Written by James M. Tate / 6/29/2022 / No comments / counter-culture , david greene , deborah winters , drama , drugs , eli wallach , exploitation , family , julie harris , melodrama , seventies , stephen mchattie
DEBORAH WINTERS & ELI WALLACH IN 'THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR'
Title: THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 David Greene's obscure THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR is out to prove that a parent, in part...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/28/2022 / No comments / buddy , comedy , con man , derren nesbitt , michael caine , michael winner , roger moore , sally kirkland
MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS MICHAEL CAINE IN 'BULLSEYE!'
Title: BULLSEYE Cast: Michael Caine, Roger Moore Year: 1990 Rating: ** By 1990 how the 1970's mighty-British had fallen, three-fold, as ...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/27/2022 / 2 Comments / amy heckerling , brian backer , cult , eighties , interview , jennifer jason leigh , phoebe cates , robert romanus , sex comedy , teen
ROBERT ROMANUS REVISITS 'FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH'
Robert Romanus Interview for FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH by James M. Tate "How lucky is that?" says Robert Romanus, who played M...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/23/2022 / No comments / 2022 , action , adventure , ed harris , jennifer connelly , jon hamm , miles teller , military , mission , new , sequel , tom cruise , val kilmer
TOM CRUISE RETURNS FOR THE POPULAR 'TOP GUN: MAVERICK"
Title: TOP GUN: MAVERICK Year: 2022 Rating: ** Before deliberately channeling the STAR WARS Death Star trench run, TOP GUN: MAVERICK mirror...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/20/2022 / No comments / don siegel , exploitation , harry morgan , hugh o'brian , james stewart , john wayne , lauren bacall , richard boone , ron howard , seventies , western
DON SIEGEL DIRECTS JOHN WAYNE'S FINAL FILM 'THE SHOOTIST'
Title: THE SHOOTIST Stars: John Wayne, Hugh O'Brien Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 Don Siegel's THE SHOOTIST seems perfectly suited as Jo...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/19/2022 / No comments / action , barry dennen , cop , del henney , douglas hickox , england , james booth , john vernon , john wayne , judy geeson , kathryn leigh scott , mel ferrer , richard attenborough , seventies , thriller , twilight time
JOHN WAYNE CRASHES LONDON FOR THE COP FLICK 'BRANNIGAN'
John Wayne in BRANNIGAN Year: 1975 Rating: **** After supposedly passing up DIRTY HARRY, John Wayne made two tough cop films (tough films a...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/16/2022 / No comments / asa maynor , beverly garland , beverly tyler , brian keith , courtroom drama , dick foran , elisha cook jr. , fifties , film noir or melodrama , jack lambert , linda brent , union , wrong man
BRIAN KEITH AND BEVERLY TYLER IN 'CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL'
Title: CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL Shown: Jack Lambert, Beverly Tyler Year: 1957 Rates: ***1/2 One of several late-noirs about Union corruption, fo...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/15/2022 / No comments / cult , donald sutherland , exploitation , hilary mason , horror , julie christie , massimo serato , mystery , nicolas roeg , renato scarpa , seventies
DONALD SUTHERLAND AND JULIE CHRISTIE IN 'DON'T LOOK NOW'
Title: DON'T LOOK NOW Year: 1973 Rating: **** Never let your young daughter play outside, around water... and if she plays with dolls, w...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/14/2022 / No comments / dennis o'keefe , film noir or melodrama , forties , horror , jacques tourneur , jean brooks , margo , thriller , val lewton
JACQUES TOURNEUR DIRECTS 'THE LEOPARD MAN' FOR VAL LEWTON
YEAR OF RELEASE: 1943 Rating: **** An alternative title for THE LEOPARD MAN produced by b-movie guru Val Lewton and directed by his stock s...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/13/2022 / No comments / action , adventure , andy griffith , angie dickinson , biker , janet margolin , lorraine gary , marjoe gortner , midlife crisis , robert burton , robert reed , tv movie , william shatner
WILLIAM SHATNER & ANDY GRIFFITH IN 'PRAY FOR THE WILDCATS'
Title: PRAY FOR THE WILDCATS Year: 1974 Rating: ***1/2 One of many Hollywood morality-tales against corporate competition, which ironically ...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/12/2022 / No comments / action , anthony zerbe , christopher neame , drugs , eighties , everette mcgill , franchise , james bond , revenge , robert davi , robert stroud , spy , timothy dalton
TIMOTHY DALTON SEEKS REVENGE WITHOUT HIS 'LICENSE TO KILL'
Timothy Dalton in LICENSE TO KILL Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 A gritty and severe revenge plot makes Timothy Dalton's second of two James ...
TIMOTHY DALTON PLAYS JAMES BOND IN 'THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS'
Timothy Dalton in THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS Year: 1987 Rating: **** While Timothy Dalton seemed more like another cool spy that James Bond would ...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/11/2022 / No comments / 007 , 2021 , action , christoph waltz , daniel craig , drama , espionage , franchise , james bond , léa seydoux , spy , thriller
DANIEL CRAIG AND LÉA SEYDOUX BOND IN 'NO TIME TO DIE'
Daniel Craig drives Léa Seydoux in NO TIME TO DIE Year: 2021 Rating: *1/2 Turns out, in a manner of speaking, after a failed attempt gave MG...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/09/2022 / No comments / british , comedy , cult , edgar wright , jessica stevenson , julia deakin , mark heap , nick frost , peter serafinowicz , simon pegg , tv series
EDGAR WRIGHT DIRECTS THE BRITISH CULT TV-SERIES 'SPACED'
Nick Frost & Simon Pegg in SPACED Years: 1999-2001 Rating: ****1/2 From 1999 to 2001, England's best kept secret was a two-season si...
EDGAR WRIGHT AND SIMON PEGG COMPLETE 'THE WORLD'S END'
Nicola Cunningham and Simon Pegg reunite for The World's End Year: 2013 Rating: **1/2 British cult-classic director Edgar Wright and his...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/08/2022 / No comments / action , bill nighy , british , cornetto trilogy , dark comedy , dylan moran , edgar wright , kate ashfield , lucy davis , nick frost , nicola cunningham , penelope wilton , peter serafinowicz , simon pegg , zeroes , zombie
EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S CREATION 'SHAUN OF THE DEAD'
Nicola Cunningham as Bloody Maryignites SHAUN OF THE DEAD Year: 2004 Rates: ***** In the first five minutes of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, director E...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/07/2022 / No comments / action , bill nighy , billie whitelaw , buddy , cop , cornetto trilogy , edgar wright , edward woodward , nick frost , rural , satire , simon pegg , stuart wilson , timothy dalton , zeroes
EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S BUDDY COP HOMAGE 'HOT FUZZ'
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ Year: 2007 Rating: ***** After British director Edgar Wright and his leading man an...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/06/2022 / No comments / 2017 , action , ansel elgort , edgar wright , ensemble , genre tarantino , getaway driver , heist , jon hamm , kevin spacey
EDGAR WRIGHT'S TARANTINOESQUE THRILLRIDE 'BABY DRIVER'
Retro Sparse for Baby Driver sans the title YEAR: 2017 BABY DRIVER is part RESERVOIR DOGS in storyline and characters, and nearly all Quen...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/05/2022 / No comments / 2021 , anya taylor-joy , british , counter-culture , diana rigg , drama , edgar wright , horror , new , rita tushingham , terence stamp , thomasin mckenzie , thriller , time travel
EDGAR WRIGHT'S SWINGING FLASHBACK 'LAST NIGHT IN SOHO'
Thomasin McKenzie from LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Year: 2021 Rating: *12 In an otherwise ambitious, uniquely original horror/thriller mashup concern...
EDGAR WRIGHT'S SLACKER ACTION 'SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD'
Year: 2010 Rating: ***1/2 Director: Edgar Wright Famously retro/nostalgia driven SHAUN OF THE DEAD director Edgar Wright goes mainstream wit...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/04/2022 / No comments / barbara bouchet , crime , exploitation , gastone moschin , italian , lionel stander , mario adorf , seventies
GASTON MOSCHIN IN 'CALIBER 9' ORIGINALLY 'MILANO CALIBRO 9'
Title: CAIBER 9 Year: 1972 Rating: **** Gravelly-voiced, physically-imposing Italian actor Gastone Moschin made the greatest villain in THE ...
HARVEY KEITEL AND ROMY SCHNEIDER IN 'DEATH WATCH'
Title: DEATH WATCH aka LA MORT EN DIRECT aka DER GEKAUFTE TOD Year: 1980 Rating: *** An intense firebrand of a crime-genre actor playing aga...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/03/2022 / No comments / action , adam ant , brad davis , cop , eighties , import , jonathan banks , revenge , sharon stone
BRAD DAVIS AND SHARON STONE IN 'COLD STEEL' WITH ADAM ANT
Year: 1987 Rating: ***1/2 Sometimes those unknown flicks that seem straight-to-video or befitting a light night cable channel can actually ...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/02/2022 / No comments / camilla sparv , carole carle , dabney coleman , drama , gene hackman , jim mcmullan , kathleen crowley , michael ritchie , robert redford , sixties , sport
ROBERT REDFORD DELIBERATELY CHILLY FOR 'DOWNHILL RACER'
Robert Redford in DOWNHILL RACER Year: 1969 Rates: ****1/2 A movie has to be about something or someone , and reading any synopsis for DOW...
JOCELYN LANE IN MAURY DEXTER'S BIKER FLICK 'HELL'S BELLES'
Title: HELL'S BELLES Year: 1969 Rating: *** The late-60's biker sub-genre take on the James Stewart Western, WINCHESTER '73, whi...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/01/2022 / No comments / alex rocco , crime , heist , jack kehoe , neo noir , peter boyle , peter yates , richard jordan , robert mitchum , seventies , steven keats
PETER YATES' NEO NOIR THRILLER 'THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE'
Title: THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE Year: 1973 Rating: ****1/2 The miracle of Peter Yates's Crime Thriller THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE is h...
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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 ...