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April 6th, 2013: The Ten (2007)

Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Anthology, Comedy, Computer Animation, Independent, Movie of the Day, Satire, Screwball, Sketch, Slapstick, Stoner 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

February 16th, 2013: The Mummy (1999)

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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

January 18th, 2013: The Philadelphia Story (1940)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Play, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball Tagged alcoholic, Best Actor, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Cary Grant, class issues, comedic alcoholic, divorcee, ex-husband, ex-wife, Franz Waxman, George Cukor, interrupted wedding, James Stewart, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Katharine Hepburn, lady reporter, Loew's, MGM, National Film Registry, photographer, publisher, reporter, wedding, wedding night

January 8th, 2013: (500) Days of Summer

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Indy, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball, Workplace Tagged Clark Gregg, Fox Searchlight, hipsters, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, karaoke, mix-tape soundtrack, MPDG, musical interlude, non-linear timeline, Zooey Deschanel

December 24th, 2012: The Apartment (1960)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball, Workplace Tagged adultery, affair, attempted suicide, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture, Best Sound Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Billy Wilder, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Fred MacMurray, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, New Year's Eve, Ray Walston, Shirley MacLaine, The Mirisch Corporation, United Artists

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

December 15th, 2012: The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Comedy, Crime, Movie of the Day, Screwball, Western Tagged Bill Bixby, Buddy Baker, Don Knotts, Don Tait, Harry Morgan, Jack Bickham, Norman Tokar, Slim Pickens, Susan Clark, Tim Conway

December 4th, 2012: Mars Attacks! (1996)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Aliens, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Screwball, War with Aliens Tagged Annette Bening, Barbet Schroeder, Brandon Hammond, Brian Haley, Christina Applegate, Danny DeVito, Danny Elfman, Frank Welker, Glenn Close, Jack Black, Jack Nicholson, Janice Rivera, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jim Brown, Joe Don Baker, Jonathan Gems, Lisa Marie, Lukas Haas, Martin Short, Michael J. Fox, Natalie Portman, O-Lan Jones, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Pierce Brosnan, Ray J, Rod Steiger, Sarah Jessica Parker, Saturn Award - Best Music, Sylvia Sidney, Tim Burton, Tom Jones

October 12th, 2012: I Married a Witch

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball, The Original, Witches Tagged "lightning ressurects the dead", Best Score Nominee, burned at the stake, Cecil Kellaway, cranky ghost, curse, family curse, father, father-daugther relationship, fiance, flashback, Frederic March, interrupted wedding, light, love potion, love triangle, politician, Preston Sturges, Puritans, Rene Clair, Salem, Salem Witch Trials, shrew, United Artists, Veronica Lake, wedding, wedding night, witch

September 25th, 2012: His Girl Friday

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Black and White, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Remake, Romance, Screwball, Workplace Tagged asshole reporter, Ben Hecht, Cary Grant, Columbia Pictures, corrupt cops, corrupt politicians, ex-husband, ex-wife, falsely accused, Howard Hawks, interrupted execution, it's not over, John Qualen, lady reporter, National Film Registry, newspaper, pardon, Ralph Bellamy, reporter, Rosalind Russell

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