Written by James M. Tate / 6/30/2016 / No comments / 2016 , action , christoph waltz , franchise , margot robie , samuel l. jackson
TARZAN BEGINS AGAIN IN THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
Sam Jackson watches Tarzan run Edgar Rice Burroughs' second TARZAN novel was THE RETURN OF TARZAN, and while this movie, THE LEGEND ...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/28/2016 / No comments / fifties , film noir or melodrama , irvin kershner , jazz-score , jonathan haze , steven marlo
IRVIN KERSHNER DIRECTS 'STAKEOUT ON DOPE STREET'
Year: 1958 Cast: Steven Marlo, Jonathan Haze By the time George Lucas went to USC Film School, one of his favorite teachers, Irvin Kersh...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/26/2016 / No comments / art evans , clu gulager , david bowie , don siegel , eighties , jeff goldblum , john landis , michelle pfeiffer , neo noir , rick baker
STAYING AWAKE FOR THE JOHN LANDIS NOIR INTO THE NIGHT
Clu Gulager's take on things Ed Okin, our hero/pawn in the John Landis Neo Noir INTO THE NIGHT, works as an Aeronautical Engineer, w...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/23/2016 / No comments / burt lancaster , john frankenheimer , prison , sixties , telly savalas
BURT LANCASTER IN BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ
Twilight Time Blu Ray YEAR: 1962 It's impossible to know the truth, the real truth, about something, or in this case, someone who ga...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/21/2016 / No comments / alfred hitchcock , film noir , forties , priscilla lane , robert cummings , suspense
PRISCILLA LANE DOUBLE & LAWRENCE TIERNEY CINEMA
Title: SABOTEUR Year: 1942 In keeping with our LAWRENCE TIERNEY CINEMA posts, covering anything either starring or featuring the gruff N...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/18/2016 / No comments / cop , dragnet , drug culture , film noir , harry morgan , heather menzies , jack webb , sixties
JACK WEBB IN DRAGNET 1967: EISENHOWER ON ACID
"In my job, I meet a lot of losers. I carry a badge." Joe Friday, Dragnet This continuation of the famous 1950's Film Noir...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/16/2016 / No comments / barbara payton , fifties , film noir or melodrama , gangster , gordon douglas , helena carter , james cagney , luther adler , william frawley
JAMES CAGNEY BRUTAL FILM NOIR OF 'KISS TOMMORROW GOODBYE'
Title: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Year: 1950 Rates: ***1/2 After the peak of James Cagney crime cinema, wildly popular during the programmers of...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/15/2016 / No comments / 2016 , franchise , hugh jackman , jennifer lawrence
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE FEATURING HUGH JACKMAN
THE X-MEN MUPPET BABY FILMS SUSTAIN BREEZILY Year: 2016 The vessel has gone full circle. Not only do we begin with a mutant in a public ...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/14/2016 / No comments / photobreak
JUXTAPOSED CINEMA: NEEDLE IN THE GRADUATE
Twilight Time Blu Ray A little of what we call a PHOTOBREAK from the routine of reviews, interviews and essays, here are two pictu...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/13/2016 / No comments / cameron mitchell , fifties , film noir , mexico , richard widmark , susan hayward , treasure , western
COOPER & WIDMARK RIDE IN GARDEN OF EVIL
Gorgeous wideshot of Hayward and Cooper YEAR: 1954 A year before GARDEN OF EVIL, an adventurous Cowboy Film Noir taking place in Mexic...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/12/2016 / No comments / fifties , james cagney , list , seventies , thirties
CFF 2016-2017 FAVORITE MOVIE LIST
LIST FOR THIS YEAR First thing to know is this FAVORITE MOVIE LIST isn't the same as BEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME or even FAVORITE MOV...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/11/2016 / No comments / biopic , david carradine , hal ashby , seventies
DAVID CARRADINE PLAYS WOODY GUTHRIE IN 'BOUND FOR GLORY'
Beautiful Twilight Time Blu Ray for BOUND Movie Year: 1976 John Carradine, father of David, Keith and Robert, is best known for co-starr...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/09/2016 / No comments / fifties , jazz score , scott brady , TV , western
SCOTT BRADY JAZZES WILD WEST TV ON SHOTGUN SLADE
Year: 1950 Show Title: SHOTGUN SLADE Starring: Scott Brady Having been visiting several obscure TV Westerns, including one that's a ...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/05/2016 / No comments / body count , dan shor , dey young , diana scarwid , eighties , horror , louise fletcher , marc mcclure , michael murphy , paul lemat , science-fiction , scott brady , slasher
STRANGE ON STRANGE INVADERS & BEHAVIOR DOUBLE FEATURE
A Look at Strange Invaders & Dead Kids YEARS: 1981-1983 "Do you feel like going to the gym or working out?" young SUPERMAN...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/04/2016 / No comments / bill murray , dan aykroyd , eighties
A SEMI NOSTALGIC REVIEW OF GHOSTBUSTERS II
Working On The Old Familiar Sign "One day," says Ernie Hudson's fourth Ghostbuster, Winston, in GHOSTBUSTERS 2, "thes...
THE TIMELESS IMPRESSION OF GHOSTBUSTERS
THE TIMELESS ORIGINAL CIRCA 1984 John Winger, Bill Murray’s lovable loser in the boot camp comedy STRIPES, the second of three collabora...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/02/2016 / No comments / adventure , ernest borgnine , keith carradine , lee marvin , robert aldrich , seventies , sid haig
MARVIN VS BORGNINE IN 'EMPEROR OF THE NORTH'
Lee Marvin & Robert Carradine in this Robert Alrich action flick Arguably, director Robert Aldrich turned in his best work over a de...
CHEVY CHASE AND MADOLYN SMITH STAR IN 'FUNNY FARM'
The Dog gets a bone in George Roy Hill's Swan Song FUNNY FARM At first viewing, FUNNY FARM, on the heels of Chevy Chase's best p...
REVIEW OF ME BEFORE YOU STARRING EMILIA CLARKE
Year: 2016 A hybrid of EDUCATING RITA, in which a short, spunky, awkward working class girl perks up the life of a stuffy, brainy and co...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/01/2016 / No comments / adaptation , beau bridges , gothic , horror , james mason , religion , robert preston , seventies , suspense , thriller
CHARACTER-DRIVEN TRINITY OF THE 1972 THRILLER 'CHILD'S PLAY'
Beau Bridges faces the boys of Child's Play YEAR: 1972 In CHILD'S PLAY, from way back in 1972 and not involving a red-haired ser...
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Robyn Hilton enters into an eclectic exploitation comedy career in Wonder Women circa 1973 As mentioned a few posts ago, ROBYN HILTON, b...
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year: 1978 cast: Allen Garfield, Leif Garrett, Kathleen Lloyd, Tony Alva, Pam Kenneally rating: ***1/2 Although promoted as a Leif Garr...
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Kari Michaelsen in Saturday the 14th year: 1982 In LOVE AT FIRST BITE, a popular comedy that took the vampire genre by satire, Richard ...
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Cornelia Sharpe in BUSTING Year: 1974 Rating: **** Starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as determined vice cops BUSTING hookers, makin...
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Mary-Louise Weller in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE ANIMAL HOUSE, directed by John Landis and produced by Ivan Reitman, stars John Be...
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Kerri Green and John Candy in SUMMER RENTAL Year: 1985 John Candy, in his first leading role, plays a burnt-out air traffic controller ...
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Robyn Hilton in Video Vixens the same year as Blazing Saddles: 1974 The Anthology of Comedic Parodies, already done in several Woody All...
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CADDDYSHACK is best known for the iconic leading actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase, Ted Knight, and Bill Murray, but originally the ...
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Elizabeth James and Tom Laughlin on equal ground YEAR: 1967 THE BORN LOSERS wasn't supposed to happen but thank God it did since BIL...
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