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December 7th, 2014: High and Low — a.k.a. Tengoku to jigoku (1963)

Dec7 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Addicition, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Drama, Film Noir, Hostage Situation, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Stalker, Thriller, Tragedy Tagged Akira Kurosawa, class issues, detective, Ed McBain, heroin, industrialist, Japan, kidnapping, mistaken identity, noir, ransom, rock and roll, shoes, Sixties, Toshiro Mifune

November 12th, 2014: Sound City (2013)

Nov12 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Documentary, Independent, Movie of the Day, Music Tagged Dave Grohl, Eighties, Fleetwood Mac, grunge, Josh Homme, Lindsay Buckingham, Metallica, Mick Fleetwood, Neil Young, Nine Inch Nails, nineties, Nirvana, Paul McCartney, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rick Springfield, rock and roll, seventies, Sound City Studios, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor

November 9th, 2014: Top Secret! (1984)

Nov9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged before they were famous, cable staple, Communism, David Zucker, East Germany, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrams, Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Gough, Nazis, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, rock and roll, scientists, secret military project, secret police, secret weapon, The Resistance, Val Kilmer, ZAZ

June 28, 2014: A Band Called Death (2013)

Jun28 by bellabone

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1 Comment Posted in Documentary, Independent, Indy, Movie of the Day, Music Tagged Detroit, documentary, father-son relationship, hipsters, Jehovah's Witnesses, Punk Rock, record collectors, rock and roll, seventies, Vermont

June 18th, 2014: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Jun18 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Comedy, In Name Only Sequel, Movie of the Day, Music, Remake, Romance, Satire, Sequel, Spoof, Whodunnit Tagged 20th Century Fox, attempted suicide, Charles Napier, cross dressing, decapitation, double cross, ingenues, Los Angeles, Nazis, porn stars, producer, rise and fall, rock and roll, Roger Ebert, Russ Meyers, The Strawberry Alarm Clock

January 9, 2014: The Song Remains the Same (1976)

Jan9 by bellabone

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Backstage, Documentary, Fantasy, Gangster, Movie of the Day, Music, Sword and Sorcery Tagged Aleister Crowley, concert, drag racing, Excalibur, hermit, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, knights, Led Zeppelin, Madison Square Garden, Mafia, mountain climbing, New York City, Peter Grant, pilgrim, Robert Plant, rock and roll, seventies, snooker, Warner Brothers

January 2nd 2014: Wayne’s World (1992)

Jan2 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Sketch, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Music, The Original Tagged "let's put on a show", Alice Cooper, Brian Doyle-Murray, cable, Chris Farley, Colleen Camp, Dana Carvey, Donna Dixon, Ed O'Neill, headbangers, heavy metal, Ione Skye, Kurt Fuller, Lara Flynn Boyle, Meat Loaf, Michael DeLuise, Mike Hagerty, Mike Myers, Paramount Pictures, Penelope Spheeris, public access, Rob Lowe, Robert Patrick, Rock, rock and roll, snobs vs. slobs, Tia Carrere

November 12th, 2013: Back to the Future (1985)

Nov12 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Comedy, Event Film, Fish-Out-of-Water, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Sci-Fi, The Original, Time Travel Tagged 1950s, Alan Silvestri, Amblin Entertainment, before they were famous, big dance, Billy Zane, Bob Gale, Casey Siemasko, children of famous people, Christopher Lloyd, Courtney Gains, Crispin Glover, dance, Dean Cundey, Frank Marshall, Gary Riley, George "Buck" Flower, homage, Huey Lewis and the News, Jackie Gleason, James Tolkan, Lea Thompson, Marc McClure, Michael J. Fox, musical interlude, Robert Zemeckis, rock and roll, skateboards, soda fountain, Steven Spielberg, teens, The Honeymooners, Thomas F. Wilson, Universal Pictures, Wendie Jo Sperber

April 12th, 2013: Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

Apr12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged adults playing teens, AIP, bad rear projection, bad special effects, Bert I. Gordon, cash-in, DDT, Drive-In, gym, high school, James H. Nicholson, low-budget, music summons the monster, musical interlude, rip-off, rock and roll, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Science!, scientists, teachers, teens

The Giant Gila Monster

Mar29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Full Reviews, Independent, Kaiju, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Bad Tagged big dance, DJ, Drive-In, hot rods, low-budget, MST3K, Ray Kellog, rock and roll, Shug Fisher, teens, train attack

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