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Best of 2012: 3 films by foreign directors you didn’t see… but should have
Gareth Evans. director of ‘The Raid: Redemption’ 1. The Raid: Redemption Written and directed by Gareth Evans Starring: Iko Uwais, Doni Alamsyah, Joe Taslim, Yayan Ruhian Welsh-born Gareth Evans brings...
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Best of 2012: Top 4 films written & directed by women
Lorene Scafaria, writer/director of ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’ 1. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Written and directed by Lorene Scafaria Starring: Steve Carrell, Keira...
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Best of 2012: The 10 best documentary films
Jiro demonstrates how to make the finest sushi in the world 2012 was a good year for documentaries. There were a number of films that were considered for but just missed making this list. In no...
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Best of 2012: The year’s top 10 indie flicks
The rules for this list were: No foreign films. No documentaries. No films intended for wide release, although if they broke wide later on, they were eligible. In general, if a movie was eligible...
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Staying home on New Year’s Eve? Why not make it a movie night!
On New Year’s Eve you might choose to stay home. Too many people out driving who’ve had too much to drink to be behind the wheel, or you’re just not in the mood for partying. Whatever the reason,...
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Best of 2012: Foreign films dig deep with tales of friendship and survival
In no particular order, these are the best foreign films of 2012. This list is not limited to foreign language films. “Driss” pushes “Philippe” in a scene from ‘The Intouchables’ The Intouchables –...
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Best of 2012: The year’s top 10 performances
2012 was certainly a diverse year in terms of subject, style and substance in film, and the performances within them reflected that versatility as well. Below are the top 10 film performances of the...
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Important films from 1988
Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in a scene from ‘Rain Man’ This year one of our goals at Tail Slate is to look at the films of the past in addition to reviewing the films of the present, and informing...
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‘Safe Haven’ is the latest in a long line of Nicholas Sparks books to become...
Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough in ‘Safe Haven’ On February 14th, the film Safe Haven opens. Based on the seven previous adaptations of books written by Nicholas Sparks, it should do well at the box...
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The 25th anniversary of the first ‘Die Hard’ film brings us ‘A Good Day to...
Bruce Willis became an action star with his unforgettable turn as John McClane in 1988′s ‘Die Hard’ In 1988 a movie opened starring Bruce Willis as a hard-nosed New York City police detective going out...
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Jaws-Dropped: The bizarre phenomenon that was ‘Sharknado’
‘Sharknado’ was a rating hit for SyFy, as well as a viral one By all accounts, the film to claim the summer of 2013 should have been anything but a Syfy channel original movie. Yet what happened was...
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Remembering Karen Black
Karen Black in Rob Zombie’s ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ Karen Black, veteran and Academy Award-nominated actress who has been in roughly 200 works, passed away after battling ampullary cancer last month....
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Our favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman performances
Philip Seymour Hoffman in ‘Almost Famous’ In the wake of the untimely passing of the incredibly talented Philip Seymour Hoffman, TailSlate has taken a look at his filmography and chosen five of his...
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James Horner – An Appreciation
James Horner, 61, died in a plane crash in California. The first movie soundtrack I remember obsessing over was Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. It’s a powerful cacophony of thumping brass and strings....
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A film franchise fast approaches forty years and it’s still going strong
In early December of 1976 a boxing movie was released in the U. S. It opened with the title character fighting “Spider Rico.” Today Spider Rico is nothing more than the answer to a trivia question,...
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The Politics of ’13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi’
“It’s not about the politics, it’s the story of what happened on the ground that night.” – Mark Geist (callsign “Oz”) To say that conservatives who are horrified at the prospect of Hillary Clinton...
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TailSlate suggests a few “war films” for Memorial Day Viewing
A quick check of television listings for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend shows pretty much the same tried and true war movies will air this year that are shown year in and year out. Not that there...
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Our Favorite Samuel L. Jackson ‘Movie Deaths’– Tail Slate Top 10
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. Academy Award nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson has...
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Star Trek Stuff
William Shatner and frequent uncredited stand-in Bill Blackburn in the “Star Trek” episode “Arena” For the American television viewing public, it began on a Thursday evening in September of 1966....
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The Irony of TV’s Content Comfort Trap
Television often returns to the familiar, such as with Keifer Sutherland, ‘MacGyver’ and Kevin James, because that often what audiences like. Generation X is a spoiled TV generation. Growing up, we had...
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