Written by James M. Tate / 7/29/2013 / No comments / all night , charles martin smith , cindy williams , george lucas , hangout , harrison ford , jody carlson , mackenzie phillips , paul lemat , richard dreyfuss , ron howard , seventies
REEXPERIENCING 'AMERICAN GRAFFITI' ON THE BIG SCREEN
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/29/2013
year: 1973 cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Paul LeMat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Ron Howard rating: ***** After growing up watching AMERICAN GRAFFITI, and seeing it fifty or more times since childhood, and always on television, there are a
Written by James M. Tate / 7/28/2013 / No comments / 2013 , action , computer animated , kristin wiig , paul giamatti , race car , samuel l. jackson , steve carell
TURBO VS DESPICABLE ME 2
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/28/2013
year: 2013 cast: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Ken Jeong, Steve Carell, Kristin Wiig rating: *1/2 rating: ** Since Disney, many years ago, provided a human-like Volkswagen Bug racing in Monte Carlo, perhaps the competing DreamWorks could h
Written by James M. Tate / 7/26/2013 / No comments / 2013 , action , comic book , franchise , hugh jackman , marvel , sequel
THE WOLVERINE
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/26/2013
year: 2013 cast: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Famke Janssen rating: ** By the time Viper, a beautiful blonde vixen with unearthly powers, unleashes a forked tongue, spitting colorful venom on her targets, the entire purpose
Written by James M. Tate / 7/21/2013 / 1 Comment / 2013 , action , bruce willis , ensemble , helen mirren , john malkovich , sequel
RED 2
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/21/2013
year: 2013 cast: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Brian Cox rating: *** If someone had the task of counting all the bullets fired in RED 2, the location-hopping follow-up to the DC COMICS graphic novel turned ve
Written by James M. Tate / 7/19/2013 / No comments / 2013 , horror , lily taylor , ron livingston
THE CONJURING
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/19/2013
year: 2013 cast: Lily Taylor, Ron Livingston, Patrick Wilson, Hayley McFarland rating: *1/2 Horror movies are fun and exciting, like a rollercoaster. They attract audiences who, gathered together like masses at a carnival, are expecting so
Written by James M. Tate / 7/18/2013 / 1 Comment / action , comedy , cop , james hong , jeff bridges , kevin bacon , mary-louise parker , ryan reynolds , science-fiction , team-up
RYAN REYNOLDS & JEFF BRIDGES IN R.I.P.D.
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/18/2013
year: 2013 rating: **1/2 While it really does resemble MEN IN BLACK in both style and structure, especially within the busy and bizarre offices of The Rest in Peace Department… home base for dead cops to find and arrest the undead lurking
Written by James M. Tate / 7/16/2013 / 1 Comment / list , mary-louise weller
AFTER THE SUNSET: DOOMED CINEMATIC RELATIONSHIPS
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/16/2013
Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy in THE BREAKFAST CLUB Newly reformed anti-bullying but still popular jock Andrew brings cleaned-up teenage bag lady Allison to to a party. She’s dressed to the nines but something is (still) off with this for
PACIFIC RIM
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/16/2013
year: 2013 cast: Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Idris Elba, Diego Klattenhoff, Ron Perlman rating: ** If you think this is gonna be just like TRANSFORMERS, since the giant robots resemble the popular shape-shifting toy turned Michael Bay f
Written by James M. Tate / 7/15/2013 / No comments / 2013 , adam sandler , chris rock , comedy , david spade , ensemble , kevin james , salma hayek
ADAM SANDLER GROWS UP IN GROWN UPS 2
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/15/2013
year: 2013 cast: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Salma Hayek rating: *** Well the plot's already been established when successful Hollywood guy Lenny, played by Adam Sandler, revisited his hometown, a woodsy hole-in-the
Written by James M. Tate / 7/10/2013 / No comments / import , jack warden , matt clark , mews small , richard b. schull , seventies , sport , susan blakely , tim matheson
TIM MATHESON IS 'DREAMER' W/ SUSAN BLAKELY & JACK WARDEN
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/10/2013
DREAMER REVIEW MOVED HERE Susan Blakely looking down on DREAMER Score: ***1/2 Tim Matheson bowls another strike in DREAMER Tim Matheson is Dreamer in DREAMER
Written by James M. Tate / 7/08/2013 / No comments / action , adventure , christopher lloyd , eighties , jason robards , michael horse , remake , western , william fraker
KLINTON SPILSBURY IN 'THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/08/2013
year: 1981 cast: Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark, Jason Robards rating: ***It’s the week of THE LONE RANGER reboot, in which Johnny Depp plays a quirky Tonto to Armie Hammer’s annoying doofus John Reid, who r
Written by James M. Tate / 7/07/2013 / No comments / comedy , jonah hill , road movie , rose byrne , russell brand , sean combs , tens
GET HIM TO THE GREEK
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/07/2013
year: 2010 cast: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Sean Combs, Rose Byrne, Lars Urlich, Colm Meaney rating: **1/2 “Your mouth is smiling,” Russell Brand’s has-been rock star Aldous Snow tells Jonah Hill’s put-upon record company gopher Aaron Gree
Written by James M. Tate / 7/03/2013 / No comments / 2013 , armie hammer , comedy , johnny depp , western
JOHNNY DEPP & ARMIE HAMMER IN THE LONE RANGER
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/03/2013
year: 2013 cast: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson, Rebecca Reid rating: ** Anyone familiar with the Comedy/Western LITTLE BIG MAN will recognize the first ten minutes of THE LONE RANGER... The main character, noti
Written by James M. Tate / 7/01/2013 / No comments / blaxploitation , dedication , eighties , fred williamson , jim brown , jim kelly , kung fu , seventies
JIM KELLY BLAXPLOITATION BAGFUL OF KICKIN' MOVIE REVIEWS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 7/01/2013
Bloody Bagful of Kickass Reviews of Jim Kelly Cinema from the 1970'sJIM KELLY was a cinematic giant... Anyone who's seen the classic Bruce Lee vehicle ENTER THE DRAGON knows that truth. He not only holds his own in the kick ass department
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