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April 29th, 2013: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Apr29 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Drama, Arthouse, "Foreign Film", Romance, Comedy, Movie of the Day Tagged arranged marriage, before they were famous, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Britain, Channel Four Films, class issues, Daniel Day-Lewis, immigrants, laundromat, mistress, Pakistanis, poverty, racism, racists, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Shirley Anne Field, Stephen Frears, Stephen Marcus, Working Title Films

February 17th, 2013: Slaughter (1972)

Feb17 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Buddy Flick, Crime, Movie of the Day, Revenge, The Original Tagged AIP, casino, Don Gordon, double cross, Drive-In, funk soundtrack, Green Beret, grindhouse, handball, Jim Brown, MacGuffin, Mafia, Marlene Clark, maverick, Mexico, mobsters, racism, racist cops, racists, revenge, Rip Torn, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Stella Stevens, T-Men, veteran, Vietnam veterans

August 17th, 2012: A Bronx Tale (1993)

Aug17 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Period Film, Drama, Crime, Adaptation, Coming of Age, Based on a Play, Movie of the Day, Independent, Gangster Tagged actor turned director, apprentice/mentor relationship, arson, bikers, bus driver, Chazz Palminteri, father-son relationship, Joe Pesci, juvenile delinquent, Mafia, mobsters, Molotov cocktails, murder, New York City, racial violence, racism, racists, reluctant witness, Robert De Niro, teens, The Bronx, Tribeca Productions

June 23rd, 2012: Murder by Death (1976)

Jun23 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Detective, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, Spoof, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged Alec Guinness, Asian Face, before they were famous, Columbia Pictures, David Niven, double cross, Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lanchester, ethnic stereotype, James Coco, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, Neil Simon, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, racism, Truman Capote

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 22nd, 2012: The Intruder aka I Hate Your Guts! aka Shame (1962)

Mar22 by professormortis

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3 Comments Posted in Black and White, Drama, Independent, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, Political Thriller, Thriller Tagged attempted lynching, before they were famous, Charles Beaumont, Civil Rights, Deep South, Drive-In, Gene Corman, high school, integration, low-budget, mob, newspaper, principal, racism, racists, Roger Corman, Roger Corman Productions, salesman, William Shatner

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

February 3rd, 2012: South Pacific (1958)

Feb3 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Based on a Play, Event Film, Guerrillas, May-September, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance, Special Operations, Suicide Mission, The Original, War Movies Tagged 20th Century Fox, before they were famous, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture Nominee, Best Sound, black market, Doug McClure, forbidden love, island, James Michener, John Kerr, Joshua Logan, Mitzi Gaynor, operator, Oscar Hammerstein II, Pacific, plantation, racism, Ray Walston, Richard Rogers, Ron Ely, sailors, Tom Laughlin, U.S. Navy, World War Two

January 22nd, 2012: Zulu Dawn

Jan22 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Campaign History, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Prequel, Tragedy, War Movies Tagged Bob Hoskins, Britain, Burt Lancaster, Cy Enfield, Denholm Elliott, Douglas Hickox, Elmer Bernstein, Freddie Jones, incompetent officers, massacre, Netherlands, outnumbered, Peter O' Toole, Peter Vaughn, racism, racists, Simon Ward, South Africa, Zulu War

November 17th, 2011: Taxi Driver (1976)

Nov17 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, Thriller Tagged Albert Brooks, Best Actor Nominee, Best Music Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, cab driver, character study, Columbia Pictures, Cybill Shepard, grindhouse, Harry Northup, Harvey Keitel, insanity, it's not over, Jodie Foster, Joe Spinell, low-budget, Martin Scorcese, New York City, Paul Schrader, Peter Boyle, pimp, prostitutes, racism, racists, Robert De Niro, teens, vigilantes

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