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August 27th, 2014: There Will Be Blood

Aug27 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Indy, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Nominee, Best Cinematography, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Editing, California, capitalists, Christian fundamentalists, Ciaran Hinds, con artist, Daniel Day-Lewis, deaf people, minister, Miramax, oil, Paramount Vantage, Paul Dano, Paul Thomas Anderson, prospectors

December 9th, 2013: Terror in a Texas Town

Dec9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Revenge, Western Tagged blacklisted writer, corrupt cops, corruption, Dalton Trumbo, evil businessman, flashback, front, gunfighter, harpoon, hired guns, homesteaders, immigrants, Joseph H. Lewis, low-budget, oil, Sebastian Cabot, sheriff, Sterling Hayden, Swedes, United Artists, whaler

July 4th, 2013: Vigilante Force

Jul4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Cops, Crime, Heist, Independent, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged allegory, Andrew Stevens, before they were famous, Bernadette Peters, boomtown, Brad Dexter, brothers, Charles Cyphers, corrupt cops, Dick Miller, double cross, Gene Corman, George Armitage, Hicksploitation, Independence Day, Jan Michael Vincent, Kris Kristofferson, Loni Anderson, low-budget, marching band, maverick cops, mayor, oil, oil crisis, parade, Paul Gleason, prostitutes, rednecks, the declining years, U.S.A.!U.S.A.!, United Artists, Victoria Principal, Vietnam veterans, vigilantes

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 5th, 2011: The Wages of Fear

Sep5 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Black and White, Buddy Flick, Drama, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Thriller Tagged Charles Vanel, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC), ex-pats, explosives, Filmsonor, Fono Roma, France, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Italy, oil, Peter van Eyck, South America, truckers, Vera Clouzot, Yves Montand

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