Written by James M. Tate / 2/29/2016 / No comments / john huston , leonardo dicaprio , remake , richard harris , tom hardy , western
REVIEWS OF REVENANT & MAN IN THE WILDERNESS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/29/2016
year: 2016 In MAN IN THE WILDERNESS, a 1971 Western, or, for that gritty, no-nonsense, ultra-realistic period, more of an anti-Western... far more rough around the edges compared to the particularly cozy elements of older, quieter, more Jo
Written by James M. Tate / 2/28/2016 / No comments / anna taylor-joy , harvey scrimshaw , horror , witch
BELATED HORROR REVIEW OF THE WITCH
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/28/2016
Harvey Scrimshaw as Caleb tries his best The year 1630 was a long time ago, before iPhones, telephones, or any kind of electricity... But, as we're cinematically reminded more times than even the 1950's Hollywood Blacklist, there were cert
JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT & KRIS KRISTOFFERSON 'VIGILANTE FORCE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/28/2016
Jan-Michael Vincent in Vigilante Force YEAR: 1976 A movie in which low-budget Roger Corman... actually his brother Gene... gets to blow big bullet holes into two of Hollywood's most hated things, at that time, 1976... The first, Vietnam, i
Written by James M. Tate / 2/26/2016 / No comments / danny boyle , leonardo dicaprio , nineties , robert carlyle , tilda swinton
LEO HANGS AT THE BEACH
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/26/2016
After the big famous tragic ship sank into the icy depths, Leo was paid off by wandering Danny Boyle's THE BEACH It was one of his first ventures after hitting his TITANIC movie star A-list sex symbol stride that Leonardo DiCaprio somewhat
Written by James M. Tate / 2/25/2016 / No comments / cop , crime , eighties , exploitation , fred berry , gary swanson , season hubley , vice , wings hauser
WINGS HAUSER & SEASON HUBLEY IN VICE SQUAD
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/25/2016
"You can run behind their truck, but you never, ever, ever run behind mine, you got that, Stubbs?" You've heard it before. "That person really made the movie." Or "really steals it." Well in the case of VICE SQUAD, Wings Hauser as a nightm
Written by James M. Tate / 2/24/2016 / No comments / action , bo hopkins , crime , exploitation , gangster , hit man , jason miller , john hillerman , linda haynes , neo noir , richard mulligan , seventies
JASON MILLER POSSESSES 'THE NICKEL RIDE' WITH LINDA HAYNES
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/24/2016
year: 1974 cast: Jason Miller, John Hillerman, Linda Haynes, Bo Hopkins In THE NICKEL RIDE, wherein a convoluted set-up is experienced through random wandering conversations with blue collar workers, building managers, street dwellers, and
Written by James M. Tate / 2/23/2016 / No comments / eighties , lawrence olivier , neil diamond , sully boyer
NEIL DIAMOND LOUNGES AROUND IN THE JAZZ SINGER
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/23/2016
year: 1980 To say the man some consider the greatest actor of all time, Lawrence Olivier, is a worse actor than crooner Neil Diamond is a matter of specifics… In this particular case, THE JAZZ SINGER, a maligned 1980 remake of the Al Jolso
ROD TAYLOR AND YVETTE MIMIEUX IN 'THE TIME MACHINE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/23/2016
Yvette Mimieux & Rod Taylor in George Pal's 1960 classic science-fiction cult phenom THE TIME MACHINE It's too bad so much of the energy is built on obscuring the twist ending, and the middle-ground to the classic George Pal version of the
Written by James M. Tate / 2/20/2016 / No comments / buddy , burt lancaster , charles durning , comedy , crime , dana carvey , eighties , eli wallach , kirk douglas , team-up
BURT LANCASTER & KIRK DOUGLAS STARRING IN 'TOUGH GUYS'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/20/2016
Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas fresh outta prison in TOUGH GUYS Year: 1986 With loads of "what were we thinking" hindsight, you'd think TOUGH GUYS was made decades after the glossy decade it parodies: But the heist/comedy starring old tim
Written by James M. Tate / 2/19/2016 / No comments / john c. reilly , sacha baron cohen , will ferrell , zeroes
TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/19/2016
year: 2006 cast: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Amy Adams, Leslie Bibb You can say that TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY is one of Will Ferrell's best movies. Yet that's only if you're not looking to wet your p
THE LADY IN THE VAN
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/19/2016
Here at Cult Film Freak Cinema, we review just about everything in theaters, and this is proof Maggie Smith has been around the block, and it shows. Not in an altogether negative way. She's looked ancient for quite a while now; and there's
Written by James M. Tate / 2/17/2016 / No comments / adam baldwin , joss whedon , nathan fillion , science-fiction , zeroes
THRUSTING INTO FIREFLY
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/17/2016
Review/Writeup of the first episode of the Joss Whedon cult adored science-fiction television series FIREFLY By now everyone in the know has seen FIREFLY and this post is just to center on the pilot episode, watched for the first time by a
Written by James M. Tate / 2/16/2016 / No comments / 2016 , bob odenkirk , cable , jonathan banks , neo noir
RETURN OF BETTER CALL SAUL
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/16/2016
The Return of the BREAKING BAD spinoff BETTER CALL SAUL starring Bob Odenkirk Last season, we covered and rated almost every episode of BETTER CALL SAUL, a spinoff from THE GODFATHER of television cable series, BREAKING BAD, wherein the lo
Written by James M. Tate / 2/15/2016 / No comments / biography , eighties , politics , sean penn , spy , timothy hutton
THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/15/2016
FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN turns Timothy Hutton & Sean Penn's spoiled traitors into demi gods... but good It takes Hollywood to make two spies ragged, endearing heroes: one a drug dealer and one who has an entire second book (mentioned later)
Written by James M. Tate / 2/14/2016 / No comments / andrew dice clay , andrew mccarthy , annie potts , brat pack , eighties , harry dean stanton , james spader , john hughes , jon cryer , molly ringwald
PRETTY IN PINK BY JOHN HUGHES
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/14/2016
Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy & Jon Cryer headline PRETTY IN PINK written by John Hughes Like GREMINS or BACK TO THE FUTURE is to Steven Spielberg, here's a popular John Hughes movie, one of many during the 1980s, wherein he's the Execut
Written by James M. Tate / 2/12/2016 / No comments / 2016 , ben stiller , owen wilson , sequel
REVIEW OF ZOOLANDER 2
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/12/2016
Review of ZOOLANDER 2 starring Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson & Penélope Cruz & Will Ferrell What should be called BOOLANDER is nothing but (a movie not even worth reviewing. While the original had moments, it was an overrated mess cleaned up b
RYAN REYNOLDS IN DEADPOOL
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/12/2016
Ryan Reynolds as the fast-talking DEADPOOL doing an imitation of the 1970's hey-day magazine pic of Burt Reynolds Hollywood stars often fail up. After the disastrously boring DAREDEVIL starring Ben Affleck, and a comeback as a director/act
Written by James M. Tate / 2/11/2016 / No comments / action , adam baldwin , body count , ed o'neil , eighties , john terry , kevyn major howard , kieron jecchinis , matthew modine , rolling stones , stanley kubrick , vietnam , war
STRATEGIC SIDE-CHARACTERS OF KUBRICK'S 'FULL METAL JACKET'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 2/11/2016
The Expendable Unsung Heroes of FULL METAL JACKET The irony of the helmet sharing BORN TO KILL with a peace symbol represents more than Pvt. Joker’s theory behind donning such a blatant contradiction in the middle of a raging war… Peace He
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