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Category Archives: Event Film

June 16th, 2013: Son of Godzilla

Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Family, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "Beauty Tames the Beast", "Son of", "This Lost World is Gonna Blow!", Akihiko Hirata, Akiro Kubo, asshole reporter, Big Damn Spider, Eiji Tsuburaya, father, father-son relationship, Godzilla, Godzooky, insanity, island, Japan, Jun Fukuda, jungle, jungle girl, Kenji Sahara, mantis, Masaru Sato, Minilla, parachute jump, poison, remote island, reporter, Science!, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, spiders, Tadao Takashima, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, weather control, webs

June 6th, 2013: Saving Private Ryan

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Special Operations, War Movies Tagged Adam Goldberg, Amblin Entertainment, Barry Pepper, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Makeup Nominee, Best Music Nominee, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Dennis Farina, Dreamworks, Edward Burns, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, John Williams, Mutual Film Company, Nathan Fillion, Paramount Pictures, Paul Giamatti, Steven Spielberg, Ted Danson, Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Vin Diesel, World War Two

June 4th, 2013: Up (2009)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Animation, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Computer Animation, Drama, Event Film, Family, Fantasy, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Road Trip Tagged "I won't sell", "old person taught to love again", balloons, biplane, birds, Boy Scout, Christopher Plummer, Delroy Lindo, Disney, dogs, Ed Asner, explorers, idol, John Ratzenberger, living fossil, living legend, old men, old pictures, Pixar, stowaway, talking animals, widower, Zepplin

May 28th, 2013: You Only Live Twice (1967)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Espionage, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Space Travel Tagged Akiko Wakabayashi, Albert R. Broccoli, Anthony Ainley, assassin, astronauts, bad makeup, Bernard Lee, Blofeld, Britain, Burt Kwouk, Charles Gray, Cold War, Desmond Llewelyn, Donald Pleasence, Eon Productions, femme fatale, fishermen, fishing boat, gimmick weapon, gyrocopter, gyrojets, Harry Saltzman, helicopter, hijacking, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Japan, John Barry, Karin Dor, Lois Maxwell, magnets, MI5, Mie Hama, ninja, nuclear war, poison, Roald Dahl, samurai swords, scientists, Sean Connery, Soviet Union, space hijacking, space race, sumo wrestling, undercover, United Artists, volcano, wedding

May 16th, 2013: Desperado (1995)

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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 7th, 2013: Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster

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Leave a comment Posted in Superheroes, Sci-Fi, Crime, Cops, Event Film, Sequel, Kaiju, Aliens, Movie of the Day, Disaster, Giant Insects, Dinosaurs, Hit Man Tagged Bad Dubbing, Japan, Toho, assassin, scientists, airplane, reporter, Eiji Tsuburaya, Akira Ifukube, Rodan, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Sekizawa, Godzilla, Ghidorah, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Wakabayashi, fishermen, Cassandra, prophecy, quotably bad dialogue, Tomoyuki Tanaka, lady reporter, princess, assassination attempt, cops, mountains, music summons the monster, plane crash, Mothra, Emi Ito, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi, Yosuke Natsuki, alien warning, alien possession, TV show, model airplane, hanging from a cliff, shock treatment, power outage

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

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Leave a comment Posted in Period Film, Comedy, Adaptation, Event Film, Family, The Original, Movie of the Day, Musical, Con, Assumed Identity, Based on a Musical 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

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

March 29th, 2013: The Green Slime

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Blobs, Disaster, Event Film, Horror, Last Stand, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged any part of the monster becomes another monster, asteroid, Australia, Bill Finger, co-production, Drive-In, fast reproducing monsters, goofy monster suit, Japan, Kinji Fukasaku, Luciana Paluzzi, MGM, models, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Dunham, scientists, space exploration, space station, the declining years, Toei Company

March 25th, 2013: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Computer Animation, Epic, Event Film, Fantasy, Ghost, Last Stand, Monster, Movie of the Day, Remake, Road Trip, Sequel, Sword and Sorcery, War Movies Tagged Andy Serkis, Annie Lenox, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, Best Original Song, Best Picture, Best Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects, Billy Boyd, Bob Weinstein, Brad Dourif, Bruce Spence, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, curse, cursed objects, Dominic Monaghan, dwarves, Elijah Wood, elves, Fran Walsh, Harvey Weinstein, Hobbits, Howard Shore, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, insanity, John Rhys-Davies, JRR Tolkien, Karl Urban, Liv Tyler, Lord of the Rings, mastermind, Miranda Otto, New Line Cinema, New Zealand, orcs, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, prophecy, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, self immolation, sorcerer, under siege, Viggo Mortensen, Wing-Nut Productions, wizards

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