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November 17th, 2014: Taxi Driver (1976)

Nov17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, Thriller Tagged Albert Brooks, Best Actor Nominee, Best Music Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, cab driver, character study, Columbia Pictures, Cybill Shepard, grindhouse, Harry Northup, Harvey Keitel, insanity, it's not over, Jodie Foster, Joe Spinell, low-budget, Martin Scorcese, New York City, Paul Schrader, Peter Boyle, pimp, prostitutes, racism, racists, Robert De Niro, teens, vigilantes

October 20th, 2014: Night Monster (1942)

Oct20 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, Revenge, Whodunnit Tagged B-Movie, before they were famous, Bela Lugosi, butler, chauffeur, constable, doctor, Frank Reicherto, incompetent doctors, Indian-face, insanity, Leif Erickson, Lionel Atwill, low-budget, mansion, mystery writer, mystics, psychiatrists, racism, Ralph Morgan, revenge, swami, swamp, twist, Universal Pictures, writer

May 5th, 2014: The Right Stuff (1983)

May5 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged astronauts, Barbara Hershey, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Effects, Best Effects Sound Effects Editing, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Chuck Yeager, Cold War, David Clennon, David Gulpilil, Dennis Quaid, Donald Moffat, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Harry Shearer, Jeff Goldblum, John Dehner, John P. Ryan, Kathy Baker, Kim Stanley, Lance Henriksen, Levon Helm, Mary Jo Deschanel, NASA, O-Lan Jones, Pamela Reed, pilots, racism, racists, rocket launch, rockets, Royal Dano, Sam Shepard, scientists, Scott Glenn, Scott Wilson, sound barrier, space exploration, space race, test pilots, The Ladd Company, The Marines, U.S. Airforce, U.S. Navy, Veronica Cartwright

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

April 29th, 2013: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Apr29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Comedy, Drama, Movie of the Day, Romance Tagged arranged marriage, before they were famous, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Britain, Channel Four Films, class issues, Daniel Day-Lewis, immigrants, laundromat, mistress, Pakistanis, poverty, racism, racists, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Shirley Anne Field, Stephen Frears, Stephen Marcus, Working Title Films

February 17th, 2013: Slaughter (1972)

Feb17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Buddy Flick, Crime, Movie of the Day, Revenge, The Original Tagged AIP, casino, Don Gordon, double cross, Drive-In, funk soundtrack, Green Beret, grindhouse, handball, Jim Brown, MacGuffin, Mafia, Marlene Clark, maverick, Mexico, mobsters, racism, racist cops, racists, revenge, Rip Torn, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Stella Stevens, T-Men, veteran, Vietnam veterans

August 17th, 2012: A Bronx Tale (1993)

Aug17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Coming of Age, Crime, Drama, Gangster, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged actor turned director, apprentice/mentor relationship, arson, bikers, bus driver, Chazz Palminteri, father-son relationship, Joe Pesci, juvenile delinquent, Mafia, mobsters, Molotov cocktails, murder, New York City, racial violence, racism, racists, reluctant witness, Robert De Niro, teens, The Bronx, Tribeca Productions

June 23rd, 2012: Murder by Death (1976)

Jun23 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Detective, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, Spoof, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged Alec Guinness, Asian Face, before they were famous, Columbia Pictures, David Niven, double cross, Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lanchester, ethnic stereotype, James Coco, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, Neil Simon, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, racism, Truman Capote

June 20th, 2012: Black Gunn

Jun20 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Heist, Movie of the Day, Revenge Tagged "rip off the mob", Bernie Casey, Bruce Glover, California, cash-in, Columbia, Drive-In, grindhouse, Herb Jefferson Jr., Jim Brown, Los Angeles, Luciana Paluzzi, Mafia, Martin Landau, militants, mobsters, night club, racism, racists, revolutionaries

March 22nd, 2012: The Intruder aka I Hate Your Guts! aka Shame (1962)

Mar22 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Black and White, Drama, Independent, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, Political Thriller, Thriller Tagged attempted lynching, before they were famous, Charles Beaumont, Civil Rights, Deep South, Drive-In, Gene Corman, high school, integration, low-budget, mob, newspaper, principal, racism, racists, Roger Corman, Roger Corman Productions, salesman, William Shatner

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