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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

South Shore Movie Guild Review: The Ultimate Weapon (1998)

Dec12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, DTV, Full Reviews, Independent, Reviews Tagged absent father, bad accents, body shield, booby trap, broadsword, Canada, Canuxploitation, codenames, daughter, drive by, father, father-daughter relationship, hostage, hostage situation, Hulk Hogan, insanity, IRA, Irish, low-budget, mercenary, mine, nightmares, pimp, prostitutes, prostitution, Serbia, sidekick, special forces, SSMG, strip club, strippers, sword duels, terrorists, torture, United Nations

July 23rd, 2014: The Delta Force (1986)

Jul23 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Action, Adaptation, Airplanes, Disaster, Drama, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Special Operations, Thriller, War Movies Tagged Alan Silvestri, Bo Svenson, Cannon, Chuck Norris, co-production, comes out of retirement, Delta Force, Eric Norris, Golan-Globus, Greece, hijacking, hostage, hostage situation, Israel, Joey Bishop, Kevin Dillon, Kim Delaney, Lainie Kazan, Lebanon, Lee Marvin, Liam Neeson, Martin Balsam, maverick, Menahem Golan, motorcycle, pilots, Robert Forster, Robert Vaughn, rocket launcher, Shelly Winters, Steve James, stewardess, super motorcycle, terrorists, the declining years, U.S. Navy, Yoram Globus

January 6th, 2014: Nighthawks (1981)

Jan6 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Cops, Crime, Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged "illegal plastic surgeons have a short life span", Billy Dee Williams, Catherine Mary Stewart, Central Park, cops, decoy squad, disco, disguise expert, drag, hostage, hostage situation, Interpol, Jamie Gillis, Joe Spinell, Keith Emerson, Lindsay Wagner, location shooting, maverick cops, Metropolitan Museum of Art, muggers, New York City, Nigel Davenport, party, Persis Khambatta, plastic surgery, Roosevelt Island Tramway, Rutger Hauer, subway, Sylvester Stallone, terrorists, The Met, United Nations

July 17th, 2013: R.O.T.O.R.

Jul17 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Action, Dark Future, Independent, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Bad Dubbing, bad narration, breaking the fourth wall, cash-in, comedic janitor, comedic robot, covenience store robbery, cowboys, dubbed, hostage situation, it's not over, killer robots, low-budget, musical interlude, narration, needed waterproof make-up, Odious Comic Relief, racism, ranch, rip-off, scientists, step-n-fetch-it, Texas

June 11th, 2013: Big Jake (1971)

Jun11 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Western Tagged Batjac Films, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot, children of famous people, Christopher Mitchum, Drive-In, Elmer Bernstein, Estranged parent, father, father-son relationship, grandfather, Hank Worden, Harry Carey Jr., hostage, hostage situation, Jim Davis, John Agar, John Wayne, kidnapping, Maureen O'Hara, old men, old timer, overbearing father, Patrick Wayne, ranch, rancher, ransom, Richard Boone, Roy Jenson, Texas Ranger

January 14th, 2012: The Petrified Forest (1936)

Jan14 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Black and White, Crime, Drama, Hostage Situation, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Romance, The Original, Thriller, Tragedy, Uninvited Guests Tagged Archie Mayo, bank robbers, Bette Davis, Charles Kenyon, Delmer Daves, desert, Dick Foran, diner, father-daughter relationship, football player, gas station, Hal B. Wallis, hostage, hostage situation, Humphrey Bogart, idealist, Leslie Howard, old men, old timer, paramilitary group, poet, Porter Hall, rest stop, Robert E. Sherwood, Warner Brothers

December 24th, 2011: Die Hard (1988)

Dec24 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, Cops, Crime, Event Film, Heist, Holiday, Hostage Situation, Movie of the Day, The Original Tagged "Fear of a Japanese Planet", "I shot a kid with a toy gun", "plummets to his death", 20th Century Fox, Al "Kabong" Leong, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, asshole reporter, before they were famous, Best Effects Best Visual Effects Nominee, Best Effects Sound Effects Editing Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Bonnie Bedelia, Bruce Willis, cops, double cross, Grand L. Bush, Hart Bochner, helicopter, hostage, hostage situation, it's not over, James Shigeta, Jan de Bont, Joel Silver, John McTiernan, maverick cops, Michael Kamen, office building, Paul Gleason, Reginald VelJohnson, reporter, Robert Davi, Silver Pictures, SWAT, terrorists, Wilhelm von Homburg, William Atherton, yuppies

Chisum (1970)

Dec7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Epic, Event Film, Full Reviews, Reviews, Western Tagged Andrew J. Fenady, Andrew Prine, Andrew V. McLaglen, Ben Johnson, Bruce Cabot, cattle rustling, children of famous people, Christopher George, Christopher Mitchum, Forrest Tucker, Glen Corbett, Hank Worden, hostage situation, John Agar, John Mitchum, John Wayne, Lynda Day George, Patrick Knowles, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, posse, Richard Jaeckel

September 11th, 2011: Invasion U.S.A. (1985)

Sep11 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Event Film, Guerrillas, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Revenge, So-Bad-It's-Good, Special Operations, War Movies Tagged "I'm Done Killing", "They Wouldn't Let Me Do What Needed to Be Done", Aaron Norris, Alexander Zale, because its in the script nemesis, Billy Drago, black ops, boat people, Cannon, Christmas, Chuck Norris, Cold War, Cuba, Cubans, drug deal gone bad, drug dealers, hero rage, hostage situation, jingoism, Joseph Zito, less famous siblings, low-budget, maverick, Melissa Prophet, Menahem Golan, one man army, pushed too far, refugees, retired special ops, Richard Lynch, Soviet Union, spineless bureacrats, terrorists, U.S.A.!U.S.A.!, Yoram Globus

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