The best and worst of video game-based movies
TailSlate looks at the video game turned movie genre
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Peter Cushing, Rogue One and CGI of dead actors
An actor’s career never really ends. Even after he’s dead. The debate over the use of deceased performers through computer effects has resurfaced in the wake of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The standalone prequel, set just before the events in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, includes the use of a…
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The irony of TV’s content comfort trap
In an entertainment landscape overflowing with programming, why are we inundated with reboots, remakes and reimagings? It’s because we find solace in the familiar.
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Star Trek Stuff
For the American television viewing public, it began on a Thursday evening in September of 1966. September 8th to be specific. That was the night that “Star Trek” first aired, on NBC. One has to wonder if the executives at CBS who turned down the chance to air Star Trek who turned it down because…
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Tail Slate suggests a few ‘war films’ for Memorial Day Viewing
Don’t know about you but I can’t handle watching ‘The Green Berets’ on another Memorial Day weekend
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The Politics of ’13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi’
To say that conservatives who are horrified at the prospect of Hillary Clinton being elected President this November are salivating at the release of the film “13 Hours” would be a major understatement.
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A film franchise fast approaches forty years and it’s still going strong
Rocky’s incredible journey continues.
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James Horner – An appreciation
It’s sad to know that we’ll never hear another original James Horner composition again.
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Our favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman performances
TailSlate has taken a look at Hoffman’s filmography and chose five of his film performances that are our favorites.
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Jaws-Dropped: The bizarre phenomenon that was ‘Sharknado’
Sharknado achieved an astonishing level of popularity, not only bringing in record numbers for its channel but also becoming some sort of event.
