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May 12th, 2013: Saving Private Perez

Leave a comment Posted in Action, War Movies, Crime, Comedy, Spoof, Fish-Out-of-Water, Slapstick, Adventure, Movie of the Day, Independent, Gangster, Special Operations, Suicide Mission Tagged hostage, Guerrillas, hit man, low-budget, Mexico, drug dealers, brothers, mother, machetes, younger brother, The Marines, U.S. Army, rescue mission, narcos, drug smuggler, Iraq, childhood friend

Saving Private Perez

Apr8 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, War Movies, Comedy, Spoof, Fish-Out-of-Water, Slapstick, Independent, Gangster, Special Operations, Full Reviews, Reviews Tagged hostage, Guerrillas, hit man, low-budget, Mexico, drug dealers, brothers, mother, machetes, younger brother, The Marines, U.S. Army, rescue mission, narcos, drug smuggler, Iraq, childhood friend

March 29th, 2013: The Green Slime

Mar29 by professormortis

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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 28th, 2013: Pan’s Labyrinth

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1 Comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Coming of Age, Drama, Fantasy, Guerrillas, Monster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, War Movies Tagged Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Picture Nominee, Best Makeup, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, co-production, Doug Jones, dream worlds, evil stepfather, fairy, fairy tale, faun, Guillermo Del Toro, labyrinth, Mexico, pregnancy, Spain, Spanish Civil War, stepfather, tyrannical officer

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

Mar25 by professormortis

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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

March 24th, 2013: The Great Escape (1963)

Mar24 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, P.O.W., Period Film, Prison, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Film Editing Nominee, blind, Charles Bronson, claustrophobia, David McCallum, Donald Pleasence, Elmer Bernstein, James Coburn, James Garner, John Sturges, motorcycle, Nazis, Nigel Stock, pilots, prison, prison break, Richard Attenborough, solitary, Steve McQueen, The Mirisch Corporation, tunnel, World War Two

March 10th, 2013: Grave of the Fireflies

Mar10 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Animation, Anime, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day, War Movies Tagged bombing, homefront, horrors of war, Japan, Studio Ghibli, World War Two

February 5th, 2013: Tight Little Island aka Whiskey Galore

Feb5 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Comedy, Homefront, Movie of the Day, Period Film, War Movies Tagged alcoholic, Britain, comedic alcoholic, Ealing Studios, Home Guard, Scotland, shipwrecks, whiskey, World War Two

January 25th, 2013: Battleground (1949)

Jan25 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Black and White, Campaign History, Movie of the Day, War Movies Tagged 101st Airborne, Battle of the Bulge, Best Cinematography, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, German Army, James Arness, James Whitmore, MGM, Nazis, Ricardo Montalban, snow, U.S. Army, Van Johnson, William A. Wellman, winter, World War Two

January 23rd, 2013: Zulu

Jan23 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies Tagged Britain, Jack Hawkins, Michael Caine, Patrick Magee, Stanley Baker, Zulu War

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