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May 12th, 2013: Saving Private Perez

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

April 6th, 2013: The Ten (2007)

Apr6 by professormortis

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

March 20th, 2013: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

Mar20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Crime, Detective, Redubbed, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Alan Ladd, archival footage, Ava Gardner, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Brian Donlevy, Burt Lancaster, Carl Reiner, Cary Grant, Charles Laughton, conspiracy, detective, Edith Head, Edmond O'Brien, Fred MacMurray, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, James Cagney, Jeff Corey, Joan Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Los Angeles, Miklós Rózsa, Nazis, Rachel Ward, Ray Milland, Reni Santori, scientists, South America, spies, Steve Martin, Veronica Lake, Vincent Price, William Conrad

February 22nd, 2013: Rabbit Seasoning (1952)

Feb22 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Comedy, Family, Movie of the Day, Short, Slapstick Tagged Carl W. Stalling, Chuck Jones, cross dressing, double cross, hunters, Looney Tunes, Mel Blanc, Warner Brothers

February 16th, 2013: The Mummy (1999)

Feb16 by professormortis

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

February 2nd, 2013: Groundhog Day

Feb2 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Romance, Slapstick Tagged Andie MacDowell, Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, Chris Elliot, Columbia Pictures, Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, it's not over, National Film Registry, Rick Overton, Stephen Tobolowsky

Django Unchained

Jan9 by professormortis

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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

December 25th, 2012: Babes in Toyland aka March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)

Dec25 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Black and White, Comedy, Fairy Tale, Family, Fantasy, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Musical, Slapstick Tagged boogeyman, fairy tale, Hal Roach, Hal Roach Studios, Henry Brandon, MGM, Mickey Mouse, monkey, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, toy soldiers, toys, toys as weapons, Zepplin

November 23rd, 2012: Big Business (1929)

Nov23 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Movember, Movie of the Day, Short, Silent, Slapstick Tagged Christmas tree, comedy team, Hal Roach, Hal Roach Studios, Laurel and Hardy, Leo McCarey, National Film Registry, Oliver Hardy, salesman, Stan Laurel

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