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December 3rd, 2014: Breathless (1960)

Dec3 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Coming of Age, Crime, Drama, Independent, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, New Wave, Romance, Spoof, The Original, Tragedy Tagged before they were famous, car thief, double cross, femme fatale, Francois Truffaut, hand held camera, homage, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Serberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville, jump cuts, low-budget, motorcycle cop, murder, New Wave, newspaper, Paris, press conference

July 25th, 2014: Mekagojira no Gyakushu aka Terror of Mechagodzilla

Jul25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Dinosaurs, Drama, Event Film, Kaiju, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Tragedy, War with Aliens Tagged "I can't love you, "sound defeats the monster", Akihiko Hirata, Akira Ifukube, aliens from a dying world, Bad Dubbing, black hole, cuts in U.S. version, cyborg, daughter, dinosaurs, disgraced scientist, father, father-daughter relationship, femme fatale, Godzilla, Godzilla noir, gojira, Goro Mutsumi, Henry G. Saperstein, I'm a cyborg", Interpol, Ishiro Honda, Japan, JDF, Kenji Sahara, mad scientist, Mechagodzilla, prison, prison break, prisoner, scientists, silver space man jumpsuit, sonar, sonic weapon, submarine, suicide, superhero Godzilla, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

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

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

July 23rd, 2013: Brick (2005)

Jul23 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Crime, Detective, Drama, Independent, Indy, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Neo-Noir Tagged adults playing teens, before they were famous, double cross, drug addict, drug dealers, drugs, Emilie De Ravin, ex-girlfriend, femme fatale, high school, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, made up slang, narration, principal, Richard Roundtree, teens

May 28th, 2013: You Only Live Twice (1967)

May28 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Espionage, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Space Travel Tagged Akiko Wakabayashi, Albert R. Broccoli, Anthony Ainley, assassin, astronauts, bad makeup, Bernard Lee, Blofeld, Britain, Burt Kwouk, Charles Gray, Cold War, Desmond Llewelyn, Donald Pleasence, Eon Productions, femme fatale, fishermen, fishing boat, gimmick weapon, gyrocopter, gyrojets, Harry Saltzman, helicopter, hijacking, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Japan, John Barry, Karin Dor, Lois Maxwell, magnets, MI5, Mie Hama, ninja, nuclear war, poison, Roald Dahl, samurai swords, scientists, Sean Connery, Soviet Union, space hijacking, space race, sumo wrestling, undercover, United Artists, volcano, wedding

February 10th, 2013: Son of Dracula (1943)

Feb10 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Dracula, Film Noir, Horror, In Name Only Sequel, Movie of the Day, Sequel, Vampires Tagged Alucard, black magic, cash-in, children of famous people, Curt Siodmak, Deep South, double cross, Drive-In, Evelyn Ankers, femme fatale, Jack P. Pierce, Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Siodmak, swamp, twist

August 2nd, 2012: Bride of the Gorilla (1951)

Aug2 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Black and White, Great White Hunter, Horror, Independent, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Movie of the Day, Mystery, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "it's all in their heads-or is it?", before they were famous, curse, Curt Siodmak, Drive-In, femme fatale, gorilla suit, gorillas, insanity, it's only a dream, jungle, Lon Chaney Jr., low-budget, natives, older man, plantation, Raymond Burr, stock footage, the declining years, twist, witch, Woody Strode

June 7th, 2012: Branded to Kill

Jun7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Crime, Film Noir, Gangster, Hit Man, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, The Original Tagged alcoholic, Anne Mari, double cross, femme fatale, hit man, Japan, Jo Shishido, Nikkatsu, rice, Seijun Suzuki, Yakuza

May 5th, 2012: The Killing (1956)

May5 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Film Noir, Heist, Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged athlete turned actor, bar fight, bartender, bookie, Coleen Grey, double cross, Elisha Cook Jr., femme fatale, flowers, horse racing, James Edwards, Jim Thompson, Joe Sawyer, Joe Turkel, loan shark, low-budget, non-linear timeline, racetrack, shotgun, sniper, Stanley Kubrick, Sterling Hayden, Timothy Carey, unfaithful spouse, United Artists, wrestler

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