Written by James M. Tate / 6/29/2023 / No comments / al rubin , dennis burkley , harrison ford , henry winkler , john cassavetes , road movie , sally field , seventies , val avery , vietnam
HENRY WINKLER & SALLY FIELD IN 'HEROES' WITH HARRISON FORD
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/29/2023
Harrison Ford in HEROES Year: 1977 Rating: ***Wanna see Henry Winkler beat up a barroom full of bikers without the use of his magical leather jacket? In HEROES he plays a goofy, manic, troubled Vietnam Vet who, after escaping from a menta
Written by James M. Tate / 6/28/2023 / No comments / cyndi lauper , eighties , jeff goldblum , julian sands , michael lerner , peter falk , peter jason , romantic comedy
CYNDI LAUPER & JEFF GOLBLUM 'VIBES' PETER FALK & JULIAN SANDS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/28/2023
Title: VIBES Year: 1988 Rating: ***It's a shame this comedy/adventure, about two slacker city folk with psychic powers, bombed so hard in theaters because Cyndi Lauper – the 1980's icon who sang about girls wanting to have fun – is a pr
Written by James M. Tate / 6/27/2023 / No comments / comedy , counter culture , cult , drama , hal ashby , indie , jack nicholson , luana anders , military , nancy allen , otis young , randy quaid , road movie , seventies
JACK NICHOLSON WITH OTIS YOUNG TAKING ON 'THE LAST DETAIL'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/27/2023
Jack Nicholson and Otis Young in THE LAST DETAIL Year: 1973 Rating: *****What makes THE LAST DETAIL as much comedy as drama is the brilliant use of quick editing, like whenever Navy lifer Jack Nicholson gets too drunk and boisterous, turnin
Written by James M. Tate / 6/25/2023 / No comments / charlene holt , cult , ensemble , gail hire , george takei , hangout , howard hawks , james caan , laura devon , marianna hill , norman aldan , race car , sixties , skip ward , sport , teri garr
DIRECTOR HOWARD HAWKS RACE CAR MELODRAMA 'RED LINE 7000'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/25/2023
Title: RED LINE 7000 Stars: James Caan Director: Howard Hawks Rating: ***1/2One of the strangest race car movies of all time is also the most grounded, deliberately mundane, and, directed by an old Howard Hawks starring a young James Caan (
Written by James M. Tate / 6/24/2023 / No comments / drama , francis ford coppola , independent , james caan , road movie , robert duvall , shirley knight , sixties
JAMES CAAN & SHIRLEY KNIGHT IN COPPOLA'S 'THE RAIN PEOPLE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/24/2023
Title: THE RAIN PEOPLE Year: 1969 Rating: ****While his PATTON Oscar-winning screenplay gave Francis Ford Coppola the power and clout to direct two of the greatest (or perhaps the greatest) motion pictures ever made... both GODFATHER films.
MEMORIAL FOR 'APOCALYPSE NOW' LEGEND FREDERIC FORREST
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/24/2023
Memorial for Frederic Forrest as Chef in Apocalypse NowIn Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam epic APOCALYPSE NOW, by the time Martin Sheen's Captain Willard reveals to one of two surviving PBR-boat crewman about his secret mission to kill
Written by James M. Tate / 6/23/2023 / No comments / british , british new wave , crime , heist , imogen hassal , oliver reed , roger moore , sixties , the saint , TV , yvonne romain
OLIVER REED DOUBLE FEATURE ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/23/2023
Oliver Reed on two 1963 episodes of THE SAINT starring Roger MooreIn his early troubled-youth pictures THE SYSTEM and THE PARTY'S OVER, British actor Oliver Reed gave his future roles away with imitations that are, in those cases, poking fu
JANE ASHER IN 'THE SAINT' DOUBLE FEATURE WITH ROGER MOORE
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/23/2023
Jane Asher in THE SAINT episode The Noble Sportsman from 1963Classy, sexy, gorgeous yet equally quirky-cute, girl-next-door British child turned teen turned adult starlet JANE ASHER, right before her big break in Roger Corman's MASQUE OF TH
Written by James M. Tate / 6/22/2023 / No comments / british neo noir , british new wave , ian hendry , james villiers , jane asher , jeremy brett , kieron moore , mystery , natasha parry , peter arne , ronald fraser , sixties , thriller
JANE ASHER & IAN HENDRY RELATE WITH 'GIRL IN THE HEADLINES'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/22/2023
Jane Asher from GIRL IN THE HEADLINES Year: 1963 Rating: **1/2Also known as THE MODEL MURDER CASE, this British Neo Noir has a perfectly cast Ian Hendry with Ronald Fraser as cop partners (Inspector and Sergeant) with such terrific chemistr
Written by James M. Tate / 6/21/2023 / No comments / arthouse , cult , diana dors , drama , exploitation , jane asher , seventies
JANE ASHER HYPNOTICALLY DIVES INTO THE CURIO OF 'DEEP END'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/21/2023
Jane Asher in DEEP END Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2Had a more genuinely expressive, professionally-trained young actor starred in Jerzy Skolimowski's DEEP END, about virginal fifteen-year-old John Moulder-Brown working at a fictional English t
Written by James M. Tate / 6/20/2023 / No comments / british , cult , disease , edgar allan poe , hazel court , horror , jane asher , mystery , patrick magee , roger corman , sixties , victorian , vincent prince
VINCENT PRICE & JANE ASHER IN 'THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/20/2023
Jane Asher guides through THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Year: 1964 Rating: ****1/2In the Edgar Allen Poe adaptation of THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, low-budget director Roger Corman goes all-out in a gorgeously-shot hybrid of Ingmar Bergman's
Written by James M. Tate / 6/19/2023 / No comments / biopic , british , british film noir , crime , diana dors , fifties , j. lee thompson , liam redmond , michael craig , michael ripper , prison
DIANA DORS IN 'YIELD TO THE NIGHT' WITH MICHAEL CRAIG
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/19/2023
Diana Dors in YIELD TO THE NIGHT Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2The true life capital punishment expose YIELD TO THE NIGHT had its name changed to BLONDE SINNER, with poster images focusing on a gun-wielding, femme-fatale type in the full-lipped M
Written by James M. Tate / 6/15/2023 / No comments / adventure , andrés garcía , arthur kennedy , fantasy , janet agren , mystery , shark , stelvio cipriani , thriller , tonino ricci , treasure
DIRECTOR TONINO RICCI'S 'CAVE OF THE SHARKS' WITH JANET AGREN
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/15/2023
Title: CAVE OF THE SHARK Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2Italian director Tonino Ricci's CAVE OF THE SHARKS seems like a JAWS-clone by the title, but most of the sharks here can't move, hypnotically inactive on the sea floor as Stelvio Cipriani's
Written by James M. Tate / 6/14/2023 / No comments / ann southern , carroll baker , edmond o'brien , george maharis , gordon douglas , gumshoe , neo noir , sixties , viveca lindfors
CARROLL BAKER'S 'SYLVIA' INVESTIGATED BY GEORGE MAHARIS
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/14/2023
Title: SYLVIA Year: 1965 Rating: **Beginning as a new take on the classic film noir THE BIG SLEEP, where a comfortably stricken rich man hires a streetwise private eye to investigate his missing daughter: well it's a fiance this time, here
Written by James M. Tate / 6/13/2023 / No comments / action , antonio fargas , christopher connelly , eighties , exploitation , italian import , janet agren , john steiner , mobster , neo noir , nina soldano , sal borgese , shark , stelvio cipriani , thriller , tonino ricci
TREAT WILLIAMS IN THE ITALIAN IMPORT 'NIGHT OF THE SHARKS'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/13/2023
Treat Williams and Janet Agren in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS Year: 1988 Rating: ***Extremely low-budget imported Italian exploitation involving one of the most familiar potboiler plot-lines: a careless, flaky sibling (in this case younger brother)
Written by James M. Tate / 6/11/2023 / No comments / ben johnson , burt reynolds , catherine bach , catherine deneuve , cop , crime , eddie albert , ernest borgnine , neo noir , paul winfield , robert aldrich , seventies
BURT REYNOLDS IN THE ROBERT ALDRICH NEO NOIR 'HUSTLE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/11/2023
Burt Reynolds and Paul Winfield in HUSTLE Year: 1975 Rating: ***One of those “stick with it” kind of movies, after the success of the universally entertaining THE LONGEST YARD, director Robert Aldrich reunites with Burt Reynolds in a noiris
Written by James M. Tate / 6/10/2023 / No comments / action , adventure , arthur kennedy , barry sullivan , book review , burt reynolds , exploitation , neo noir , samuel fuller , shark , silvia pinal , sixties , thriller , treasure
PULP NOVEL 'HIS BONES ARE CORAL' BECOMES THE CHOPPY 'SHARK'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/10/2023
Title: SHARK Year: 1969 Rating: ***Sometimes you run into a terrific pulp novel watching an old bad movie: In this case the Samuel Fuller sea noir SHARK came out in 1969 and starred a then mostly unknown Burt Reynolds as a drug runner, who
Written by James M. Tate / 6/08/2023 / No comments / action , angie dickinson , burt reynolds , clint walker , comedy , heist , ossie davis , tracey roberts , western
BURT REYNOLDS IN THE HEIST COMEDY WESTERN 'SAM WHISKEY'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/08/2023
Burt Reynolds in SAM WHISKEY Year: 1969 Grade: C+It's said Burt Reynolds stopped taking acting seriously when he started doing more lightweight comedies than dramatic films, or when he'd attempt combining both with the zaniness upfront...Bu
Written by James M. Tate / 6/04/2023 / No comments / asa maynor , creature , cult , fifties , hike , horror , indie , monster , thriller
ASA MAYNOR IN THE LOW BUDGET CREATURE FEATURE 'MAN BEAST'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/04/2023
Asa Maynor in MAN BEAST Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2Cherub-cheeked, full-lipped cutie Asa Maynor (billed as Virginia Maynor) had a career bookeneded by cinematic creatures: first here in MAN BEAST who, as he sister of a missing archeologist, is
Written by James M. Tate / 6/03/2023 / No comments / andrew ray , british , burt reynolds , caper , con man , david niven , don siegel , heist , lesley-anne down , sue lloyd , susan littler , wolf kahler
BURT REYNOLDS AND DAVID NIVEN IN DON SIEGEL'S 'ROUGH CUT'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/03/2023
Asa Maynor in MAN BEAST Year: 1956 Rating: **1/2For poor David Niven, ROUGH CUT turned out to be the second heist comedy centering on diamond thieves where he gets lost in the mix: First of course was THE PINK PANTHER as the charming, sophi
Written by James M. Tate / 6/02/2023 / No comments / barrett oliver , eighties , horror , joanna cassidy , patty mccormack , robert urich , science-fiction , soleil moon frye , susan lucci , tv movie , wes craven
ROBERT URICH IN WES CRAVEN'S TV-MOVIE 'INVITATION TO HELL'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/02/2023
Robert Urich as Matt Winslow in Wes Craven's INVITATION TO HELL Year: 1984Being hassled to join the local gym can be downright annoying. They’ll say you need exercise, or that you should get out of your comfortable routine to meet people. O
Written by James M. Tate / 6/01/2023 / No comments / action , charles bronson , depression-era , gerald s. o'loughlin , italian , jill ireland , joseph wiseman , lino ventura , mobster , seventies , terence young
CHARLES BRONSON IN TERENCE YOUNG'S 'THE VALACHI PAPERS'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 6/01/2023
The Valachi Papers Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2One of the last Charles Bronson roles as a moody and irritable, tempermental character, soon mellowing int strong-silent types after DEATH WISH while director Terence Young follows along the exploi
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