Category: Commentary
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Looking Again: ‘Cold Case’ at 20
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Warning: The following article will contain spoilers for some episodes. The early 2000s saw an explosion in crime television programs. CSI debuted to immense popularity and would come to influence how society as a whole…
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Remembering Richard Belzer
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Richard Belzer, an actor who parlayed his comedic success into a decades-long tenure in hard-hitting drama, passed away yesterday at the age of 78. Born Richard Jay Belzer in Bridgeport, Connecticut on August 4, 1944,…
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Live Tonight! Channel 0: ‘Deathrow Gameshow’ at 35
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Warning: The following article will contain spoilers The story, all names, characters and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious, but wouldn’t it be neat if they weren’t? So reads the disclaimer in…
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TailSlate.net’s Favorite Food Films
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Films that focus on food, whether it be on the preparation of the food, or the joyful consumption of it; have been around for a long time. With the release of 2022’s The Menu we…
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Topical Films for Veteran’s Day
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As I write this, AMC cable channel, Sundance channel and other cable channels that recycle the same “war” movies every Veteran’s Day do not appear to have scheduled those same old movies. Midway, Saving Private…
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Sharon Stone and the ‘Basic Instinct’ leg-cross controversy
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It’s funny how the news cycle works. Stories have popped up everywhere today about Sharon Stone and her infamous “uncrossed legs” maneuver in 1992’s Basic Instinct. And the media, by and large, have been eating…
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Chadwick Boseman’s posthumous Best Actor nomination would make for rare Oscar win
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Actors’ roles live on long after they’re gone, but there have only been a handful of times where those roles nab award nominations. In its 93 years, the Academy Awards have featured nominees who were…
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Inspiring movies about making movies that will make you want to make movies (or maybe not)
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Eddie Murphy’s turn as Rudy Ray Moore in Netflix’s Dolemite is my Name is just inspirational. So much so, I found myself thinking about other movies about filmmaking that left me feeling energized and inspired.…
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‘The Hunt’ and a New Era of Forbidden Films
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“Hollywood is racist. What they’re doing, with the kind of movies they’re putting out, it’s actually very dangerous for our country. What Hollywood is doing is a tremendous disservice to our country.” United States President…
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Tail Slate looks at D-Day movies
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June 6, 1944. What is now commonly referred to as “D-Day.” The WWII Allies launch Operation Overlord. Over 150,000 Allied troops were involved in “Operation Overlord.” As is the case with most major historical events,…