Written by James M. Tate / 4/28/2019 / No comments / aldo ray , counter-culture , drama , drive-in , drug culture , drugs , exploitation , gene kirkwood , laurie mock , melodrama , mimsy farmer , music , sixties
MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL' TO 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

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Written by James M. Tate / 4/24/2019 / No comments / barbara rush , douglas sirk , fifties , jane wyman , melodrama , new age , rock hudson , romance
DOUGLAS SIRK SERVES 'MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION' W/ ROCK HUDSON

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Written by James M. Tate / 4/23/2019 / No comments / action , adventure , animation , arnold stang , cartoon , cult , exploitation , fantasy , kids , science-fiction , sixties
AWESOMELY RADICAL ANIMATION OF 'PINOCCHIO IN OUTER SPACE'

Year of Arrival: 1965 Pinocchio in Outer Space Scores: **** Take away a dingy song during the first half-hour dealing with our main c...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/15/2019 / No comments / action , adventure , charles bronson , clint walker , creature , cult , exploitation , jack warden , jaws-clone , seventies , stuart whitman , thriller , western , will sampson
CHARLES BRONSON JAWS-LIKE WESTERN 'THE WHITE BUFFALO'

Charles Bronson ducks for cover in The White Buffalo YEAR: 1976 A Charles Bronson cult film that, without the hilariously dated and cont...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/14/2019 / No comments / country music , debra winger , eighties , interview , james bridges , james gammon , jessie la rive , john travolta , love triangle , scott glenn , sport
JESSIE LA RIVE MAPES ON PLAYING HERSELF IN 'URBAN COWBOY'

Interview with Urban Cowboy's Jessie La Rive Mapes "Hold my beer, Jessie," Debra Winger's character, Sissy, tells real...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/13/2019 / No comments / action , adventure , buddy , charles grodin , comedy , dustin hoffman , eighties , elaine may , espionage , jack weston , warren beatty
DUSTIN HOFFMAN & WARREN BEATTY FAMOUSLY BOMB IN 'ISHTAR'

Year of Defeat: 1987 In one scene from the famously infamous 1987 mega-flop ISHTAR, a shy and introverted Warren Beatty admits that, i...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/11/2019 / No comments / alec mccowen , alfred hitchcock , anna massey , barbara leigh-hunt , barry foster , body count , dark comedy , exploitation , jon finch , neo noir , seventies , suspense , thriller , wrong man
ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 'FRENZY' WITH JON FINCH & BARRY FOSTER

Opening credit sequence for FRENZY Year: 1972 After a dry-spell with melodramas and big budget espionage films, Alfred Hitchock had an a...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/10/2019 / No comments / debra winger , drama , eighties , james bridges , jessie la rive , john travolta , madolyn smith , melodrama , romance , scott glenn , sport
JOHN TRAVOLTA RIDES 'URBAN COWBOY' VERSES SCOTT GLENN

John Travolta in Urban Cowboy YEAR: 1980 Another soundtrack film with John Travolta after disco and 1950's rock paid off, James Brid...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/07/2019 / No comments / horror , john carpenter , lauren becall , suspense , thriller , tv movie
JOHN CARPENTER DIRECTS TV-MOVIE 'SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME!'

Title Sequence for Someone's Watching Me YEAR: 1978 After John Carpenter hit big with the horror film HALLOWEEN, a made-for-TV movie...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/06/2019 / No comments /
Written by James M. Tate / 4/05/2019 / No comments / daniel stern , dennis christopher , dennis quaid , hart bochner , jackie earle haley , john ashton , paul dooley , peter yates , robyn douglass , small town , sport , teen
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER RIDES 'BREAKING AWAY' W/ DENNIS QUAID

Epitomizes the Haves Haves Not of Breaking Away YEAR: 1979 Feel good movie about teens from the poor side of the tracks but with a cool ...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/03/2019 / No comments / action , blockbuster , comic book , dc comics , eighties , franchise , jack nicholson , kim basinger , michael keaton , prince , robert wuhl , tim burton , tracey walter
TIM BURTON & MICHAEL KEATON ORIGINAL 'BATMAN' REVIEWED

Joker's Commercial Logo from BATMAN Year: 1989 Since the extremely dark Christopher Nolan DARK KNIGHT trilogy, the original Michael ...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/02/2019 / No comments / action , british film noir/melodrama , carolyn jones , cop , crime , edmond o'brien , fifties , john agar , marla english
EDMOND O'BRIEN WEARS A 'SHIELD FOR MURDER' W/ JOHN AGAR

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