Epinions Recent Reviews for Charles_Tatum

Robert D. Webb's The Jackals

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:21:56 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - This remake of "Yellow Sky" plays like a two hour episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel," and tries everything it can to convince the viewer it is not a typical western...and yet, it is. Stretch (Robert Gunner) leads a gang into a gold rush era small...

Brian Burns' You Stupid Man

Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:04:51 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - It's all here: beautiful New Yorkers who never work, have great one-liners at the ready, and characters who think of themselves as the centers of their respective universes. The only thing missing from "You Stupid Man" is the opening credit "a Woody...

Marcello Andrei's Season for Assassins

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:54:41 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - Joe Dallesandro and his gang of annoying juvenile delinquents take on police commissioner Martin Balsam and his understaffed police force. Bored, yet? Pierro (Joe Dallesandro) is a real sociopath. He has a former hooker wife and a sick baby at home,...

George Marshall's Papa's Delicate Condition

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:27:33 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - Silent screen star Corinne Griffith's account of growing up with a hopelessly alcoholic father is given its own big screen treatment- and let the hijinks ensue! Corrie (Linda Bruhl) is a sweet little six year old who worships her father, Jack (Jackie...

Robert Ginty's Woman of Desire

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:05:29 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - Bo Derek, who made some of the worst films of the 1980's (directed by her husband), decided to go out on her own with this film noir wannabe. A nude Jack (Jeff Fahey) is found washed up on the beach at about the same time Christina (Bo Derek) is at...

D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:49:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - The years have not been kind to D.W. Griffith, the father of American film direction. "Birth of a Nation," an average but landmark film, is better known for its racism than its technical achievements. "Broken Blossoms" is also not politically correct,...

Phillip J. Jones' Wish Me Luck

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:24:49 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - Desperation. Sometimes film makers will go to extreme lengths for an audience. For some, wacky gadgets and mock insurance policies pull the crowds in. For others, a good script and capable performers are enough, but not here. To make sure the audience...

Luca Bercovici's The Chain

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:03:50 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - Gary Busey, who has appeared in exactly one good movie in his life, huffs and puffs through a Filipino jungle, chained to his arch enemy, and making the viewer wistful for "The Defiant Ones"...or even "Deadlock." Frank (Gary Busey) is a Boston cop...

Robert C. Perteno's Pin Down Girls

Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:16:19 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - This $1.98 production tells the story of one Peaches Page, an aspiring female wrestler whose two ginormous breasts give the best performance in the film. Peaches Page, played by Peaches Page, has her wrestling contract bought by Scalli (Timothy...

William Hellfire's Lust in the Mummy's Tomb/The Vibrating Maid

Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:08:23 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - **Just a warning: this review is for a sexually explicit film...I mean, a home video** No expense is spared in yet another Misty Mundae softcore romp. In "Lust in the Mummy's Tomb," Mundae is a schoolgirl who wakes up one morning and takes a...

Toshio Masuda's The Last Days of Planet Earth

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:19:26 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel giggly. That Nostradamus was one smart dude. Everything he predicted came true. Hitler, World War II, the rise of Communism, American Idol- the true global problems that we face today were foreseen...

Young the Gay and the Restless: Joe Castro's The Young, the Gay, and the Restless

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:09:24 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - Geez, if you are going to spoof daytime soap operas, you could at least look like you are having fun doing it. Victoria (Ms. Elliott) and Francis (Joseph Haggerty) have been together for ten years, a lifetime for a gay relationship, according to one...

Agusti Villaronga's El Mar

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:03:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - This emotionally draining film uses taboo images and violence to make its points, and make the viewer think. In other words, this ain't no Adam Sandler chucklefest. Two boys, Ramallo and Manuel, and a girl, Francisca, are caught up in the mass...

Noel Nosseck's NightScream

Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:12:25 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - The only screaming I experienced during the viewing of this film were the results of my uncontrollable laughter. Drew (Candace Cameron Bure) shows up in a small Oregon coastal town, a town still reeling from a murder-suicide a year earlier. It seems...

Delbert Mann's No Place to Run

Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:06:16 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - Sit down, children, and let me tell you a story. Back in the 1970's there were only three networks on television, not counting you lucky high society types who got PBS or an independent station...quit crying, Billy, I'm not trying to scare you. Where...

"Get in Touch with Yourself"- Swing Out Sister

Thu, 10 May 2007 16:18:32 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - Swing Out Sister is the duo of vocalist Corinne Drewery and keyboardist Andy Connell. They were big in the late '80's and early '90's with songs like "Breakout," and the only hit on this album. They rode the coat tails of such new jazzy bands like Level...

"Laundry Service"- Shakira

Wed, 9 May 2007 16:10:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - When you hear a Latin artist has released an English language album, you assume there will be plenty of bland love lyrics set to the kind of music you hear piped into your local Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant, where you try to enjoy a Cancun Combination...

Raymond Bial's Ghost Towns of the American West

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:23:40 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - Raymond Bial attempts a monumental task- tracing the history of ghost towns in a children's book. He does not succeed. The book is populated with some lovely color photography of a couple of ghost towns in the American west. The text is easy to read,...

Ann Warren Turner's Drummer Boy

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:00:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - Author Ann Turner and illustrator Mark Hess team up to tell the story of a drummer boy who joins the Union army in the U.S. Civil War. It is a wonderful book that does not talk down to children. The protagonist is an unnamed thirteen year old rural...

John O. Nelson's Opportunities in Religious Service Careers

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:12:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - John O. Nelson's small but informative book was last updated in 2004. Nelson right away explains that a call to religious service is much different than picking a career in another field. Religious service can carry with it prejudice and stigma, as...

Richard Zacks' An Underground Education

Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:30:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - You must think you are the cat's patoot, so sure you know everything. You paid attention in class, got good grades, and everything Mr. or Mrs. Insert Teacher's Name Here said was true because they had a college degree and the bravery to stand in front of...

Dale Walker's Legends and Lies

Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:26:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - In twelve chapters, Walker touches on a dozen great mysteries of Western lore. He does not set out to solve any of them, but think again if you expect this book to do nothing but regurgitate old facts. You may have heard of many of the stories in...

The Cartoon Network's Scooby-Doo: A Nutcracker Scoob

Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:20:28 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - With the new live action movie, everything with the name "Scooby Doo" on it is turning to gold- or at least selling like gold. This compilation video is not gold. I sat my five year old son down in front of the television, and we started the hour long...

"Giant Hits"- Johnny Cash

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:12:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - Johnny Cash is still going, releasing a new song called "Hurt", and a video by Mark Romanek that is the most emotionally draining piece of film I have seen all year. Cash knows how to do it, possessing attitude and talent that does not seem like the...

Military Channel's The War That Changed War- Armor

Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:43:56 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Charles_Tatum - This hour long video makes a big to-do about how World War II changed the world and the way we fight wars. Unfortunately, it barely makes any sort of point, and is so boring it took me three days to complete.

A sleepy-sounding narrator gives...