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November 24, 2014: Highlander (1986)

Nov24 by iggyfh

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Based on a TV Show, Epic, Fantasy, Fight Film, Movie of the Day, Swashbuckler, Sword and Sorcery Tagged bad accents, Christopher Lambert, Clancy Brown, Freddie Mercury, Kurgan, MacLeod, Queen, Scotland, Sean Connery, sword duels, there can be only one, who wants to live forever

October 3rd, 2014: Chôjikû Yôsai Macross: Ai Oboeteimasuka aka SDF-1 Macross: Do You Remember Love? aka Macross: The Movie aka Macross in Clash of the Bionoids

Oct3 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Aliens, Animation, Anime, Based on a TV Show, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Remake, Romance, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, War Movies, War Soap Opera, War with Aliens Tagged alcoholic, Bad Dubbing, cash-in, clones, Japan, love triangle, Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS), mecha, music calms the savage beast, musical interlude, protoculture, quotably bad dialogue, singer, space cannon, spaceship crash, stilted dialogue, transformable robot, war of the sexes

October 2nd, 2014: Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986)

Oct2 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Animation, Arthouse, Based on a Comic Strip, Based on a TV Show, Black and White, Comedy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Short, Slapstick, Spoof, Student Film Tagged before they were famous, bounty hunters, Charlie Brown, double cross, gore, homage, insanity, low-budget, pushed too far

December 29, 2013: The Saint (1997)

Dec29 by bellabone

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3 Comments Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Book, Based on a TV Show, Chase, Con, Crime, Espionage, Heist, Movie of the Day, Remake, Romance Tagged alias, assumed identity, Boston, Christian Science, Elizabeth Shue, fusion, Leslie Charteris, Mark Twain, Moscow, nineties, oligarchs, Phillip Noyce, Roger Moore, Russian gangsters, saints, Science!, Simon Templar, Val Kilmer

December 27th, 2013: Denjin Zaborgar aka Karate-Robo Zaborger

Dec27 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a TV Show, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Robots, Sci-Fi, Spoof, Superheroes, Tokatsu Tagged "...years later...", bad taste, brothers, cops, corrupt politicians, cyborg, father-daughter relationship, father-son relationship, giant robot, goofy monster suit, gore, Hiroyuki Wantanabe, homage, Japan, karate, motorcycle, Naoto Takenaka, Nikkatsu, Noboru Iguchi, scientists, sins of the father, transformable robot, twins

July 2nd, 2013: Zero Hour!

Jul2 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Airplanes, Based on a TV Show, Black and White, Disaster, Drama, Event Film, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original, Thriller Tagged airplane, airport, Arthur Hailey, Dana Andrews, doctor, flashback, food poisoning, Linda Darnell, pilots, post traumatic stress disorder, Sterling Hayden, veteran, William Conrad, World War Two, World War Two Veterans

December 23rd, 2012: The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Dec23 by David Cole

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a TV Show, Comedy, Ecological Disaster, Event Film, Movie of the Day Tagged Al Jean, Albert Brooks, Dan Castellaneta, Danny Elfman, David Mirkin, David Silverman, George Meyer, Golden Globe Best Animated Film Nominee, Hank Azaria, Hans Zimmer, Harry Shearer, Ian Maxtone-Graham, James L. Brooks, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, Julie Kavner, Matt Groening, Matt Selman, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Nancy Cartwright, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Yeardley Smith

October 29th, 2012: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

Oct29 by David Cole

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Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Based on a TV Show, Comedy, Family, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, Werewolves Tagged Best Animated Film

October 5th, 2012: Life of Brian (1979)

Oct5 by David Cole

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Based on a TV Show, Biblical Epic, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Satire Tagged Eric Idle, Geoffrey Burgon, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

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

Sep8 by Professor Mortis

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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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