cult film freak: July 2013

Written by James M. Tate / 7/29/2013 / No comments / all night , charles martin smith , cindy williams , george lucas , harrison ford , jody carlson , mackenzie phillips , paul lemat , richard dreyfuss , ron howard , seventies

REEXPERIENCING 'AMERICAN GRAFFITI' ON THE BIG SCREEN

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After growing up watching AMERICAN GRAFFITI, and seeing it fifty or more times since childhood, and always on television, there are a few noticeable particularities when viewed in an actual theater on the big screen...<br />
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Producer Francis Ford Coppola’s low budget horror titled DEMENTIA 13, is on the marquee outside Jerry's Cherries Used Car Lot, where Richard Dreyfuss’s Curt Henderson, kidnapped for the night by a gang called The Pharaohs, caused havoc for a local police car by tying a cable to its underbelly: And before that when Curt and his new acquaintances are inside a pinball alley, the Laura Scudder’s brand Potato Chips are in abundance behind the Moose Lodge guys…  <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6FacuYZmqfR3pjz7BWd-Pi6K0ZbNCN50e9JskQWEUKV9dFU08tx21V5GXN8_O994NEhSYQ6XA8iGoUp4aiXPqHOUum43wrmzioYxZUbtmQXAbH1pVvRtION-GUUaN-o5ztF3yH-mwd2krlSUBrJGmkGQQPmcql9aB07kBmk7W414vdGmhuNC5rpWQcw/s1128/Picture%2012.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6FacuYZmqfR3pjz7BWd-Pi6K0ZbNCN50e9JskQWEUKV9dFU08tx21V5GXN8_O994NEhSYQ6XA8iGoUp4aiXPqHOUum43wrmzioYxZUbtmQXAbH1pVvRtION-GUUaN-o5ztF3yH-mwd2krlSUBrJGmkGQQPmcql9aB07kBmk7W414vdGmhuNC5rpWQcw/s16000/Picture%2012.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Racers Harrison Ford & Paul LeMat's first meeting from AMERICAN GRAFFITI</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>And various adult characters: like the poor fella who gets his front bumper bashed, the jerk cop Holstein, the liquor store clerk, the chaperone told to “Kiss A Duck,” really look straight out of the Eisenhower era – okay so JFK was president by this time, but you get the drift…<br />
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The bottom line and the most important thing is that Lucas's AMERICAN GRAFFITI is meant to be viewed the way originally intended, and the bigger the screen the better...   <br />

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If GRAFFITI, with wall-to-wall music playing throughout, blaring in and out of cars while providing a subliminally expository narrative, had the same sound problem, and so, once again, a sublime movie, part of the ongoing Landmark Classic Series, would be ruined. And who wants to hear the irritating noise of popcorn bags being ransacked by hungry audience members, or banal comments spoken when you’re trying hard to listen to what’s really important?<br />

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Laurie Henderson, Curt’s sister, is played by Cindy Williams – while it’s difficult <i>not </i>seeing HAPPY DAYS verses LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY, the two actors are terrific and do a fantastic job despite a somewhat cliché romantic-quibbling storyline that it took co-writers Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz to help Lucas with, since he (in his own opinion) wasn’t good at writing about relationships. <br />

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And then people would know him as Richie Cunningham (HAPPY DAYS was inspired by GRAFFITI but actually spun-off from an episode of LOVE AMERICAN STYLE) until he trailblazed as a successful director later on.<br />

all night, charles martin smith, cindy williams, george lucas, harrison ford, jody carlson, mackenzie phillips, paul lemat, richard dreyfuss, ron howard, seventies

REEXPERIENCING 'AMERICAN GRAFFITI' ON THE BIG SCREEN

year: 1973 cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Paul LeMat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Ron Howard rating: ***** After growing up watching AMERIC...

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

2013, action, computer animated, kristin wiig, paul giamatti, race car, samuel l. jackson, steve carell

TURBO VS DESPICABLE ME 2

year: 2013 cast: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Ken Jeong, Steve Carell, Kristin Wiig rating: *1/2 rating: ** Since Disney, many years ag...

Written by James M. Tate / 7/26/2013 / No comments / 2013 , action , comic book , franchise , hugh jackman , marvel , sequel

THE WOLVERINE

2013, action, comic book, franchise, hugh jackman, marvel, sequel

THE WOLVERINE

year: 2013 cast: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Famke Janssen rating: ** By the time Viper, a beautiful blonde vixen with u...

Written by James M. Tate / 7/21/2013 / 1 Comment / 2013 , action , bruce willis , ensemble , helen mirren , john malkovich , sequel

RED 2

2013, action, bruce willis, ensemble, helen mirren, john malkovich, sequel

RED 2

year: 2013 cast: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Brian Cox rating: *** If someone had the task of counting ...

Written by James M. Tate / 7/19/2013 / No comments / 2013 , horror , lily taylor , ron livingston

THE CONJURING

2013, horror, lily taylor, ron livingston

THE CONJURING

year: 2013 cast: Lily Taylor, Ron Livingston, Patrick Wilson, Hayley McFarland rating: *1/2 Horror movies are fun and exciting, like a r...

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.

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</tbody></table><p>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 amongst the city masses… R.I.P.D. is more of a cross between GHOST and GHOSTBUSTERS...<br />
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We begin with two crooked detectives, one played by Ryan Reynolds as Nick and Kevin Bacon as Hayes – but Nick is good deep down and pays the price for having doubts about stealing gold at a drug raid. Upon being killed right after a cool looking shootout, our anti hero descends upward into… not exactly heaven, hell, or purgatory but the Department where little of the film actually takes place.<br />
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Much of the action occurs on the city streets as Nick endures his stubborn partner, a veteran “lawman” originally from the Wild West named Roy. Jeff Bridges fits the part so well he forgot he's not Rooster Cogburn in TRUE GRIT. With a slurred alum-tongued speech pattern and stock world-weary gruffness, Bridges makes a good Oscar to his Felix-partner Reynolds, who, surprisingly enough, can also play rough n’ tumble pretty well. After all, Nick has more to fight for – his wife’s being visited by his nefarious ex-partner... here’s where GHOST comes in...  and eventually the stolen gold connects to an otherworld plot where, like GHOSTBUSTERS, the undead could paint the town all sorts of bad colors. Some of the funniest parts show Nick and Roy the way humans see them: Roy’s a sexy blonde chick and Nick’s an old Chinese man. At times you’ll want more of the avatars present since Bridges and Reynolds, while likable enough, eventually play second-fiddle to the cartoonish special effects: whenever the dead show themselves in true form they bloat into monstrous Hulk-like beasts.<br />
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Thankfully the movie's so short the flaws don’t really matter, and there’s a pretty decent balance of action and comedy, yet the humor doesn’t rely on one-liners as much as Roy's perpetual reluctance to accept Nick – and vice versa. But the best thing about R.I.P.D. is the direction, flowing like an edgy crime flick on its own right with a jazzy/funky soundtrack and a fun, gritty undertone reminiscent of GET SHORTY and OUT OF SIGHT.</p>

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.

year: 2013 rating: **1/2 While it really does resemble MEN IN BLACK in both style and structure, especially within the busy and bizarre o...

Written by James M. Tate / 7/16/2013 / 1 Comment / list , mary-louise weller

AFTER THE SUNSET: DOOMED CINEMATIC RELATIONSHIPS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy in THE BREAKFAST CLUB</td></tr>
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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 formerly wacko Goth chick.<br />
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“Dude, your girlfriend is really cute and all, but she just stole half the team’s wallets and right now, as I speak, she’s outside screaming like a banshee and making snow angels… in the swimming pool!”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in PRETTY WOMAN</td></tr>
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Here’s a little piece of an argument in the future marriage of Edward and Vivian...<br />
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“You’re a selfish prick – all you think about is money.”<br />
“Oh yeah! Well at least I didn’t bang guys for it!”<br />
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That’s it… The divorce bells are ringing… He’s used her sordid past to win every argument!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher in THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY</td></tr>
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Okay so we’ll see how this marriage pans out in the upcoming sequels, but Han and Leia will be so old it really won’t matter – we would have missed all the arguments between a former smuggler born to lose and a princess born with a silver spoon in her mouth.<br />
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“I can care less about the Kessel run: you need to have a real job and follow the damn rules!”<br />
And after they have children, where will Chewbacca sleep, in the doghouse?<br />
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Oh we just love those May/December relationships… The older gent teaching the young beauty how to be classy…<br />
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But wait until the first big sophisticated party, when Eliza Doolittle-Higgins meets a bevy of young rich men and learns, all by herself, how to flirt and eventually, cheat…<br />
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So long, Henry Higgins! This unfair lady's got more phone numbers than J. Edgar Hoover!<br />
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Heck, even the cutest couple in 80’s cinema can’t go around that whole VISA/Student thing…<br />
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“Well Lane, you can move here to France since you were <i>better off dead</i> here in America… But as a guy who only has experience working burger stands, we recommend you stay in America.”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in GREASE</td></tr>
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When their car finally lands the couple has to answer answers because of this phenomenal occurrence… Automobiles usually don’t just up and fly, especially in the 1950’s…<br />
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Then, after a year, Sandy and Danny move to Australia so he won’t hang out with a bunch of thugs… Only he started his own gang: THE DOWN-UNDERS…<br />
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While Sandy, back to being a prissy missy after slutting-out to win over the brute at the graduation carnival, wishes she married a local boy, perhaps a shepard... Hell, even a crocodile hunter has a steadier job than this duck-tailed (and eventually beer-bellied) bum...<br />
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Well let’s just say Senator Bluto and wife were doing fine until he started eating golf balls at the Country Club…<br />
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This is when the gorgeous and classy Mandy Pepperidge-Blutarsky wound up realizing she could find a man with much better taste…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uma Thurman and Ving Rhames in PULP FICTION</td></tr>
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One night, Mia Wallace turns her to husband, Marcellus, who hasn't been quite himself lately, and says:<br />
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“Alright honey, I came clean about the overdose. But you never did tell me what happened at that pawn shop…”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd in TRADING PLACES</td></tr>
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While Dan and Jamie’s marriage in MY GIRL would probably last since both are boring and content and have a daughter to raise…<br />
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This marriage would fail for the same reason as the PRETTY WOMAN post above…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stephen Collins and Persis Khambatta in STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE</td></tr>
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Decker chose a beautiful bald woman named Ilia instead of a job as second-banana on the Starship Enterprise, but then realizes:<br />
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“Where the hell are we? This isn’t Earth! I want a grilled cheese sandwich! And for God's sake, why doesn’t your hair grow!!!”<br />
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AFTER THE SUNSET: DOOMED CINEMATIC RELATIONSHIPS

Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy in THE BREAKFAST CLUB Newly reformed anti-bullying but still popular jock Andrew brings cleaned-up teenag...

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PACIFIC RIM

year: 2013 cast: Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Idris Elba, Diego Klattenhoff, Ron Perlman rating: ** If you think this is gonna be...

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ADAM SANDLER GROWS UP IN GROWN UPS 2

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ADAM SANDLER GROWS UP IN GROWN UPS 2

year: 2013 cast: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Salma Hayek rating: *** Well the plot's already been establishe...

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

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Susan Blakely looking down on DREAMER Score: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tim Matheson bowls another strike in DREAMER</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim Matheson is Dreamer in DREAMER</td></tr>
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TIM MATHESON IS 'DREAMER' W/ SUSAN BLAKELY & JACK WARDEN

DREAMER REVIEW MOVED HERE Susan Blakely looking down on DREAMER Score: ***1/2 Tim Matheson bowls another strike in DREAMER Tim ...

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'

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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">There could have been more screen time with the newly-formed duo, ready and willing for action. Instead we have dialogue-driven scenes with Lloyd and Jason Robards as the gruff Civil War General turned famously drunken Prez, leading to one last bullet-riddled shootout kicking dust into the dusky skyline, somewhat rushed and anticlimactic compared to a more personally involving fist fight between Cavendish and The Lone Ranger, who, with his Native American counterpart, seemed primed for a sequel (or perhaps a spinoff TV series) that never came to pass.</span><br />
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JIM KELLY BLAXPLOITATION BAGFUL OF KICKIN' MOVIE REVIEWS

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Despite the utter corniness and goofy soundtrack, taking away from solidly choreographed karate scenes, likable characters, and the overall journey, this is a thoroughly watchable romp with a few aspects (other than the hero's name) later borrowed in the "Indiana Jones" franchise: for example, Memmoli's character having an eating competition (like Karen Allen's drinking one in Cairo). Not a great movie. Hell, it might not even be a good one. But as silly entertainment goes, you can do much worse.</div>
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Jim Kelly is a mute Indian scout, jaunting on foot behind the horse-riding black cowboys and sporadically wielding his signature karate moves. And what makes this really work is Williamson's ambiguous nature, adding suspenseful distrust for Brown and creating an edgy team-up in the process. More of a fun ride than a hard one, but a cool flick nonethless.</div>

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JIM KELLY BLAXPLOITATION BAGFUL OF KICKIN' MOVIE REVIEWS

Bloody Bagful of Kickass Reviews of Jim Kelly Cinema from the 1970's JIM KELLY was a cinematic giant... Anyone who's seen the cl...

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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

Written by James M. Tate / 7/26/2013 / No comments / 2013 , action , comic book , franchise , hugh jackman , marvel , sequel

Written by James M. Tate / 7/21/2013 / 1 Comment / 2013 , action , bruce willis , ensemble , helen mirren , john malkovich , sequel

Written by James M. Tate / 7/19/2013 / No comments / 2013 , horror , lily taylor , ron livingston

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

Written by James M. Tate / 7/16/2013 / 1 Comment / list , mary-louise weller

Written by James M. Tate / 7/15/2013 / No comments / 2013 , adam sandler , chris rock , comedy , david spade , ensemble , kevin james , salma hayek

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

Written by James M. Tate / 7/08/2013 / No comments / action , adventure , christopher lloyd , eighties , jason robards , michael horse , remake , western , william fraker

Written by James M. Tate / 7/07/2013 / No comments / comedy , jonah hill , road movie , rose byrne , russell brand , sean combs , tens

Written by James M. Tate / 7/03/2013 / No comments / 2013 , armie hammer , comedy , johnny depp , western

Written by James M. Tate / 7/01/2013 / No comments / blaxploitation , dedication , eighties , fred williamson , jim brown , jim kelly , kung fu , seventies

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