Written by James M. Tate / 10/31/2015 / No comments / body count , donald pleasence , franchise , halloween , horror , jamie lee curtis , john carpenter , pj soles , seventies , slasher
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Written by James M. Tate / 10/28/2015 / No comments / adam roarke , creature , eco-horror , horror , lynn borden , ray milland , sam elliott
SAM ELLIOTT & RAY MILLAND IN 'FROGS' WITH LYNN BORDEN

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Written by James M. Tate / 10/25/2015 / No comments / 2015 , franchise , giancarlo esposito , patricia clarkson , road movie , sequel , teen
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year: 2015 cast: Dylan O'Brien, Patricia Clarkson, Giancarlo Esposito Director: Wes Ball It's difficult for adults to keep up wi...
Written by James M. Tate / 10/24/2015 / No comments / 2015 , barry levinson , bill murray , biopic , bruce willis , comedy
BILL MURRAY IN ROCK THE KASBAH

year: 2015 Unless you go way back to the original SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, after Chevy Chase quit and the new kid took over, and follow Bill...
Written by James M. Tate / 10/23/2015 / No comments / 2015 , horror , michael caine , vin diesel
VIN DIESEL IN THE LAST WITCH HUNTER

year: 2015 cast: Vin Diesel, Michael Caine, Elijah Wood Director: Breck Eisner There's just so much CGI that kills suspense, and mak...
Written by James M. Tate / 10/21/2015 / No comments / 2015 , horror , jack black
JACK BLACK IN GOOSEBUMPS

year: 2015 cast: Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush Director: Rob Letterman Steven Spielberg, whose 1941 rolling rollercoaster is pa...
Written by James M. Tate / 10/19/2015 / No comments / 2015 , cold war , fifties-era , spy , steven spielberg , tom hanks
STEVE SPIELBERG DIRECTS TOM HANKS IN 'BRIDGE OF SPIES'

year: 2015 director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Tom Hanks Cold War thrillers aren't always very thrilling, and mostly rely on mellow...
Written by James M. Tate / 10/17/2015 / No comments / bruce dern , casey kasem , drive-in , exploitation , pat priest , seventies
THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT

1971 camp value: ***1/2 The strangest thing about the THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT... overshadowed by the following year's bla...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER AS STEVE JOBS

year: 2015 director: Danny Boyle What could have been titled, YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO TALK RIGHT NOW? or CAN'T WE DISCUSS THIS LATER ON...
Written by James M. Tate / 10/16/2015 / 1 Comment / 2015 , horror
GUILLERMO DEL TORO DIRECTS CRIMSON PEAK

year: 2015 A classy stab at the Costume Period Piece Horror ala Hammer Films with a poisoned dash of Hitchcock's NOTORIOUS, Guillerm...
Written by James M. Tate / 10/15/2015 / No comments / 2015 , fantasy , garrett hedlund , hugh jackman , prequel , remake , rooney mara
A BELATED REVIEW OF PAN

year: 2015 A sort of PETER POTTER AND THE NEFARIOUS ORPHANAGE, with an impressive big budget fantastical aesthetic and evil nuns who run...
Written by James M. Tate / 10/11/2015 / No comments / anthony perkins , diana scarwid , franchise , henry thomas , horror , jeff fahey , robert loggia , sequel , suspense
SEQUELS OF PSYCHO WITH ANTHONY PERKINS AS NORMAN BATES

Anthony Perkins returns as Norman Bates from 1983-1990 On the new DVD/Blu Ray cover of Alfred Hitchcock's classic suspense thriller ...
Written by James M. Tate / 10/09/2015 / No comments / ben kingsley , biopic , caper , joseph gordon-levitt , robert zemeckis , sport , thriller
ROBERT ZEMECKIS DIRECTS THE WALK

year: 2015 There's a point in THE WALK, based on an autobiography turned into a popular documentary MAN ON WIRE about tight-rope ext...
Written by James M. Tate / 10/08/2015 / No comments / 2015 , disaster , emily watson , jake gyllenhaal , jason clarke , john hawkes , keira knightley , michael kelly , robin wright , sport , thriller
BELATED REVIEW OF EVEREST

year: 2015 Score: **1/2 With an exception of Jason Clarke as Rob Hall, who made climbing up Mount Everest a hardcore vacation trend for ...
Written by James M. Tate / 10/07/2015 / No comments / christina applegate , eighties , exploitation , fritz weaver , gretchen corbett , horror , jaws-clone , john mccurry , nancy priddy , norman lloyd , snake
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year: 1981 rating: ***1/2 Strange when you know a movie by one name, adorning the posters, video cases and disc covers, but another titl...
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