Written by James M. Tate / 4/28/2019 / No comments / aldo ray , counter-culture , drama , drive-in , drug culture , drugs , exploitation , gene kirkwood , laurie mock , melodrama , mimsy farmer , music , pat renella , sixties
MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL' TO 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'
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from Hot Rods from Hell review of Riot on Sunset Strip both 1967 In HOT RODS FROM HELL, the headliners are Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain as two marrieds with a small boy and a teenage girl who get harassed by young punks in a speedster, an
Written by James M. Tate / 4/24/2019 / No comments / barbara rush , douglas sirk , fifties , jane wyman , melodrama , new age , rock hudson , romance
DOUGLAS SIRK SERVES 'MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION' W/ ROCK HUDSON
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/24/2019
Rock Hudson you like a Hurricane IV Speedboat YEAR: 1954 By far one of the strangest 1950's Technicolor melodramas ever made, MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION put Rock Hudson on the map, and he's the best thing going here... Especially since his char
Written by James M. Tate / 4/23/2019 / No comments / action , adventure , animation , arnold stang , cartoon , cult , exploitation , fantasy , kids , science-fiction , sixties
AWESOMELY RADICAL ANIMATION OF 'PINOCCHIO IN OUTER SPACE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/23/2019
Year of Arrival: 1965 Pinocchio in Outer Space Scores: ****Take away a dingy song during the first half-hour dealing with our main character at home, who's a puppet again after a naughty montage of ditching school, bullying a dog and get
Written by James M. Tate / 4/14/2019 / No comments / country music , debra winger , eighties , interview , james bridges , james gammon , jessie la rive , john travolta , love triangle , scott glenn , sport
JESSIE LA RIVE MAPES ON PLAYING HERSELF IN 'URBAN COWBOY'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/14/2019
Interview with Urban Cowboy's Jessie La Rive Mapes "Hold my beer, Jessie," Debra Winger's character, Sissy, tells real life cowgirl Jessie La Rive Mapes, then billed as Jessie La Rive, in the popular 1980 John Travolta feature URBAN COWBO
Written by James M. Tate / 4/11/2019 / No comments / alec mccowen , alfred hitchcock , anna massey , barbara leigh-hunt , barry foster , billie whitelaw , body count , dark comedy , exploitation , jon finch , neo noir , seventies , suspense , thriller , wrong man
ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 'FRENZY' WITH JON FINCH & BARRY FOSTER
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/11/2019
Opening credit sequence for FRENZY Year: 1972 After a dry-spell with melodramas and big budget espionage films, Alfred Hitchock had an artistic comeback with FRENZY: Also serving as a grand return to England where Piccadilly Circus feels l
Written by James M. Tate / 4/10/2019 / No comments / debra winger , drama , eighties , james bridges , jessie la rive , john travolta , madolyn smith , melodrama , romance , scott glenn , sport
JOHN TRAVOLTA RIDES 'URBAN COWBOY' VERSES SCOTT GLENN
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/10/2019
John Travolta in Urban Cowboy YEAR: 1980 Another soundtrack film with John Travolta after disco and 1950's rock paid off, James Bridges' URBAN COWBOY is a character-driven, intentionally plotless melodrama with a ripped-muscular Scott Glen
Written by James M. Tate / 4/06/2019 / No comments /
GEORGE MONTGOMERY IN 'CANYON RIVER'
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CANYON RIVER HAS MOVED HERE Original Warner Archive DVD
Written by James M. Tate / 4/05/2019 / No comments / daniel stern , dennis christopher , dennis quaid , hart bochner , jackie earle haley , john ashton , paul dooley , peter yates , robyn douglass , small town , sport , teen
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER RIDES 'BREAKING AWAY' W/ DENNIS QUAID
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/05/2019
Epitomizes the Haves Haves Not of Breaking Away YEAR: 1979 Feel good movie about teens from the poor side of the tracks but with a cool rock-diving water hole to hang at, BREAKING AWAY is distinguished by a confidently upbeat, quirky prot
Written by James M. Tate / 4/03/2019 / No comments / dalton trumbo , fifties , film noir or melodrama , john garfield , shelley winters , wallace ford
ACTOR JOHN GARFIELD'S FINAL STRIDE FOR 'HE RAN ALL THE WAY'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/03/2019
John Garfield in HE RAN ALL THE WAY Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2The death of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE star John Garfield, especially for rabid fans of Film Noir, is that of a martyr; if ever there was a martyr caused by the Hollywood Bla
TIM BURTON & MICHAEL KEATON ORIGINAL 'BATMAN' REVIEWED
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/03/2019
Joker's Commercial Logo from BATMAN Year: 1989 Since the extremely dark Christopher Nolan DARK KNIGHT trilogy, the original Michael Keaton BATMAN is viewed as too shiny, vapid, dated... for kids and kids only: The campy Adam West televisio
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