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December 22nd, 2012: The Day of the Locust (1975)

Dec22 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Tragedy Tagged "simple" people, annoying children, behind the scenes, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Billy Barty, Bo Hopkins, brothel, Burgess Meredith, California, child killer, cock fight, cuckold, Dennis Dugan, Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Page, Great Depression, hallucinations, Hollywood, insanity, Jackie Earle Haley, John Hillerman, Karen Black, Los Angeles, mob, Nathaneal West, Paramount Pictures, Pepe Serna, prostitutes, Richard Dysart, riot, travelling salesman, Vaudville, William Atherton, William Castle

December 20th, 2012: Zodiac (2007)

Dec20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Book, Cops, Crime, Drama, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film, Serial Killer, Thriller, True Crime Tagged Anthony Edwards, asshole reporter, Brian Cox, California, Candy Clark, children of famous people, cops, David Fincher, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue, Elias Koteas, insanity, Ione Skye, it's not over, Jake Gyllenhaal, James LeGros, John Carroll Lynch, John Terry, Mark Ruffalo, maverick cops, murder, newspaper, Paramount Pictures, Phillip Baker Hall, red herring, reporter, Robert Downey Jr., San Francisco, serial killer, threatening letters, Warner Brothers

December 17th, 2012: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Dec17 by professormortis

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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

September 6th, 2012: It Came From Kuchar

Sep6 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Documentary, Independent, Indy, Movie of the Day 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

August 6th, 2012: The Big Lebowski (1998)

Aug6 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Crime, Detective, Fish-Out-of-Water, Indy, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Slapstick, Spoof, Stoner Tagged Aimee Mann, art, artists, Ben Gazzara, bowling, California, Carter Burwell, David Huddleston, dream sequence, Ethan Coen, film within a film, Flea, Jeff Bridges, Joel Coen, John Goodman, John Turturro, Jon Polito, Julianne Moore, Kenny Rogers, kidnapping, Los Angeles, mix-tape soundtrack, nihilists, Peter Stormare, Philip Seymour Hoffman, PolyGram, porn, porn stars, ransom, Roger Deakins, Sam Elliot, sex offender, Steve Buscemi, stoners, Tara Reid, Vietnam veterans, Working Title Films

July 22nd, 2012: The Limey

Jul22 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Crime, Indy, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Revenge Tagged Artisan Entertainment, Barry Newman, Bill Duke, California, Cockney slang, daughter, double cross, drug dealers, drugs, ex-con, father, father-daugther relationship, Lesley Ann Warren, Los Angeles, Luis Guzman, Nicky Katt, Peter Fonda, record industry, sins of the father, Steven Soderbergh, Terence Stamp

June 20th, 2012: Black Gunn

Jun20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Heist, Movie of the Day, Revenge Tagged "rip off the mob", Bernie Casey, Bruce Glover, California, cash-in, Columbia, Drive-In, grindhouse, Herb Jefferson Jr., Jim Brown, Los Angeles, Luciana Paluzzi, Mafia, Martin Landau, militants, mobsters, night club, racism, racists, revolutionaries

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

March 31st, 2012: Showdown in Little Tokyo

Mar31 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Cops, Crime, DTV, Movie of the Day, Revenge, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "Fear of a Japanese Planet", Al "Kabong" Leong, Brandon Lee, California, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, children of famous people, code of honor, decapitation, Dolph Lundgren, drug dealers, ethnic enclave, gang conference, Gerald Okamura, homoerotic subtext, Ice, impotent villain, Los Angeles, Mark L. Lester, maverick cops, motorcycle gang, mustache twirling, parade, samurai swords, scar, Tia Carrere, torture, Warner Brothers, Yakuza

March 21st, 2012: So I Married an Axe Murderer

Mar21 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Cops, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Romance, Serial Killer, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged Alan Arkin, Alcatraz, Amanda Plummer, Anthony LaPaglia, axe murders, bad poetry, California, cameos, Charles Grodin, coffee shop, Debi Mazar, interrupted wedding, Michael Richards, Mike Hagerty, Mike Myers, Nancy Myers, Phil Hartman, poet, San Francisco, Scots, Steven Wright, tabloids, Tri-Star, wedding, wedding night, World Poetry Day

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