Written by James M. Tate / 10/29/2014 / No comments / eighties , emilio estevez , horror , j.c. quinn , laura harrington , pat hingle , stephen king , suspense
CRANKING THROUGH STEPHEN KING'S MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/29/2014
year: 1986 rating: *** WEEK OF THE COMET would be a fitting alternative title for MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE, Stephen King’s adaptation of his short story TRUCKS where a slime green meteor shower puts the Earth in an eight-day mechanical bedlam str
Written by James M. Tate / 10/25/2014 / No comments / 2014 , horror
HALLOWEEN HORROR REVIEW OF OUIJA
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/25/2014
year: 2014 rating: ** PG-13 horror can be lackluster for two reasons: Adult audiences yearning to be scared silly have to put up with an intentionally watered-down theatrical experience, and younger folk anticipating a truly frightening wo
Written by James M. Tate / 10/23/2014 / No comments / 2014 , action , genre tarantino , keanu reeves
KEANU REEVES IN JOHN WICK
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/23/2014
year: 2014 rating: *** THE DROP aside, most crime flicks where an adorable puppy's introduced usually means it won’t live to be a dog… Or even a slightly older puppy… Which is extremely important since John Wick, played by a slowburn yet u
Written by James M. Tate / 10/22/2014 / No comments / 2014 , adventure , animated , channing tatum , chick flick , james marsden , kids , michelle monaghan , romance
THE BEST OF ME & THE BOOK OF LIFE
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/22/2014
year: 2014 rating: * THE BEST OF ME: In a chick flick, it's no surprise when the good rich girl falls for the bad boy... only this boy isn’t bad but he's poor – and dull as a box of hammers… That’s the backstory, which jumps to and from wh
Written by James M. Tate / 10/20/2014 / No comments / 2014 , bill murray
BILL MURRAY IN ST. VINCENT
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/20/2014
2014 rating: *1/2 The most intriguing and humorous aspect of any cinematic “unlikely friendship" is the amount of time taken for two polar opposites to warm up to each other. The longer things are cold, the funnier. But in ST. VINCENT, the
Written by James M. Tate / 10/17/2014 / No comments / 2014 , brad pitt , ensemble , jon bernthal , logan lerman , shia labeouf , war , world war II
REVIEW OF FURY STARRING BRAD PITT
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/17/2014
year: 2014 rating: *** “He was one of those guys that had that weird light around him... You just knew he wasn't going to get so much as a scratch here.” That was from APOCALYPSE NOW about Robert Duvall’s gung-ho Colonel, and not a quote a
Written by James M. Tate / 10/14/2014 / 1 Comment /
CONNERY BOND SEVEN: NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
1 comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/14/2014
year: 1983 rating: **1/2 "I do hope we have some gratuitous sex and violence," says the new Q to the old Bond in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN, Sean Connery's return to the franchise during the peak of the successful Roger Moore era. But let's cen
Written by James M. Tate / 10/13/2014 / No comments / 2014 , disney , jennifer garner , steve carell , teen
GROUCHY GROWN UP REVIEW OF ALEXANDER AND... THE VERY BAD DAY
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/13/2014
year: 2014 rating: ** It couldn’t have happened quickly enough that ALEXANDER traded off his TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY in the magical fashion of FREAKY FRIDAY and LIAR LIAR, by wishing his family would have an equally awful
Written by James M. Tate / 10/12/2014 / No comments / 2014 , jeremy renner , politics , thriller
JEREMY RENNER IN KILL THE MESSENGER
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/12/2014
2014 rating: ** Jeremy Renner is the kind of actor who takes his job seriously, playing each character with gusto. And in the role of real life reporter Gary Webb, he’s downright shot out of a cannon. In fact you’d think he was a bulletpro
Written by James M. Tate / 10/11/2014 / No comments / 2014 , exploitation , indie , indie corner , parody
INDIE CORNER: A SHOCKED GLIMPSE INTO T.S. SLAUGHTER'S 'THE GAYS'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/11/2014
Click For THE GAYS It’s a blanket term, “The Gays,” referring to an entire unseen lifestyle, usually spoken by an uptight straight person who thinks they’re far away from such people… Used in a sentence, “What are ‘The Gays’ protesting now
ROBERT DOWNEY JR & ROBERT DUVALL IN THE JUDGE
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/11/2014
2014 rating: **1/2 The title character in THE JUDGE is accused of murder – he’s also dying of cancer, just lost his wife, has memory lapses, killed a man, and may go to prison… And this is considered a “comedy/drama” for one reason… Robert
Written by James M. Tate / 10/10/2014 / No comments / 2014 , prequel
REVIEW OF DRACULA UNTOLD
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/10/2014
2014 rating: ** If Darth Vader turned into the most sinister thug in the galaxy after his wife died in a dream, having Dracula, whose real name is (and really was) Vlad the Impalor, morphing into a vampire to save his wife and child, makes
Written by James M. Tate / 10/07/2014 / No comments / body count , brion james , eighties , fred ward , keith carradine , les lannom , military , powers boothe , suspense , walter hill
BODY COUNT NIGHTMARE OF WALTER HILL'S SOUTHERN COMFORT
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/07/2014
1981 rating: ****1/2 According to the bonus feature documentary from the Shout Factory Blu-Ray/DVD combo, the creators and actors of SOUTHERN COMFORT have different ideas on the movie’s significance and origin… RIP Powers Boothe 5/15/17 Wh
Written by James M. Tate / 10/06/2014 / No comments / 2014 , adam sandler , drama , ensemble , nicolas cage , reese witherspoon , thriller
JOURNEY THROUGH THE INTERNET, AFRICA & THE RAPTURE
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/06/2014
year: 2014 rating: **1/2 In a weekend dominated by a missing girl and a demonic doll, here's a three-pack including THE GOOD LIE, LEFT BEHIND and beginning with... MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN: Seeing the Internet in a movie is like hearing a toi
Written by James M. Tate / 10/04/2014 / No comments / 2014 , franchise , horror , prequel
REVIEW OF ANNABELLE
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/04/2014
year: 2014 rating: ** Two particular things don’t make sense: Calling a girl you think is ugly a dog, when dogs are usually cute… And referring to a precious child as a little doll, when dolls can be horrendously frightening… Especially in
Written by James M. Tate / 10/03/2014 / No comments / 2014 , ben affleck , david fincher , mystery , neo noir , thriller
DAVID FINCHER DIRECTS BEN AFFLECK IN GONE GIRL
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/03/2014
2014 rating: ***1/2 Practically critic-proof, a film designed so as not to be spoiled, David Fincher’s moody and atmospheric GONE GIRL begins as a missing person mystery, veers into an Accused Man Film Noir and eventually detours… or, depe
Written by James M. Tate / 10/02/2014 / No comments / 2014 , ben kingsley , children , stop motion
GROUCHY GROWNUP REVIEW OF THE BOXTROLLS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 10/02/2014
year: 2014 rating: * Stop-motion animation is a beautiful process. The story unfolding as if the characters and backdrops are being created before your very eyes, it’s a method that has become practically obsolete by computer animation – a
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