Written by James M. Tate / 3/31/2025 / No comments / akira takarada , godzilla franchise , keiko sawai , kumi mizuno , monster , nick adams , science-fiction , showa era , sixties
KUMI MIZUNO IN GODZILLA VS 'INVASION OF THE ASTRO-MONSTER'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/31/2025
Title: INVASION OF THE ASTRO-MONSTER Year: 1965 Rating: ****1/2Ironic that American actor Nick Adams, who did a horrible job dubbing the dead James Dean's voice in GIANT, is dubbed horribly in INVASION OF THE ASTRO-MONSTER, the second Godzi
Written by James M. Tate / 3/30/2025 / No comments / adventure , akiko wakabayashi , fantasy , franchise , godzilla , ishirô honda , monster , science-fiction , showa era , sixties , yuriko hoshi
YURIKO HOSHI UNCOVERS 'GHIDORAH: THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/30/2025
Title: Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster Year: 1964 Rating: ****It's ironic that Japanese bombshell Akiko Wakabayashi would soon be the first Bond Girl in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE since GHIDORAH: THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER has her character, an A
Written by James M. Tate / 3/29/2025 / No comments / action , adventure , akira takarada , fantasy , franchise , godzilla , ishirô honda , japanese , monster , science-fiction , showa era , sixties , yuriko hoshi
YURIKO HOSHI UNCOVERS ISHIRÔ HONDA'S 'MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/29/2025
Title: MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA Year: 1964 Rating: ****1/2Japanese actress Yuriko Hoshi is one of the best Toho starlets, appeared in both GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA and GHIDORAH: THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER as a reporter named Junko, a hybrid of the love
Written by James M. Tate / 3/28/2025 / No comments / action , adventure , franchise , godzilla , heisei era , megumi odaka , monster , nineties , science-fiction
MEGUMI ODAKA IN 'GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA: THE BATTLE FOR EARTH'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/28/2025
Title: GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA: THE BATTLE FOR EARTH Year: 1992 Rating: ***1/2The previous installment GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH, the first sequel to GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE after GODZILLA 1984 rebooted the franchise, actually has a character a
Written by James M. Tate / 3/27/2025 / No comments / barbara bouchet , barbara magnolfi , body-count , emilio miraglia , giallo , horror , marina malfatti , marino mas , mirella d'angelo , pia giancaro , seventies , sybil danning
BARBARA BOUCHET STARS IN 'THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/27/2025
Title: THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES Year: 1972 Rating: ****Italian giallo director Emilio Miraglia created the gothic thriller THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES where the title anticipates the body-count horror aspect of sporadic victims s
Written by James M. Tate / 3/26/2025 / No comments / action , alfredo alba , charly bravo , christopher mitchum , exploitation , import , jean sorel , ramón pons , seventies , spanish , sue lyon
SUE LYON KILLING STANLEY KUBRICK FOR 'MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/26/2025
Sue Lyon in MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD Year: 1973 Rating: ***On the surface, Spanish low-budget director Eloy de la Iglesia's MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD is set in a future where young gangs are directly influenced by Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK
Written by James M. Tate / 3/25/2025 / No comments / fifties , franchise , godzilla , hiroshi koizumi , ishirô honda , japanese , motoyoshi oda , sequel , setsuko sakayama , showa era , takashi shimura
STOMPING THROUGH THE JAPANESE SEQUEL 'GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/25/2025
Title: GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN Year: 1955 Rating: **1/2In the original Japanese GODZILLA from 1954, it takes almost the entire third act to completely destroy the nuclear-powered monster... which is far too easily brought back in the following
Written by James M. Tate / 3/24/2025 / No comments / akihiko hirata , akira takarada , fifties , franchise , godzilla , ishirô honda , japanese , momoko kōchi , monster , showa era , takashi shimura
DIRECTOR ISHIRÔ HONDA'S 'GOJIRA' AKA THE ORIGINAL 'GODZILLA'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/24/2025
Title: GORJIRA/GODZILLA Year: 1954 Rating: ****1/2Ironically, the original grainy black-and-white GODZILLA, that spawned countless colorful sequels and reboots, seems intended as a one-off, being more of a symbolic cautionary-tale presentat
Written by James M. Tate / 3/23/2025 / No comments / action , anna nakagawa , dinosaur , franchise , godzilla , heisei era , japanese , megumi odaka , nineties , robert scott field , science-fiction , time travel , world war II
MEGUMI ODAKA & ANNA NAKAGAWA 'GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/23/2025
Title; GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH Year: 1991 Rating: ****Before Toho's comeback GODZILLA MINUS ONE, which was an all-out tribute to American filmmaker Steven Spielberg's JAWS, the late 1980's/1990's Godzilla franchise was paying him tribute
Written by James M. Tate / 3/22/2025 / No comments / action , adventure , creature , disaster , eighties , franchise , godzilla , heisei era , japanese , kôji takahashi , megumi odaka , science-fiction , yoshiko tanaka
MEGUMI ODAKA MINDING MONSTERS IN 'GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/22/2025
YEAR: 1989 RATING: ****1/2 Strange that a movie about Godzilla fighting a giant plant with the head of a red rose would be one of the best of the entire franchise, dating back from the groundbreaking original classic, but it's true... GODZI
Written by James M. Tate / 3/21/2025 / No comments / action , beverly todd , cheryl smith , cop , eighties , exploitation , fred berry , gary sherman , gary swanson , lynda lei , nina blackwood , pepe serna , season hubley , wings hauser
WINGS HAUSER, GARY SWANSON & SEASON HUBLEY IN 'VICE SQUAD'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/21/2025
Wings Hauser in VICE SQUAD Year: 1982 Rating: ****Director Gary Sherman's VICE SQUAD combines three genres: involving a revenge-driven psychopath body-count/horror as Wings Hauser's killer pimp Ramrod murders hookers leading to the one that
Written by James M. Tate / 3/17/2025 / No comments / cold war , fifties , film noir or melodrama , jean peters , milburn stone , parley baer , richard kiley , richard widmark , samuel fuller , thelma ritter , willis bouchey
RICHARD WIMARK IN SAMUEL FULLER'S 'PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/17/2025
Title: PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2Samuel Fuller's PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET is arguably his best movie... if not his most conventional... a film noir that despises "Reds" and uses that word abundantly, which is a real tre
Written by James M. Tate / 3/16/2025 / No comments / action , barbara stanwyck , dean jagger , eve brent , gene barry , robert dix , samuel fuller , western
GENE BARRY IN SAMUEL FULLER'S NOIRISH WESTERN 'FORTY GUNS'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/16/2025
Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan in FORTY GUNS Year: 1957 Rating: ***It's not that Samuel Fuller was an entirely overrated director, but more modern and outright artistic auteurs, from France to America as well as the myriad of rabid Ful
Written by James M. Tate / 3/14/2025 / No comments / clint eastwood , ennio morricone , gian maria volontè , klaus kinski , lee van cleef , sergio leone , sixties , spaghetti western
CLINT EASTWOOD IN SERGIO LEONE'S 'FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/14/2025
Clint Eastwood in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Year: 1965 Rating: ****1/2Sergio Leone's Man With No Name or Dollars Trilogy was mainly interpreted as such from the second movie's sustaining title, A FEW DOLLARS MORE, sounding as if Clint Eastwood
Written by James M. Tate / 3/11/2025 / No comments / allen garfield , cindy williams , francis ford coppola , frederic forrest , gene hackman , harrison ford , john cazale , mark wheeler , michael higgins , neo noir , ramon bieri , robert duvall , seventies , thriller
GENE HACKMAN IN FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S 'THE CONVERSATION'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/11/2025
Gene Hackman in THE CONVERSATION Year: 1974 Rating: ****1/2By the time Gene Hackman's surveillance expert Harry Caul attends a convention of lesser experts who consider him an icon, we've already learned about how surreptitious his methods
Written by James M. Tate / 3/03/2025 / No comments / alan weeks , arlene farber , bill hickman , cop , drugs , eddie egan , exploitation , fernado rey , frédéric de pasquale , gene hackman , patrick mcdermott , roy scheider , william friedkin
GENE HACKMAN WITH ROY SCHEIDER IN 'THE FRENCH CONNECTION'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/03/2025
Title: THE FRENCH CONNECTION Shown: Gene Hackman, Marcel Bozzuffi Year: 1971 Rating: ****1/2After becoming a legendary yet sometimes difficult actor, Gene Hackman would put vulnerable young directors through the ringer, ranging from two of
Written by James M. Tate / 3/02/2025 / No comments / action , bernard fresson , cop , drugs , ed lauter , exploitation , fernando rey , gene hackman , john frankenheimer , sequel , seventies
GENE HACKMAN RETURNING FOR 'THE FRENCH CONNECTON II'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/02/2025
Gene Hackman in THE FRENCH CONNECTION II Year: 1975 Rating: ***There's a kind of guilty pleasure watching a thinned-down Gene Hackman as New York's favorite tough cop Popeye Doyle being force-fed heroin in a Euro-slum, and then kicking it
Written by James M. Tate / 3/01/2025 / No comments / ed lauter , eighties , gene hackman , helena kallianiotes , indie , joe pesci , mickey rourke , nicolas roeg , rutger hauer , theresa russell
GENE HACKMAN MINING THROUGH NICOLAS ROAG'S 'EUREKA'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 3/01/2025
Gene Hackman in EUREKA Year: 1983 Rating: **1/2Following the game-changing THE FRENCH CONNECTION turning 2nd-lead and/or villain-role character-actor Gene Hackman into a leading man/movie star, he did two independent art-films, Jerry Schatz
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