Written by James M. Tate / 5/31/2015 / No comments / eighties , richard matheson , science-fiction , sixties , steven spielberg
CHANNELLING LITTLE GIRL LOST TWILIGHT ZONE INTO POLTERGEIST
Writing on the wall It's sheer luc k when your daughter vanishes, her f rightened voice speaking somewhere behind the walls of t...
REVIEW OF THE SIXTH EPISODE OF HAPPYISH
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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
REVIEW OF CAMERON CROWE'S ALOHA
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 / 5/24/2015 / 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
WEEKEND REVIEW OF TOMORROWLAND
2015 rates: * Veiled in sparse, mysterious promotion, TOMORROWLAND is, well, kind of based on the section of Disneyland providing a retr...
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
year: 1982 rating: **** Although executive produced and not technically directed by Steven Spielberg, who was busy with E.T. THE EXTRA T...
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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1984 rating: ***1/2 A year before THE BREAKFAST CLUB made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting style into a focused study of...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/17/2015 / No comments / 2015 , cable , steve coogan
HAPPYISH EPISODE 4 SHARES A COKE WITH MAD MEN
E4 Grade: D The corny yet catchy commercial jingle that some of us grew up on, "I'd like to buy the world a Coke," where a...
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
GEORGE MILLER DIRECTS MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
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
MAKING TRAGIC CAMPY NOIR SENSE OF TOMMY WISEAU'S THE ROOM
2003 Grade: F Camp Value: A Gotta give credit to writer/director/actor/producer Tommy Wiseau. He paid tribute to Orson Welles from a d...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/10/2015 / No comments / 2015 , cable , steve coogan
GLIMPSE INTO THE THIRD EPISODE OF HAPPYISH
E3 Grade: C Not long ago, a short little movie on You Tube got a lot of religious people miffed, and a few important Americans had to ap...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/09/2015 / No comments / 2015 , comedy , reese witherspoon , road movie , team-up
REESE WITHERSPOON IN HOT PURSUIT
2015 rating: * Seeming like Holly Hunter from RAISING ARIZONA combined with Sally Field had she tried out her own Burt Reynolds style ro...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/08/2015 / No comments / 2015 , buddy , comedy , jack black , james marsden
JACK BLACK AND JAMES MARSDEN IN THE D TRAIN
2015 rating: *1/2 Scenes in the trailer (and the poster image), where Jack Black’s former high school loser parties down with James Mars...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/06/2015 / No comments / 2015 , jakob salvati , war
JAKOB SALVATI STARRING IN LITTLE BOY
2015 rating: **** An instant backlash against LITTLE BOY occurred for being religious propaganda, yet there’s loads of mysticism while t...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/04/2015 / No comments / adventure , eighties , james hong , john carpenter , kim cattrall , kurt russell
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year: 1986 As grungy truck driver Jack Burton, director John Carpenter’s stock action star Kurt Russell is a Snake Plissken for the GOON...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/03/2015 / No comments / 2015 , cable , steve coogan
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Written by James M. Tate / 5/02/2015 / No comments / 2015 , blake lively , harrison ford , romance , science-fiction
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2015 rating: **1/2 In most cases, if a man found out his one true love, the love of his life, his beloved soul-mate would remain, as he ...
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