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December 13th, 2014: Inside Man (2006)

Dec13 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Cops, Crime, Detective, Drama, Heist, Hostage Situation, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Revenge, Thriller Tagged Albania, bank robbery, Christopher Plummer, Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, detective, disguise, hostage situation, Jodie Foster, Nazis, negotiator, pizza, police, secret identity, Spike Lee, unreliable narrator, World War Two

December 7th, 2014: High and Low — a.k.a. Tengoku to jigoku (1963)

Dec7 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Addicition, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Drama, Film Noir, Hostage Situation, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Stalker, Thriller, Tragedy Tagged Akira Kurosawa, class issues, detective, Ed McBain, heroin, industrialist, Japan, kidnapping, mistaken identity, noir, ransom, rock and roll, shoes, Sixties, Toshiro Mifune

February 24th, 2014: The Last Seduction (1994)

Feb24 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Made for TV, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, The Original, Thriller Tagged bartender, before they were famous, Bill Nunn, Bill Pullman, Britain, Buffalo, Dean Norris, detective, double cross, drug dealers, femme fatale, it's not over, ITC, J.T. Walsh, Linda Fiorentino, New York City, Peter Berg, small town, transgender, twist

October 14th, 2013: The Resurrected aka Shatterbrain (1992)

Oct14 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Detective, DTV, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Possession, Remake, Stop Motion Animation Tagged "New England", asylum, British Columbia, Chris Sarandon, Dan O'Bannon, Deep Roy, detective, diary, flashback, H.P. Lovecraft, Hartford, Jane Sibbett, John Terry, low-budget, nightmares, Rhode Island, Richard Band, Robert Romanus, the declining years, TV actors

September 9th, 2013: Golden Needles aka The Chase for the Golden Needles

Sep9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Crime, Detective, Independent, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Bad Tagged "ultimate sexual power", AIP, Ann Southern, Beverly Hills, Burgess Meredith, California, cash-in, detective, double cross, Elizabeth Ashley, erotic dinner, ex-pats, flamethrowers, Fred Weintraub, Hong Kong, Jim Kelly, Joe Don Baker, Lalo Schifrin, MacGuffin, oversexed old people, Paul M. Heller, rip-off, Robert Clouse

September 4th, 2013: Blood Simple (1984)

Sep4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Crime, Hit Man, Independent, Indy, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, Thriller Tagged adultery, bar, bartender, before they were famous, burying a body, Dan Hedaya, detective, double cross, Ethan Coen, Frances McDormand, Holly Hunter, Joel Coen, John Getz, low-budget, Texas

August 12th, 2013: Wild at Heart (1990)

Aug12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Uncategorized Tagged abortion, abusive mother, bank, bank robbers, bank robbery, Calvin Lockhart, car accident, children of famous people, Crispin Glover, David Lynch, David Patrick Kelly, decapitation, detective, Diane Ladd, double cross, ex-con, fantasy sequence, Francis Bay, Freddie Jones, Grace Zabriskie, Harry Dean Stanton, hit man, Isabella Rossellini, J.E. Freeman, Jack Nance, John Lurie, Laura Dern, mother, mother-daugther relationship, Nicholas Cage, nylons as mask, overbearing mother, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Sherilyn Fenn, Sheryl Lee, Tracey Walter

August 6th, 2013: Out of the Past (1947)

Aug6 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Drama, Film Noir, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged detective, double cross, femme fatale, flashback, gas station, Jacques Tourneur, James M. Cain, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, mobsters, moll, National Film Registry, Robert Mitchum, twist

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

Mar20 by Professor Mortis

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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

March 9th, 2012: Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Mar9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Espionage, Film Noir, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery Tagged Albert Dekker, before they were famous, Classical allusion, Cloris Leachman, detective, Ernest Laszlo, ethnic stereotype, femme fatale, Frank DeVol, hitchhiking, Jack Elam, low-budget, MacGuffin, mechanic, Mickey Spillane, Paul Stewart, Ralph Meeker, Robert Aldrich, scientists, Strother Martin, United Artists

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