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December 17th, 2014: Repo Man (1984)

Dec17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Comedy, Espionage, Independent, Movie of the Day, Satire, Sci-Fi Tagged Alex Cox, children of famous people, covenience store robbery, Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, homage, Iggy Pop, Michael Nesmith, Miguel Sandoval, punks, repo men, revolutionaries, robbery, robbery gone wrong, scientists, secret agent, secret military project, secret police, Sy Richardson, teens, televangelists, television, Tracey Walter, UFO, Vonetta McGee

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

August 6th, 2014: The Blob (1988)

Aug6 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black Comedy, Blobs, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Remake, Sci-Fi, Uncategorized Tagged annoying kid, Art LaFleur, bad boy, Bill Moseley, blobs, Candy Clark, Chuck Russell, cold kills the monster, cover-up, Donovan Leitch Jr., Erika Eleniak, Frank Darabont, germ warfare, Jack Nance, Joe Seneca, Kevin Dillon, movie theater, Paul McCrane, preacher, satellites, secret military project, sewer lair, sewers, Shawnee Smith, small town, TriStar Pictures

July 12th, 2013: The Avengers (2012)

Jul12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Aliens, Based on a Comic Book, Computer Animation, Event Film, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Space Opera, Superheroes, War with Aliens Tagged Alan Silvestri, Alexis Denisof, based on a comic book, Best Visual Effects Nominee, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, comic books, Gwyneth Paltrow, Harry Dean Stanton, Jenny Agutter, Jeremy Renner, Jon Favreau, Joss Whedon, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel Studios, mecha, New York City, Paramount Pictures, Paul Bettany, Powers Boothe, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, scientists, secret agent, secret military project, secret weapon, Stan Lee, Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Hiddleston, World War Two Veterans

March 15th, 2012: The Mist (2007)

Mar15 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Disaster, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Parallel World Tagged "kill it with fire", Andre Braugher, Bob Weinstein, character study, Chris Owen, Dimension Films, fire, flamethrowers, Frances Sternhagen, Frank Darabont, Harvey Weinstein, it's not over, Jeffery DeMunn, Laurie Holden, Marcia Gay Harden, monsters from another dimension, religious nut, Richard Saperstein, secret military project, Stephen King, supermarket, Thomas Jane, Toby Jones, twist, U.S. Army, under siege, Weinstein Company, William Sadler

September 18th, 2011: Real Genius

Sep18 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Buddy Flick, College, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slapstick Tagged Air Force, beauticians, Brian Grazer, California, child prodigy, college, college students, Dean Devlin, Deborah Foreman, Ed Lauter, engineers, Gabriel Jarret, Jon Gries, laser, Martha Coolidge, Michelle Meyrink, montage, Neal Israel, Pat Proft, pranks, professors, reclusive genius, Robert Prescott, secret military project, secret weapon, snobs vs. slobs, Stacey Peralta, training sequence, TriStar Pictures, Val Kilmer, wild party, William Atherton

May 9th, 2011: My Science Project

May9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Parallel World, Sci-Fi, Stop Motion Animation, Time Travel Tagged Al "Kabong" Leong, Area 51, Barry Corbin, cavemen, Dennis Hopper, dinosaurs, Fisher Stevens, Frank Welker, high school, hot rods, John Stockwell, low-budget, Michael Berryman, mutants, Pamela Springsteen, Richard Masur, Robert DoQui, secret military project, Silver Screen Pictures, teachers, teens, time portal, Touchstone Pictures, Viet Cong

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