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April 1st, 2013: April Fool’s Day (1986)

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2 Comments Posted in Comedy, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Slasher, Spoof, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged Thomas F. Wilson, Paramount Pictures, low-budget, prank gone awry, it's not over, party, island, college students, spoiled rich kids, Deborah Foreman, pranks, Ken Olandt, Amy Steel, Fred Walton, Danilo Bach, Frank Mancuso Jr., Charles Bernstein, Clayton Rohner, ferry, jack-in-the-box

January 21st, 2013: Hugo (2011)

Jan21 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in 3D, Adaptation, Based on a Book, Coming of Age, Computer Animation, Drama, Event Film, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film Tagged Asa Butterfield, automaton, Ben Kingsley, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects, Brian Selznick, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, clockwork, dad bomb, Emily Mortimer, father-son relationship, film history, fire, George Melies, godfather, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, magician, Martin Scorces, orphan, Paramount Pictures, Paris, Ray Winstone, Sacha Baron Cohen, train station, uncle

December 31st, 2012: Trading Places (1983)

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

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)

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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

November 25th, 2012: Play it Again, Sam

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Play, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Romance, Spoof Tagged Diane Keaton, homage, Paramount Pictures, Tony Roberts, Woody Allen

October 30th, 2012: The War of the Worlds (1953)

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Leave a comment Posted in Sci-Fi, Adaptation, Event Film, The Original, Aliens, Movie of the Day, Based on a Radio Show, War with Aliens, Based on a Book Tagged Paramount Pictures, riot, mob, Mars, Best Film Editing Nominee, scientists, Paul Frees, Best Special Effects, H.G. Wells, stock footage, Best Sound Recording Nominee, Air Force, U.S. Army, Cecil B. DeMille, nuclear weapons, Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Treymane, Cedrick Hardwicke, Byron Haskins, George Pal, square dance, Martians, "germs kill the monster", force field

September 21st, 2012: Island of Lost Souls (1932)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Horror, Issue Film, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged animal testing, anthropomorphic animals, before they were famous, Bela Lugosi, Charles Laughton, insanity, island, mad scientist, Paramount Pictures, scientists

September 20th, 2012: A Simple Plan (1998)

Sep20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Crime, Heist, Adaptation, Thriller, Movie of the Day, Based on a Book Tagged Germany, Japan, Billy Bob Thorton, double cross, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, FBI, Paramount Pictures, Toho, Britain, France, BBC Films, small town, farm, airplane, brothers, Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda, Mutual Film Company, murder, "simple" people, Danny Elfman, bank robbers, snow, snowmobile, Sam Raimi, "money is the root of all evil", found money, Brent Briscoe, plane crash, small plane, manipulative woman

September 8th, 2012: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a TV Show, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Space Opera, Space Travel, Swashbuckler Tagged DeForest Kelly, George Takei, James Doohan, James Horner, Kristie Alley, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, Nicholas Meyer, Paramount Pictures, Paul Winfield, revenge, Ricardo Montalban, space exploration, space mining, space station, Star Trek, Walter Koenig, William Shatner

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