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August 2nd, 2011: Quiet Cool

Aug2 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Cops, Crime, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged awful cover, California, Chris Mulkey, double cross, drug dealers, drugs, Fran Ryan, homoerotic subtext, James Remar, Jared Martin, marijuana, maverick cops, New Line Cinema, Nick Cassavetes, showdown, survivalist, twist

March 31st, 2012: Showdown in Little Tokyo

Mar31 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Cops, Crime, DTV, Movie of the Day, Revenge, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "Fear of a Japanese Planet", Al "Kabong" Leong, Brandon Lee, California, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, children of famous people, code of honor, decapitation, Dolph Lundgren, drug dealers, ethnic enclave, gang conference, Gerald Okamura, homoerotic subtext, Ice, impotent villain, Los Angeles, Mark L. Lester, maverick cops, motorcycle gang, mustache twirling, parade, samurai swords, scar, Tia Carrere, torture, Warner Brothers, Yakuza

February 14th, 2012: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Feb14 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film Tagged ambigious ending, Australia, Australian Film Commission, disappearance, girls' school, homoerotic subtext, low-budget, Peter Weir, teens, Victorian era

September 14th, 2011: The Road Warror

Sep14 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Apocalypse, Chase, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Thriller, Western Tagged anti-hero, Australia, Brian May, Bruce Spence, convoy, feint, feral child, George Miller, gyrocopter, homage, homoerotic subtext, MacGuffin, Mel Gibson, narration, oil, oil crisis, Ozploitation, under siege, Vernon Wells

September 10th, 2011: The Streetfighter (1974)

Sep10 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Crime, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged cash-in, double cross, grindhouse, heiress, heterosexual life partner, hit man, homoerotic subtext, Japan, kidnapping, Masafumi Suzuki, mercenary, oil company, oil crisis, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, sidekick, Sonny Chiba, stilted dialogue, Toei Company, Triad Gangsters, World War Two, Yakuza

June 23rd, 2011: Commando (1985)

Jun23 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Action, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Alyssa Milano, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Duke, Bob Minor, commandos, Dan Hedaya, David Patrick Kelly, homoerotic subtext, hostage, James Horner, Joel Silver, Mark L. Lester, quips, Rae Dawn Chong, Silver Pictures, SLM Production Group

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