Written by James M. Tate / 12/31/2023 / No comments / action , adventure , alex nicol , anthony mann , arthur kennedy , cathy o'donnell , donald crisp , jack elam , james stewart , mystery , thriller , wallace ford , western
JAMES STEWART WITH DONALD CRISP IN 'THE MAN FROM LARAMIE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/31/2023
Title: THE MAN FROM LARAMIE Year: 1955 Rating: ****1/2Within moments of Anthony Mann's THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, the old and new aspects of the beloved genre shift, and progress: opening with an old-fashion crooner singing about the title chara
Written by James M. Tate / 12/30/2023 / No comments / allen garfield , comedy , counter-culture , john astin , katharine ross , m. emmett walsh , orson welles , seventies , tom smothers
TOM SMOTHERS & ORSON WELLES IN 'GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/30/2023
Title: GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT Year: 1972 Rating: ***Ironically, Brian De Palma's GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT... an anti-corporate, counter-culture comedy... is a lot like the previous decade's I'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT'S'ISNAME, and both feature
Written by James M. Tate / 12/27/2023 / No comments / claire trevor , daun kennedy , dick powell , film noir or melodrama , forties , gumshoe , mike mazurski , raymond chandler , suspense , thriller
DICK POWELL'S PHILIP MARLOWE TACKLES 'MURDER, MY SWEET'
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Claire Trevor with Dick Powell & Anne Shirley in MURDER, MY SWEET Year: 1944 Rating: ****1/2"You go barging around without a clear idea of what you're doing," says MURDER MY SWEET good girl Anne Shirley to Dick Powell's loose, congenial, fr
Written by James M. Tate / 12/25/2023 / No comments / comic book , cop , crime , dragnet , exploitation , harry morgan , jack webb , sixties , tv series
INFAMOUS CRIMSON CRUSADER EPISODE FROM 'DRAGNET 1969'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/25/2023
Tittle: GOLIATH AWAITS 1981 Emma Samms, Mark Harmon, Robert Forster Rating: ***1/2Here's proof that young people worshiping comic book movies is nothing new: from one of the silliest yet entertaining episodes of the 1950's-born DRAGNET rebo
Written by James M. Tate / 12/21/2023 / No comments / ana gabriel , brion james , eric roberts , lance henriksen , neo noir , nineties , road movie , rural , serial killer , suspense
LANCE HENRIKSEN & ERIC ROBERTS IN 'THE NATURE OF THE BEAST'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/21/2023
Eric Roberts & Lance Henriksen in THE NATURE OF THE BEAST Year: 1995 Rates: ***1/2An exploitation Oscar and Felix casts Eric Roberts as Adrian, a dirty piece of human driftwood hitchhiking the lonesome desert highway where, in random stopov
Written by James M. Tate / 12/19/2023 / No comments / brett halsley , dana lund , exploitation , fifties , gang , high school , teen , yvonne lime
YVONNE LIME IN 'HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS' WITH SUSANNE SIDNEY
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/19/2023
Title: HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS seems like three movies in one, and the titular tale... about a gang of tough girl bullies playing tricks on beautiful blonde new girl Yvonne Lime... is not only the
Written by James M. Tate / 12/18/2023 / No comments / alan hale sr , bert lahr , comedy , forties , lloyd gough , max showalter , milton berle , ruth roman , virginia mayo , warner archives
MILTON BERLE & VIRGINIA MAYO IN 'ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/18/2023
Title: ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING Year: 1949 Rating: ****In the frame story of the first television star Milton Berle's 1949 big screen debut ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING, a young comic watches Milton as fictional-self Kipling "Kip" Cooper fi
Written by James M. Tate / 12/15/2023 / No comments / antonio margheriti , exploitation , frank pesce , heist , james francsiscus , jaws-clone , karen black , karen black interviews , lee majors , margaux hemingway , marisa berenson , neo noir , piranha , seventies
LEE MAJORS, MARGAUX HEMINGWAY & KAREN BLACK IN 'KILLER FISH'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/15/2023
The Naked Sun poster aka KILLER FISH Year: 1979This infamous low-budget Brazilian import isn't so bad: Centering on a group of diamond thieves in South America who, after blowing up a big outpost during the opening credits and nabbing a ca
Written by James M. Tate / 12/12/2023 / No comments / action , adventure , biker , bruce dern , counter-culture , diane ladd , dick miller , drama , frank maxwell , hangout , michael j. pollard , nancy sinatra , peter fonda , sixties
BEFORE 'EASY RIDER' WAS ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE WILD ANGELS'
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Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra in THE WILD ANGELS Year: 1966 Rating: **** Roger Corman's THE WILD ANGELS was the most significant precursor and overall impetus for EASY RIDER even beyond starring this film's star Peter Fonda... herein with b
Written by James M. Tate / 12/08/2023 / No comments / ben johnson , bill mckinney , charles bronson , ed lauter , jill ireland , mystery , rayford barnes , richard crenna , sally kirkland , thriller , tom gries , western
CHARLES BRONSON WITH JILL IRELAND IN 'BREAKHEART PASS'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/08/2023
Charles Bronson in BREAKHEART PASS Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2British actress Jill Ireland sporadically appearing in husband Charles Bronson's films was really a matter of convenience, providing the family a kind of busman's holiday that was
Written by James M. Tate / 12/06/2023 / No comments / action , charles bronson , crime , film noir or melodrama , howard mcnear , lawrence tierney , sixties , thriller , tv series , yvonne craig
CHARLES BRONSON'S 'MAN WITH A CAMERA' WITH YVONNE CRAIG
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/06/2023
Yvonne Craig & Charles Bronson in Man With A Camera: Hot Ice Cream 1960 Rates: ****1/2At the end of Lawrence Tierney's career's first stretch, of playing menacing heavies on the big screen, which includes central bad guys from DILLINGER and
Written by James M. Tate / 12/05/2023 / No comments / action , article , charles bronson , crime , hit-man , jan-michael vincent , jerry fielding , jill ireland , michael winner , neo noir , seventies , team-up , thriller
PARENTHETICAL ANALYSIS OF MICHAEL WINNER'S 'THE MECHANIC'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/05/2023
Charles Bronson in THE MECHANIC from 1974 Rating: ****By the time professional hit-man Arthur Bishop, skillfully underplayed by Charles Bronson... starring in the first of the 1972-1974 unconnected crime trilogy under the creative direction
Written by James M. Tate / 12/04/2023 / No comments / body count , cannon , charles bronson , eighties , exploitation , franchise , gang , jimmy page , laurence fishburne , michael winner , sequel
MICHAEL WINNER REDIRECTS CHARLES BRONSON IN 'DEATH WISH II'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/04/2023
Title: DEATH WISH II Year: 1982 Rating: ****Losing his wife entirely and daughter mentally to lethal hoods from the first movie had aged Charles Bronson's Paul Kersey eight-years when it's only supposed to be two.... which is how long it'd
Written by James M. Tate / 12/02/2023 / No comments / action , body count , charles bronson , christopher guest , death wish , edward grover , exploitation , hope lange , jeff goldblum , michael winner , seventies , steven keats , stuart margolin
MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS CHARLES BRONSON IN 'DEATH WISH'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 12/02/2023
Title: DEATH WISH Year: 1974 Rating: *****Of director Michael Winner and actor Charles Bronson's crime-trilogy spanning three consecutive years from 1972 to 1974... centering on hit-men for THE MECHANIC and cops in THE STONE KILLER... the m
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