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May 17th, 2013: Easy Rider (1969)

May17 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Arthouse, Buddy Flick, Drama, Movie of the Day, Road Trip Tagged Deep South, Dennis Hopper, cameos, Mexico, drugs, hippies, rednecks, Bridget Fonda, Los Angeles, Jack Nicholson, LSD, Toni Basil, cemetery, Karen Black, prostitutes, farmers, brothel, motorcycle, Carrie Snodgress, Laszlo Kovacs, Peter Fonda, Terry Southern, lawyers, Phil Spector, Dan Haggerty, ACLU, cocaine, New Orleans, commune, Mardi Gras

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 children of famous people, Jessica Alba, Mexico, drugs, rape, courtroom scene, doctor, Jesus, murder, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Ian Black, Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, David Wain, Michael Showalter, talent agents, incompetent doctors, Winona Ryder, prison, ex-wife, jealousy, adultery, Rashida Jones, bad animation, Oliver Platt, ventriloquist, Jason Sudeikis, Jon Hamm, bar, The State, Ron Silver, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, Liev Schreiber, Rob Corddry, Bobby Cannavale, ten commandments

April 4th, 2013: The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

Apr4 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Spoof, Horror, Zombies, Mystery, Slasher, Ghost, Killer Dolls, Cults, Killer Kids, Monster, Mad Scientist, Degenerate Hillbillies, Movie of the Day, Satire, Stoner, Werewolves Tagged "spam in a cabin", Amy Acker, archetypes, Bradley Whitford, cabin, children of famous people, Chris Hemsworth, college students, cult leader, cultists, Drew Goddard, drugs, Final Couple, final girl, homage, it's not over, Joss Whedon, mind control, paramilitary group, rednecks, Richard Jenkins, sacrifice, scientists, Sigourney Weaver, stoners, twist

February 12th, 2013: Mitchell (1975)

Feb12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Cops, Crime, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Drive-In, double cross, rip-off, cash-in, grindhouse, low-budget, children of famous people, it's not over, Martin Balsam, mobsters, helicopter, corrupt cops, drug dealers, corrupt politicians, maverick cops, drugs, Allied Artists, murder, maverick, John Saxon, Hoyt Axton, Andrew V. McLaglen, incompetent cops, heroin, Joe Don Baker, Linda Evans, Merlin Olsen, Jerry Hardin, drug smugglers

January 4th, 2013: Blind Fury (1989)

Jan4 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Movie of the Day, Remake, Road Trip Tagged homage, remake of a foreign film, cult, casino, corrupt cops, drug dealers, Rick Overton, samurai swords, drugs, Las Vegas, Tri-Star, blind, Nick Cassavetes, Rutger Hauer, master swordsman, Miami, ex-wife, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Terry O'Quinn, ex-husband, stealth remake, sword cane, Lisa Blount, Sho Kusugi, Phillip Noyce, Noble Willingham, Meg Foster

December 31st, 2012: Trading Places (1983)

Dec31 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Assumed Identity, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, Movie of the Day Tagged double cross, Paramount Pictures, it's not over, before they were famous, New York City, Dan Aykroyd, John Landis, train, Best Music Nominee, Christmas, Denholm Elliott, drugs, Elmer Bernstein, industrial espionage, Paul Gleason, evil businessman, Frank Oz, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Belushi, Giancarlo Esposito, gorilla suit, gorillas, class issues, homeless, butler, wise servant, frame up, Santa Claus, "Not Santa!", Ralph Bellamy, prostitutes, jail, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, Christmas Party, "hooker with a heart of gold", Cinema Group, WASP, James Eckhouse, Bo Diddley, Al Franken, Tom Davis, Eddie Murphy, Don Ameche, Wall Street, bet, "prince and the pauper", stock broker, insider trading, white collar criminals, New Year's Eve Party

The Stabilizer

Oct7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Independent, Quick Reviews, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Bad Dubbing, cash-in, double cross, drug dealers, drugs, gimmick weapon, Golden Triangle, heroin, Indonesia, kidnapping, low-budget, quotably bad dialogue, revenge, rip-off, scientists, Troma

August 24th, 2012: American Gangster (2007)

Aug24 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Magazine Article, Cops, Crime, Gangster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, True Crime Tagged Armand Assante, Best Art Direction Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, brothers, Carla Gugino, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Clarence Williams III, Common, corrupt cops, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denzel Washington, drug addict, drug dealers, drugs, heroin, Idris Elba, Imagine Entertainment, John Hawkes, Jon Polito, Josh Brolin, Kevin Corrigan, maverick, maverick cops, mobsters, mother-son relationship, New York City, Nicholas Pileggi, Relativity Media, Ridley Scott, rise and fall, Ruby Dee, Russell Crowe, RZA, Ted Levine, Universal Pictures, Vietnam, Vietnam veterans

August 23rd, 2012: Viva Knievel! (1977)

Aug23 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Crime, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Sports Tagged alcoholic, as himself, Cameron Mitchell, cash-in, Dabney Coleman, Drive-In, drug dealers, drugs, Estranged parent, Evel Knievel, father, father-son relationship, Frank Gifford, Gene Kelly, lady reporter, Lauren Hutton, Marjoe Gortner, Mexico, Red Buttons, reporter, The Border, the declining years, vanity project, Warner Brothers

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

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