Written by James M. Tate / 11/29/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , al adamson , biff yeager , blaxploitation , chia essie lin , jim kelly , karate , seventies , spy
JIM KELLY IN AL ADAMSON'S SPY BLAXPLOITATION 'BLACK SAMURAI'
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Jim Kelly and Chia Essie Lin in Al Adamson's BLACK SAMURAI Year: 1976 Rating: ****After Jim Kelly's Agent Robert Sand alias BLACK SAMURAI visits the Satanic high priest villain's dark mansion lair, which includes girls dancing, a trio of de
Written by James M. Tate / 11/24/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , al adamson , aldo ray , bob minor , george lazenby , harold sakata , jim kelly , karate , linda lawrence , seventies , spy , terry moore
JIM KELLY VS HAROLD SAKATA IN AL ADAMSON'S 'DEATH DIMENSION'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/24/2024
Jim Kelly in Al Adamson's DEATH DIMENSION Year: 1978 Rating: ***Any movie featuring Jim Kelly is an unrelated homage to ENTER THE DRAGON, the Bruce Lee classic in which he's the cocky token-black karate champ... and DEATH DIMENSION is the s
Written by James M. Tate / 11/23/2024 / No comments / action , bolo yeung , jim kelly , karate , mobster , nami misaki , neo noir , seventies , shu-ying cheng , tao-liang tan
JIM KELLY'S NOT BLACK BELT JONES IN 'THE TATTOO CONNECTION'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/23/2024
Jim Kelly in THE TATTOO CONNECTION Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2With the famous style of camera zooms going quickly forward and pulling back even quicker, THE TATTOO CONNECTION is more of a noirish Asian crime flick than martial arts... althoug
Written by James M. Tate / 11/22/2024 / No comments / adventure , george memmoli , irene tsu , jim kelly , judy brown , karate , sequel , seventies
JIM KELLY RETURNS AS BLACK BELT JONES HANDLING 'HOT POTATO'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/22/2024
Title: HOT POTATO Year: 1976 Rating: ***No one could fathom why the urban blaxploitation BLACK BELT JONES would have a pulpy-adventure sequel set in the Thailand jungle, so it's often regarded as basically, not a sequel: but it definitely i
Written by James M. Tate / 11/21/2024 / No comments / alan weeks , blaxploitation , eric laneuville , exploitation , gloria hendry , jim kelly , karate , mafia , malik carter , marla gibbs , scatman crothers , seventies , spy , ted lange , vince barbi
JIM KELLY KICKS FRONT IN ROBERT CLOUSE'S 'BLACK BELT JONES'
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Poster deliberately transforming Bruce Lee into Jim Kelly for BLACK BELT JONES Year: 1974 Rating: ****Anyone thinking ENTER THE DRAGON director Robert Clouse simply got lucky need only experience BLACK BELT JONES starring Bruce Lee's cocky
Written by James M. Tate / 11/20/2024 / No comments / action , alex rocco , blaxploitation , corbin bernsen , exploitation , fred williamson , howard platt , irene tsu , jay robinson , jim brown , jim kelly , karate , seventies
JIM KELLY, FRED WILLIAMSON & JIM BROWN 'THREE THE HARD WAY'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/20/2024
Title: THREE THE HARD WAY Year: 1974 Rating: ****By the time three multicolored motorcycles are cruising down downtown Chicago that are soon to be revealed carrying sadistic multiracial hotties, THREE THE HARD WAY has gone from a somewhat a
JACK STARRETT DIRECTS JIM BROWN VS RIP TORN IN 'SLAUGHTER'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/20/2024
Title: SLAUGHTER Director: Jack Starrett Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2By the time Rip Torn as a mobster's main hit-man kills the very boss who hired him to kill Jim Brown's titular black tough guy SLAUGHTER... seeking revenge for his father's
Written by James M. Tate / 11/19/2024 / No comments / armand assante , eco-horror , john frankenheimer , mia bendixsen , richard dysart , robert foxworth , talia shire
ROBERT FOXWORTH BEARS JOHN FRANKENHEIMER'S 'PROPHECY'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/19/2024
Title: PROPHECY Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2At one point, when idealistic city doctor Robert Foxworthy and quiet musician wife Taila Shire are in the Oregon woods investigating strange happenings around a Native American community, we cut to a
Written by James M. Tate / 11/17/2024 / No comments / beau bridges , beverly d'angelo , comedy , deborah rush , howard hesseman , hume cronyn , jessica tandy , john schlesinger , road movie , teri garr
RUSHING THROUGH JOHN SCHLESINGER'S 'HONKY TONK FREEWAY'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/17/2024
Title: HONKY TONK FREEWAY Year: 1981 Rating: ****John Schlesinger's HONKY TONK FREEWAY has two composers: Elmer Bernstein doing his usual triumphant march while Beatles producer George Martin's melancholy interludes are thrown in randomly f
Written by James M. Tate / 11/16/2024 / No comments / action , catherine mary stewart , cult , dan o'herlihy , fantasy , lance guest , nick castle , robert preston , rural , science-fiction , war
LANCE GUEST WITH ROBERT PRESTON IN 'THE LAST STARFIGHTER'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/16/2024
Title: THE LAST STARFIGHTER Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2The connection of THREE AMIGOS, GALAXY QUEST and TROPIC THUNDER... of actors thinking they're taking part in just another paid gig that turns out to be incredibly real and dangerous... in
Written by James M. Tate / 11/07/2024 / No comments / british tv , espionage , joyce blair , lois maxwell , paul stassino , quinn o'hara , roger moore , sixties , the saint , william sylvester
ROGER MOORE & LOIS MAXWELL 'THE SAINT: INTERLUDE IN VENICE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/07/2024
Roger Moore in The Saint: Interlude in Venice Year: 1966 Rating: ****There are good episodes and bad in all television shows, old and new, including THE SAINT, the spy thriller about not a secret-agent but philanthropist helping various peo
Written by James M. Tate / 11/03/2024 / No comments / don devlin , exploitation , frank killmond , gang , judy howard , michael granger , neo noir , pamela lincoln , ronnie burns , russ bender , russell howe , sixties
DARRELL HOWE WITH JUDY HOWARD IN 'ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/03/2024
Judy Howard in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO Year: 1962 Rating: ****When token investigator Michael Granger is kind of affably/subtly questioning local hoodlum Darrell Howe on he and his gang's whereabouts when some people got beat up the night befor
Written by James M. Tate / 11/02/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , blaxploitation , espionage , frank finlay , frank mcrea , john guillermin , neda arneric , richard roundtree , seventies , shaft , vonetta mcgee
JOHN GUILLERMIN DIRECTS RICHARD ROUNDTREE 'SHAFT IN AFRICA'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/02/2024
Richard Roundtree from SHAFT IN AFRICA Year: 1973 Rates: ***1/2Director John Guillermin's SHAFT IN AFRICA is such a deliberate espionage/spy flick, at one point the title character... who originated on paper before being adapted into one of
MARLON BRANDO & VAL KILMER RUIN 'THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 11/02/2024
Val Kilmer in THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU Year: 1996 Rating: **As the story goes, original director and screenwriter Richard Stanley was fired from THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, replaced by veteran John Frankenheimer who, prone to making action mo
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