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May 4th, 2013: Frost/Nixon (2008)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Play, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged behind the scenes, Best Actor Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Clint Howard, double cross, former child stars, Frank Langella, Hans Zimmer, Imagine Entertainment, interview, Kevin Bacon, less famous parents, less famous siblings, Michael Sheen, Oliver Platt, Oscar bait, Patty McCormack, President of the United States, Rance Howard, Relativity Media, Richard Nixon, Ron Howard, Sam Rockwell, Studio Canal, Toby Jones, Universal Pictures, Working Title Films

Vamp (1986)

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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

April 14th, 2012: The Beast of War aka The Beast (1988)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Play, Guerrillas, Independent, Movie of the Day, War Movies Tagged Afghanistan, before they were famous, behind enemy lines, captured by the enemy, doomed expedition, Erick Avari, George Dzundza, horrors of war, insanity, Israel, Jason Patric, Kevin Reynolds, left to die, less famous siblings, massacre, noble enemy, revenge, Soviet Union, Stephen Baldwin, tank, translator, tyrannical officer, Vietnam allegory, village, war is hell, World War Two Veterans

October 16th, 2011: Beginning of the End (1957)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "this enormous X could feed the world", bad special effects, Bert I. Gordon, cash-in, Drive-In, farm, lady reporter, less famous siblings, low-budget, Morris Ankrum, Peter Graves, reporter, rip-off, scientists, stock footage, The Marines

September 30th, 2011: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Comic Book, Comedy, Coming of Age, Movie of the Day, Romance, Superheroes Tagged Allison Pill, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, based on a comic book, Bill Hader, Brandon Routh, Chris Evans, Clifton Collins Jr., comic books, designated hero, Edgar Wright, homage, Jason Schwartzman, Johnny Simmons, Kieran Culkin, less famous siblings, Mark Webber, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Cera, MPDG, musical interlude, musicians, Thomas Jane, Universal Pictures, video games

September 11th, 2011: Invasion U.S.A. (1985)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Event Film, Guerrillas, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Revenge, So-Bad-It's-Good, Special Operations, War Movies Tagged "I'm Done Killing", "They Wouldn't Let Me Do What Needed to Be Done", Aaron Norris, Alexander Zale, because its in the script nemesis, Billy Drago, black ops, boat people, Cannon, Christmas, Chuck Norris, Cold War, Cuba, Cubans, drug deal gone bad, drug dealers, hero rage, hostage situation, jingoism, Joseph Zito, less famous siblings, low-budget, maverick, Melissa Prophet, Menahem Golan, one man army, pushed too far, refugees, retired special ops, Richard Lynch, Soviet Union, spineless bureacrats, terrorists, U.S.A.!U.S.A.!, Yoram Globus

September 9th, 2011: Airport 1975

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Leave a comment Posted in So-Bad-It's-Good, Adaptation, Event Film, Sequel, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Disaster, Based on a Book, Airplanes Tagged "Can Anyone Fly a Plane?", airplane, Arthur Hailey, Austin Stoker, Beverly Garland, Charlton Heston, children of famous people, Conrad Janis, Dana Andrews, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Erik Estrada, George Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Guy Stockwell, Helen Reddy, Jack Smight, Jerry Stiller, Karen Black, Kip Niven, Larry Storch, less famous siblings, Linda Blair, Linda Harrison, mid-air colision, musical interlude, Myrna Loy, Nancy Olsen, Norman Fell, Roy Thinnes, Sid Caesar, Universal Pictures

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