archie Bunker who, having broken up with a young trophy gi...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/22/2015 / No comments / 2015 , thriller
CAPTIVE & PERFECT GUY
year: 2015 CAPTIVE is the true story about a prisoner named Brian Nichols who escaped from jail and, along the way out the door, killed ...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/21/2015 / 1 Comment / eighties , photobreak , ray walston
RAY'S MR. MIDDLE-FINGER
A from-here-on classic Ray Walston screen capture in-between a delay of reviews These kind of "Where Have I Been Lately and Where A...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/18/2015 / 1 Comment / 2015 , crime , joel edgerton , johnny depp , mob
JOHNNY DEPP IN BLACK MASS
year: 2015 For the many who think Johnny Depp is the end-all of acting, well here's some good news... He begins and finishes BLACK M...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/17/2015 / No comments /
ARCHIVE TRIPLE: YEAR OF THE DRAGON, SCHOOLGIRLS IN CHAINS & THE DEVIL'S HAIRPIN
year: 1987 YEAR OF THE DRAGON: Centers on mob wars in New York's Chinatown; young Asian punks overthrowing the old Chinese bosses an...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/14/2015 / 1 Comment /
WARGAMES FEATURING EDDIE DEEZEN INTERVIEW
year: 1983 This iconic tech thriller hit screens as home computers were becoming fairly commonplace inside particular bedrooms of brainy...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/11/2015 / No comments / 2015 , horror , m. night
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S THE VISIT
year: 2015 It took M. Night Shyamalan to put some pizazz into the completely overused "video camera documenting terror" genre,...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/10/2015 / No comments / adolfo quinones , cannon , christopher mcdonald , cult , dance , eighties , lucinda dickey , michael chambers , musical , sabrina garcia
REVIEWS OF BREAKIN' & BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
Alternate Title Poster YEAR: 1984 BREAKIN' : It makes sense that Break Dancing was a pop culture phenomenon during the early to midd...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/09/2015 / No comments / buddy hackett , dean jones , disney , joe flynn , michele lee , sixties
DEAN JONES IN DISNEY'S THE LOVE BUG
year: 1968 Always a surprise when realizing the first HERBIE isn't named after the speedster Volkswagen with a mind of its own, but ...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/07/2015 / No comments / jack cassidy , martin milner , mystery , peter falk , seventies , steven spielberg , TV
SPIELBERG DIRECTS MULTI-VILLAIN JACK CASSIDY ON COLUMBO
Martin Milner types his last page in COLUMBO: MURDER BY THE BOOK A far better, much more fitting tribute to the late Martin Milner wou...
SOUTHPAW, WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS & MISTRESS AMERICA
year: 2015 SOUTHPAW: Here's an untrue story made to seem very real in a biopic sense, yet mirroring just about all the awesomely fi...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/06/2015 / 2 Comments / comedy , eighties , interview , lee bryant
SLAPPED SILLY: ACTRESS LEE BRYANT RECALLS 'AIRPLANE!'
Lee Bryant with Nicholas Pryor in AIRPLANE! "The reason AIRPLANE worked so well was that everyone played it completely serious,...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/05/2015 / No comments / airplane , comedy , disaster , eighties , ensemble , julie hagerty , peter graves , robert hays , robert stack , spoof
ROBERT HAYS CARRYING 'AIRPLANE!' WITH JULIE HAGERTY
year: 1980 rating: ****1/2 Like any Mel Brooks vehicle and especially those "early, funny" films of Woody Allen, where there...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/04/2015 / No comments / comedy , emma thompson , hike , nick nolte , road movie , robert redford
ROBERT REDFORD & NICK NOLTE TAKE A 'WALK IN THE WOODS'
year: 2015 WoodsyScore: *** There's a classic (though probably unintentional) homage when Robert Redford, as a bored travelogue writ...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/03/2015 / No comments / 2015 , action , england
THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED
year: 2015 It's cozy how Frank Martin and his dad converse, back and forth; like TRANSPORTER was REFUELED from a previous venture an...
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