Written by James M. Tate / 6/30/2014 / 1 Comment / 2014 , guy pearce , post-apocalyptic , robert pattison , thriller
GUY PEARCE STARRING IN THE ROVER
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/30/2014
2014 rating: *1/2 It’s been ten years since “The Collapse,” turning the Outback into something resembling the MAD MAX post apocalyptic future, only there's no nuclear fallout and the vehicles are mundane cars you'd see in any public parkin
Written by James M. Tate / 6/29/2014 / No comments / bagful , fifties , pj soles , seventies
ANOTHER ECLECTIC BAGFUL OF ARCHIVE REVIEWS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/29/2014
1980 rating: **1/2 PRIVATE BENJAMIN: Unlike the far superior STRIPES starring Bill Murray and Harold Ramis, which came out a year later, this isn't a military spoof but a character-study involving the army: We're automatically supposed to
Written by James M. Tate / 6/27/2014 / 1 Comment / action , franchise , mark wahlberg , sequel
MARK WAHLBERG IN TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/27/2014
year: 2014 rating: ** In BOOGIE NIGHTS, Mark Wahlberg sings a wonderfully cheesy song titled You Got The Touch, which originated from the 1986 animated TRANSFORMERS MOVIE… This is the type of useless pop culture trivia going through the mi
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Written by James M. Tate / 6/26/2014 / No comments / deborah winters , eli wallach , tribute
A SPECIAL FAREWELL TO THE LEGENDARY ELI WALLACH W/ DEBORAH WINTERS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/26/2014
Eli Wallach Tribute Eli Wallach, who died yesterday, was one of the great character-actors. Although in THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, his particular character, bandito/con-artist Tuco Ramirez, was hardly supporting... Tuco was really the
Written by James M. Tate / 6/24/2014 / No comments / 2014 , biopic , christopher walken , clint eastwood
CLINT EASTWOOD DIRECTS JERSEY BOYS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/24/2014
year: 2014 rating: ** Based on an immensely popular Broadway musical, JERSEY BOYS, about the rise and fall of the pop band The Four Seasons, although directed by Clint Eastwood, strives for good old fashion Martin Scorsese street savvy cha
Written by James M. Tate / 6/23/2014 / No comments / bagful , biker , exploitation , fifties , gary kent , robert dix , seventies , sixties , war
A GRITTY BAGFUL OF ARCHIVE MOVIE REVIEWS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/23/2014
1969 ***1/2 SUPERCOOL: Film Noir/Gumshoe/Private Eye films have a main character wandering from one location to the next in search of something, or someone... What they get along the way are a lot of names, mostly red herrings. Sexy women.
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Written by James M. Tate / 6/21/2014 / No comments / bagful , crime , eighties , exploitation , fifties , film noir or melodrama , gary kent , sixties
A RANDOM BLOODY BAGFUL OF ARCHIVE REVIEWS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/21/2014
year: 1969 rating: *1/2 THE MIGHTY GORGA: A man trying to save his fledgling zoo joins a woman whose father has been lost in the jungle on search of a giant ape named Gorga... A waste of time for those who love the so-bad-it's-good genr
SHAILENE WOODLEY IN THE FAULT OF OUR STARS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/21/2014
year: 2014 rating: ** Teenagers who talk like intellectual college grads is nothing new... Either is having a starstruck book fanatic meet the author of her dreams who turns out being a complete nightmare.... MY GIRL 2 is a perfect example
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Written by James M. Tate / 6/19/2014 / 1 Comment / bagful , nineties , seventies , sixties
AN ECLECTIC BAGFUL OF ARCHIVE SUMMARY REVIEWS
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/19/2014
1956 rating: ***1/2 FORBIDDEN PLANET: The 1950's were full of some pretty bad science fiction movies, so here's a good one... Not only did FORBIDDEN PLANET shape many other of its kind, it was an inspiration for a television show that woul
Written by James M. Tate / 6/18/2014 / 1 Comment / billy dee williams , drama , fritz weaver , kim fields , lance kerwin , stacey nelkin , stella stevens , suzanne crough , tv movie
STACEY NELKIN IN THE TV MOVIE 'CHILDREN OF DIVORCE'
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/18/2014
1980 rating: ***1/2 Stacey Nelkin is a cult actress known as the ingénue from HALLOWEEN 3, the pretty starlet in YELLOWBEARD, and last and certainly least, Tony Danza’s girlfriend in GOING APE… But for some earlier Nelkin cinema you’ll hav
Written by James M. Tate / 6/17/2014 / No comments / barry miller , cynthia rhodes , frank stallone , john travolta , sequel , seventies , sylvester stallone
JOHN TRAVOLTA IN 'SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER' AND 'STAYING ALIVE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/17/2014
John Travolta (facing unseen talent agent Estelle Getty) YEAR: 1983 STAYING ALIVE: Believe it or not, STAYING ALIVE, the sequel to SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, is not a John Travolta film... It belongs entirely to writer/director Sylvester Sta
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