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Category Archives: Action

May 16th, 2013: Desperado (1995)

Leave a comment Posted in Action, Crime, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Remake, Revenge, Sequel Tagged Antonio Banderas, Cheech Marin, Columbia Pictures, Danny Trejo, drug dealers, hit man, knives, mariachi, Mexico, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, triple threat

May 12th, 2013: Saving Private Perez

May12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fish-Out-of-Water, Gangster, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, Special Operations, Spoof, Suicide Mission, War Movies Tagged brothers, childhood friend, drug dealers, drug smuggler, Guerrillas, hit man, hostage, Iraq, low-budget, machetes, Mexico, mother, narcos, rescue mission, The Marines, U.S. Army, younger brother

Saving Private Perez

Apr8 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Full Reviews, Gangster, Independent, Reviews, Slapstick, Special Operations, Spoof, War Movies Tagged brothers, childhood friend, drug dealers, drug smuggler, Guerrillas, hit man, hostage, Iraq, low-budget, machetes, Mexico, mother, narcos, rescue mission, The Marines, U.S. Army, younger brother

March 21st, 2013: Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!

Mar21 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Adult, Black and White, Camp, Comedy, Crime, Hostage Situation, Independent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, So-Bad-It's-Good, Softcore Tagged car racing, dirty old man, double cross, Drive-In, go go dancers, grindhouse, Haji, low-budget, muscle man, Russ Meyers, treasure, Tura Santana

Ministry of Vengeance

Mar2 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Espionage, Full Reviews, Independent, Revenge, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Good, Thriller Tagged "I'm Done Fighting", airport, attempted rape, cash-in, child death, Concorde Pictures, double cross, flashback, George Kennedy, hard ass seargant, hostage, Italy, James Tolkan, John Schneider, last stand, Lebanon, low-budget, Middle East, military training, minister, Ned Beatty, post traumatic stress disorder, pushed too far, Rome, terrorists, the declining years, torture, training sequence, TV actors, twist, under siege, Vietnam, Vietnam veterans, Yaphet Kotto

Nightmare at Noon aka Death Street USA

Feb18 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Disaster, Horror, Independent, Quick Reviews, Remake, Reviews, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, Western, Zombies Tagged albinos, Bo Hopkins, Brion James, drifter, Drive-In, ex-cop, George Kennedy, Hans Zimmer, helicopter, hitchhiking, intelligent zombies, Kimberly Beck, lawyers, motor home, rip-off, scientists, sheriff, tool using zombies, vigilantes, virus zombies, Wings Hauser, yuppies

February 17th, 2013: Slaughter (1972)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Buddy Flick, Crime, Movie of the Day, Revenge, The Original Tagged AIP, casino, Don Gordon, double cross, Drive-In, funk soundtrack, Green Beret, grindhouse, handball, Jim Brown, MacGuffin, Mafia, Marlene Clark, maverick, Mexico, mobsters, racism, racist cops, racists, revenge, Rip Torn, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Stella Stevens, T-Men, veteran, Vietnam veterans

February 16th, 2013: The Mummy (1999)

Feb16 by professormortis

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4 Comments Posted in Action, Adventure, Comedy, Event Film, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Mummy, Period Film, Remake, Romance, Screwball, Slapstick, The Original Tagged "re-imagined", "This Lost World is Gonna Blow!", Arnold Vosloo, before they were famous, biblical allusion, Brendan Fraser, buried alive, buried treasure, cult, cult leader, cultists, deserted city, doomed expedition, Egypt, Egyptians, Erick Avari, ethnic stereotype, fire, French Foreign Legion, Great War veteran, Jerry Goldsmith, John Hannah, Jonathan Hyde, Kevin J. O'Connor, Legionnaire, librarian, library, Oded Fehr, Odious Comic Relief, pilots, plague, Rachel Weisz, reincarnation, riverboat, scarab, secret society, sorcerer, Stephen Sommers, storm, thief, Universal Pictures, World War One

February 12th, 2013: Mitchell (1975)

Feb12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Cops, Crime, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Allied Artists, Andrew V. McLaglen, cash-in, children of famous people, corrupt cops, corrupt politicians, double cross, Drive-In, drug dealers, drug smugglers, drugs, grindhouse, helicopter, heroin, Hoyt Axton, incompetent cops, it's not over, Jerry Hardin, Joe Don Baker, John Saxon, Linda Evans, low-budget, Martin Balsam, maverick, maverick cops, Merlin Olsen, mobsters, murder, rip-off

January 28th, 2013: The Big Bird Cage

Jan28 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Crime, Movie of the Day, Prison, WiP

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