Written by James M. Tate / 12/31/2013 / 3 Comments / all night , anna bjorn , candy clark , charles martin smith , cindy williams , delroy lindo , george lucas , hangout , harrison ford , mackenzie phillips , mary kay place , paul lemat , ron howard , sequel , seventies , war
CRUISING THE PSYCHEDELIC SEQUEL 'MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI'
3 comments / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/31/2013
year: 1979 cast: Paul LeMat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Cindy Williams, Bo Hopkins rating: *** The George Lucas retro classic AMERICAN GRAFFITI showed seven kids cruising a busy Central California boulevard the night of the last da
Written by James M. Tate / 12/30/2013 / 1 Comment / 2013 , comedy , judd apatow , paul rudd , steve carell , vince vaughn , will ferrell
ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/30/2013
year: 2013 rating: **1/2 In an extremely cautious time where Political Correctness dictates the media, from scolding a bearded Reality Show redneck to throwing Steve Martin under the Twitter bus, it’s nice to revisit an era when men were m
Written by James M. Tate / 12/28/2013 / No comments / 2013 , alan arkin , boxing , comedy , jon bernthal , robert deniro , sylvester stallone , team-up
STALLONE VS DE NIRO IN GRUDGE MATCH
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/28/2013
year: 2013 rating: **1/2 There are probably more people curious about seeing ROCKY and RAGING BULL square off than a COP LAND reunion… Either way, with Rocky Balboa and Jake LaMotta in the same movie, they might want something edgy, dramat
Written by James M. Tate / 12/27/2013 / 1 Comment / 2013 , amy adams , joaquin phoenix , quirky , spike jonze
HER BY SPIKE JONZE WITH JOAQUIN PHOENIX
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/27/2013
year: 2013 rating: ** Back when THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode TO AGNES WITH LOVE showed antisocial, lust-burdened geek Wally Cox falling hard for his female-voiced computer, it probably seemed pretty bizarre since office-sized computers weren’
Written by James M. Tate / 12/26/2013 / No comments / 2013 , ben stiller , kristen wiig , sean penn
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY WITH BEN STILLER
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/26/2013
year: 2013 rating: **1/2 The secret of Walter Mitty’s life is that he daydreams a lot: From walking out of snowy photographs as an intrepid mountain climber, to beating up his new "boss" in an elevator, to comic-book-battling the same bear
Written by James M. Tate / 12/25/2013 / 1 Comment / 2013 , biopic , jonah hill , leonardo dicaprio , martin scorsese
MARTIN DIRECTS LEO IN THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/25/2013
year: 2013 rating: *1/2 Motivational Speakers have gotten a bad reputation throughout the years, and perhaps rightly so. They can talk up a storm yet there’s not much behind the curtain... The same can be said of Leonardo DiCaprio’s energe
Written by James M. Tate / 12/23/2013 / No comments / 2013 , biopic , emma thompson , paul giamatti , tom hanks
DISNEY PRESENTS SAVING MR. BANKS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/23/2013
year: 2013 rating: *** If you thought Nurse Ratched was bad, by the end of dealing with P.L. Travers, author of the MARY POPPINS books, Walt Disney would have probably preferred a frontal lobotomy... Although we know the beloved Julie Andr
Written by James M. Tate / 12/21/2013 / 2 Comments / 2013 , amy adams , bradley cooper , christian bale , crime , jennifer lawrence
AMERICAN HUSTLE W/ BRADLEY COOPER & CHRISTIAN BALE
2 comments / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/21/2013
year: 2013 rating: **1/2 Never trust a movie that’s having a better time than you are… When New York con man Irving Rosenfeld meets his lady luck, an English accent faking Sydney Prosser, their business-honeymoon provides more excitement a
Written by James M. Tate / 12/20/2013 / No comments / 2013 , coen brothers , john goodman , music , oscar issac , quirky
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS BY JOEL AND ETHAN COEN
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/20/2013
year: 2013 rating: **** Having reached the end of your rope, at least there’s not enough left for a noose… This could be the theme of the Coen Brother’s latest, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, about an unlucky early-1960's folk singer whose career is
Written by James M. Tate / 12/19/2013 / 1 Comment / eighties , exploitation , helene udy
PICK-UP SUMMER AKA PINBALL SUMMER
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/19/2013
PICK-UP SUMMER REVIEW HAS FLIPPED OVER HERE Helene Udy and a lucky stuffed bear
Written by James M. Tate / 12/16/2013 / No comments / eighties , interview , mariel hemingway , peter o'toole , romantic comedy , vincent spano , virginia madsen
VINCENT SPANO ON CREATOR WITH PETER O'TOOLE
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/16/2013
Peter O'Toole with Vincent Spano in the 1985 science comedy CREATOR You would think by the poster and promotions that CREATOR, a quirky romantic comedy starring the late Peter O’Toole as a neurotic university scientist who yearns to clone
Written by James M. Tate / 12/15/2013 / 1 Comment / peter o'toole
BRIEF HOMAGE TO EPIC ACTOR PETER O'TOOLE
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/15/2013
Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA In many cases a film makes an actor, but that simply cannot happen without an actor making a film stand out, even beyond its own sublime perfection... Peter O'Toole's performance in LAWR
Written by James M. Tate / 12/14/2013 / 1 Comment / 2013 , fantasy , ian mckellen , jrr tolkien , ken stott , martin freeman , richard armitage , sequel , trilogy
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/14/2013
year: 2013 cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly rating: ***1/2 When Bilbo Baggins suddenly loses his ring… The Ring… during a scene where hungry spiders have captured his dwarf friends, there’s the kind of
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