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May 17th, 2013: Easy Rider (1969)

2 Comments Posted in Drama, Arthouse, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Buddy Flick Tagged ACLU, Bridget Fonda, brothel, cameos, Carrie Snodgress, cemetery, cocaine, commune, Dan Haggerty, Deep South, Dennis Hopper, drugs, farmers, hippies, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Laszlo Kovacs, lawyers, Los Angeles, LSD, Mardi Gras, Mexico, motorcycle, New Orleans, Peter Fonda, Phil Spector, prostitutes, rednecks, Terry Southern, Toni Basil

March 24th, 2013: The Great Escape (1963)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, P.O.W., Period Film, Prison, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Film Editing Nominee, blind, Charles Bronson, claustrophobia, David McCallum, Donald Pleasence, Elmer Bernstein, James Coburn, James Garner, John Sturges, motorcycle, Nazis, Nigel Stock, pilots, prison, prison break, Richard Attenborough, solitary, Steve McQueen, The Mirisch Corporation, tunnel, World War Two

Nightmare at Noon aka Death Street USA

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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

January 26th, 2013: Detroit 9000

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Leave a comment Posted in Blaxploitation, Buddy Flick, Cops, Crime, Independent, Movie of the Day Tagged Alex Rocco, Arthur Marks, cash-in, cops, corrupt cops, Detroit, double cross, Drive-In, funk soundtrack, grindhouse, Hari Rhodes, Herbert Jefferson Jr., location shooting, low-budget, Luchi De Jesus, maverick cops, Michigan, racist cops, rip-off, robbery, Scatman Crothers, twist, Vonetta McGee

Django Unchained

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3 Comments Posted in Buddy Flick, Comedy, Event Film, Full Reviews, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Revenge, Reviews, Revisionist Western, Satire, Slapstick, Spaghetti Western, Spoof, Western Tagged Bob Weinstein, Bruce Dern, Christoph Waltz, Columbia, Columbia Pictures, Dennis Christopher, Don Johnson, Don Stroud, Franco Nero, Harvey Weinstein, James Remar, Jamie Foxx, Johnny Cash, Jonah Hill, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, M.C. Gainey, Michael Parks, Quentin Tarantino, Reginald Hudlin, Russ Tamblyn, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Savini, Tom Wopat, Walton Goggins, Weinstein Company, Zoe Bell

January 4th, 2013: Blind Fury (1989)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Movie of the Day, Remake, Road Trip Tagged blind, casino, corrupt cops, cult, drug dealers, drugs, ex-husband, ex-wife, homage, Las Vegas, Lisa Blount, master swordsman, Meg Foster, Miami, Nick Cassavetes, Noble Willingham, Phillip Noyce, Randall "Tex" Cobb, remake of a foreign film, Rick Overton, Rutger Hauer, samurai swords, Sho Kusugi, stealth remake, sword cane, Terry O'Quinn, Tri-Star

December 31st, 2012: Trading Places (1983)

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Leave a comment Posted in Assumed Identity, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, Movie of the Day Tagged "hooker with a heart of gold", "Not Santa!", "prince and the pauper", Al Franken, before they were famous, Best Music Nominee, bet, Bo Diddley, butler, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Party, Cinema Group, class issues, Dan Aykroyd, Denholm Elliott, Don Ameche, double cross, drugs, Eddie Murphy, Elmer Bernstein, evil businessman, frame up, Frank Oz, Giancarlo Esposito, gorilla suit, gorillas, homeless, industrial espionage, insider trading, it's not over, jail, James Belushi, James Eckhouse, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Landis, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve Party, New York City, Paramount Pictures, Paul Gleason, prostitutes, Ralph Bellamy, Santa Claus, stock broker, Tom Davis, train, Wall Street, WASP, white collar criminals, wise servant

December 17th, 2012: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Event Film, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Screwball Tagged "martial arts", 20th Century Fox, Al "Kabong" Leong, Alan Howarth, brothel, California, card game, Carter Wong, Chinatown, cult, Dean Cundey, demon, Dennis Dun, Donald Li, flop, gambling debts, Gerald Okamura, homage, immigrants, it's not over, James Hong, John Carpenter, kidnapping, Kim Cattrall, Kurt Russell, madame, prostitutes, sacrifice, San Francisco, sorcerer, street gang, Triads, truckers, undead, Victor Wong

November 14th, 2012: She (1982)

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Leave a comment Posted in So-Bad-It's-Good, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Spoof, Adaptation, Remake, Fantasy, Dark Future, Slapstick, Adventure, Movie of the Day, Independent, Sword and Sorcery, Apocalypse, Road Trip, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick Tagged Drive-In, rip-off, cash-in, low-budget, Italy, psychic, mutants, Sandahl Bergman, brothers, gods, telepaths, barbarians, gladiators, Trans World Entertainment

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