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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 ACLU, Bridget Fonda, brothel, cameos, Carrie Snodgress, cemetery, cocaine, commune, Dan Haggerty, Deep South, Dennis Hopper, drugs, farmers, hippies, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Laszlo Kovacs, lawyers, Los Angeles, LSD, Mardi Gras, Mexico, motorcycle, New Orleans, Peter Fonda, Phil Spector, prostitutes, rednecks, Terry Southern, Toni Basil

March 27th, 2013: Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Mar27 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Crime, Heist, Independent, Indy, Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged before they were famous, cops, diamond heist, diner, double cross, Edward Bunker, Harvey Keitel, Laurence Tierney, Los Angeles, Michael Madsen, Miramax, mix-tape soundtrack, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Steve Buscemi, Steven Wright, the declining years, Tim Roth, torture, undercover

March 20th, 2013: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

Mar20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Crime, Detective, Redubbed, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Alan Ladd, archival footage, Ava Gardner, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Brian Donlevy, Burt Lancaster, Carl Reiner, Cary Grant, Charles Laughton, conspiracy, detective, Edith Head, Edmond O'Brien, Fred MacMurray, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, James Cagney, Jeff Corey, Joan Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Los Angeles, Miklós Rózsa, Nazis, Rachel Ward, Ray Milland, Reni Santori, scientists, South America, spies, Steve Martin, Veronica Lake, Vincent Price, William Conrad

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

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

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

February 18th, 2012: Grease (1978)

Feb18 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Comedy, Coming of Age, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance, The Original Tagged 1950s, adults playing teens, coach, Didi Conn, drag race, Edd Byrnes, Eddie Deezen, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, greasers, high school, Jeff Conaway, Joan Blondell, John Travolta, juvenile delinquent, Lorenzo Lamas, Los Angeles, Los Angeles sewers, Michael Biehn, nostalgia, Oliva Newton-John, Paramount Pictures, Robert Stigwood Organization, Sha-Na-Na, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing, teens, Wendie Jo Sperber

February 17th, 2012: Three the Hard Way (1974)

Feb17 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Buddy Flick, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Alex Rocco, Allied Artists, arcade, Bob Minor, California, conspiracy, Corbin Bernsen, Detroit, Drive-In, Fred Williamson, Gordon Parks Jr., grindhouse, Hal Needham, Jay Robinson, Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, Los Angeles, low-budget, Lucien Ballard, mastermind, Neo-Nazis, prostitutes, racism, racist cops, racists, scientists, The Impressions, Washington D.C., white supremecists

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