Author: Brian Milinsky
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Director / writer / producer / actor Garry Marshall has died
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That’s Garry Marshall as “Rigfort” in 1999’s Never Been Kissed. He was as comfortable in front of the camera as an actor as he was behind it as a writer/director/producer. Born in the Bronx in…
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Tail Slate recasts the 1976 film ‘The Eagle Has Landed’
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Time for a remake of an underrated film from the mid 1970s, let us know what you think of our casting
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‘The Purge: Election Year’ is a solid entry in the franchise
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When The Purge was released in 2013 it was a critical failure but a commercial success. That kind of result is almost guaranteed to generate a sequel, and possibly launch a new franchise. The following…
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‘How He Fell in Love’ rises above typical indie film dramas
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How He Fell in Love is an unusual film in several ways. It’s an indie drama that isn’t making a social statement. It looks at a critical social issue without making any judgments.
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Independence Day: Resurgence breaks away from the original, badly
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“Houston, we have a problem.” Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in 1995’s ‘Apollo 13’ Nearly two decades ago, Roland Emmerich brought Independence Day to the big screen. It won an Academy Award for Best Visual…
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It’s easy to love ‘Love & Friendship’
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“‘Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mister Right” – Madonna in her song Material Girl. The title of the latest film from the multi-talented writer/director/producer Whit Stillman might seem a bit…
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The mercurial Michael Cimino dies at age 77
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Director/writer Michael Cimino has died at the age of 77. He directed seven feature films (and one segment in 2007’s To Each His Own Cinema) and is best known for two of them. 1978’s The…
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‘Me Before You’ is a real tear-jerker
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Making a beloved novel into a film is never an easy task. Even when the author adapts their own work for the screen, the limits of time and budget make it virtually impossible to translate…
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The documentary film ‘Art Bastard’ is actually quite legitimate
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“The Metropolitan (Museum) to me was more special than a church” – Robert Cenedella Writer/director Victor Kanefsky is known primarily for his work as an editor. Now he’s the man behind Art Bastard, an in-depth…
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Our favorite Samuel L. Jackson ‘movie deaths’ – Tail Slate Top Ten
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WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS if you haven’t seen any of the movies. There are also some not-nice words and moments of bloody violence.