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Saving Private Perez

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

Ministry of Vengeance

Mar2 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Espionage, Full Reviews, Independent, Revenge, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Good, Thriller Tagged "I'm Done Fighting", airport, attempted rape, cash-in, child death, Concorde Pictures, double cross, flashback, George Kennedy, hard ass seargant, hostage, Italy, James Tolkan, John Schneider, last stand, Lebanon, low-budget, Middle East, military training, minister, Ned Beatty, post traumatic stress disorder, pushed too far, Rome, terrorists, the declining years, torture, training sequence, TV actors, twist, under siege, Vietnam, Vietnam veterans, Yaphet Kotto

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

Up Tight!

Jan5 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Crime, Drama, Full Reviews, Independent, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, Remake, Reviews, Tragedy Tagged alcoholic, betrayal, Booker T and the MGs, Civil Rights, Cleveland, Dick Anthony Williams, Frank Silvera, housing project, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Juanita Moore, Jules Dassin, Julian Mayfield, Martin Luther King assassination, Max Julien, militants, paramilitary group, prostitutes, racist cops, racists, Raymond St. Jacques, revolution, revolutionaries, Robert DoQui, Ruby Dee, stilted dialogue, Time is Tight

Vamp (1986)

Sep14 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Buddy Flick, College, Comedy, Full Reviews, Horror, Independent, Reviews, Road Trip, Vampires Tagged "kill it with fire", albinos, Billy Drago, cash-in, Chris Makepeace, Deedee Pfieffer, elevator, elevator operator, fire, fraternity, Gedde Wantanabe, Grace Jones, homage, Kansas, kid vampire, less famous siblings, low-budget, Molotov cocktails, nerds, New World Pictures, Oklahoma City, operator, rip-off, Robert Rusler, sexy vampires, street gang, strip club, stripper with a heart of gold, sunlight kills, unfriendly locals, yuppies

Invisible Invaders (1959)

Sep3 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Aliens, Apocalypse, Black and White, Disaster, Full Reviews, Horror, Independent, Reviews, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, War with Aliens, Zombies Tagged Air Force, alien ultimatum, aliens against the bomb, aliens possessing the dead, bad narration, bunker, Drive-In, Edward L. Cahn, intelligent zombies, John Agar, John Carradine, low-budget, narration, philip tonge, radiation, Robert E. Kent Productions, robert hutton, scientists, sound as weapon, stock footage, tool using zombies

The Iron Lady (2011)

Aug2 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Biopic, Drama, Full Reviews, Reviews Tagged "Old Person Looks Back", Anthony Head, Best Actress, Best Makeup, Britain, Canal+, dementia, Falklands, Film Four, flashback, Jim Broadbent, Meryl Streep, Michael Cochrane, Olivia Colman, Oscar bait, Pathe, Prestige Picture, Richard E. Grant, Thomas Newman, UK Film Council

Alligator (1980)

Jul25 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Animals Attack, Based on an Urban Legend, Cops, Disaster, Ecological Disaster, Event Film, Full Reviews, Giant Animals, Great White Hunter, Horror, Independent, Kaiju, Monster, Reviews Tagged 1968 Democratic Convention, alligator, alligator wrestling, balding, before they were famous, bomb defusing scene, cash-in, Chicago, cops, cult, Dean Jagger, Drive-In, evil businessman, father-daugther relationship, growth hormones, Henry Silva, it's not over, Jack Carter, John Sayles, Lewis Teague, Los Angeles sewers, low-budget, mad bomber, mad scientist, maverick cops, mother-daugther relationship, National Guard, overbearing father, overbearing mother, Perry Lang, Robert Forster, Robin Riker, scientists, sewer lair, sewers, survivor's guilt, SWAT, Sydney Lassick, wedding

Konga (1961)

May12 by professormortis

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5 Comments Posted in Full Reviews, Giant Apes, Horror, Kaiju, Mad Scientist, Revenge, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Bad Tagged botanist, Britain, carnivorous plants, cash-in, chimpanzees, college, college students, embiggened, gorilla suit, Merton Park Studios, Michael Gough, rip-off, teacher's pet

It Came From Kuchar

Apr3 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Documentary, Full Reviews, Independent, Indy, Reviews, Short Tagged 8mm, brothers, California, film clips, film history, filmmaking, George Kuchar, homage, insanity, low-budget, Mike Kuchar, New York City, outsider artist, San Francisco, The Bronx, twins, underground films

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