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May 20th, 2013: The House that Dripped Blood

Leave a comment Posted in Anthology, Comedy, Horror, Movie of the Day, Spoof, Vampires, Wax Museum, Witches Tagged abandoned house, Amicus, Britain, Christopher Lee, cops, cursed objects, Denholm Elliott, father-daugther relationship, film within a film, filmmaking, Ingrid Pitt, it's not over, Joanna Lumley, Jon Pertwee, Joss Ackland, low-budget, overbearing father, Peter Cushing, Scotland Yard, twist, writer

May 12th, 2013: Saving Private Perez

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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

May 10th, 2013: Mary Poppins (1964)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Book, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film Tagged "England", Alan Napier, annoying children, Arthur Malet, bank, banker, before they were famous, Best Actress, Best Adapted Score Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Effects Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, chimney sweep, comedic working class, David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke, Disney, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester, feminist, Glynis Johns, Jane Darwell, Julie Andrews, live action combined with animation, Marnie Nixon, nanny, suffragettes, terrible accent, Walt Disney

April 29th, 2013: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Comedy, Drama, Movie of the Day, Romance Tagged arranged marriage, before they were famous, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Britain, Channel Four Films, class issues, Daniel Day-Lewis, immigrants, laundromat, mistress, Pakistanis, poverty, racism, racists, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Shirley Anne Field, Stephen Frears, Stephen Marcus, Working Title Films

April 20th, 2013: Breaking Away (1979)

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Coming of Age, Drama, Movie of the Day, Sports Tagged 20th Century Fox, Best Director Nominee, Best Music Nominee, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, bicycle race, blue collar, classical music, college, cycling, Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Hart Bochner, Indiana, it's not over, Jackie Earle Hayley, John Ashton, Little 500, P.J. Soles, Paul Dooley, Peter Yates, quarries, serenade, snobs vs. slobs, teens, used car salesman

April 14th, 2013: The Music Man (1962)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Musical, Comedy, Con, Event Film, Family, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, The Original Tagged before they were famous, Best Adapted Score, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Buddy Hackett, con artist, Hank Worden, Hermione Gingold, librarian, library, marching band, Meredith Wilson, parade, pool, pool hall, Rance Howard, Robert Preston, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, small town, train, turn of the century, Warner Brothers

Saving Private Perez

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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

April 7th, 2013: Easter Parade (1948)

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Event Film, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, May-September, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance Tagged "There's No Business Like Show Business", Albert Hackett, Ann Miller, Arthur Freed, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Broadway, dance, dancers, Frances Goodrich, Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin, Judy Garland, Jules Munshin, Loew's, love triangle, make-over, MGM, New York City, Peter Lawford, pygmalion, shopping for clothes, Ziegfeld Follies

April 6th, 2013: The Ten (2007)

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Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Comedy, Screwball, Anthology, Slapstick, Computer Animation, Movie of the Day, Independent, Satire, Stoner, Sketch Tagged children of famous people, Jessica Alba, Mexico, drugs, rape, courtroom scene, doctor, Jesus, murder, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Ian Black, Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, David Wain, Michael Showalter, talent agents, incompetent doctors, Winona Ryder, prison, ex-wife, jealousy, adultery, Rashida Jones, bad animation, Oliver Platt, ventriloquist, Jason Sudeikis, Jon Hamm, bar, The State, Ron Silver, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, Liev Schreiber, Rob Corddry, Bobby Cannavale, ten commandments

April 4th, 2013: The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Cults, Degenerate Hillbillies, Ghost, Horror, Killer Dolls, Killer Kids, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Satire, Slasher, Spoof, Stoner, Werewolves, Zombies Tagged "spam in a cabin", Amy Acker, archetypes, Bradley Whitford, cabin, children of famous people, Chris Hemsworth, college students, cult leader, cultists, Drew Goddard, drugs, Final Couple, final girl, homage, it's not over, Joss Whedon, mind control, paramilitary group, rednecks, Richard Jenkins, sacrifice, scientists, Sigourney Weaver, stoners, twist

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