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December 18th, 2014: The Holiday (2006)

Dec18 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Romance Tagged "England", Bill Macy, Cameron Diaz, Columbia Pictures, composer, Dean Cundey, Dustin Hoffman, Edward Burns, Eli Wallach, film within a film, filmmaking, Hans Zimmer, Jack Black, James Franco, John Krasinski, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Kathryn Hahn, Lindsay Lohan, London, Los Angeles, magic old person, meet cute, Nancy Meyers, Relativity Media, Rufus Sewell, Shelley Berman, Universal Pictures, village

November 15th, 2014: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)

Nov15 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in College, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Slapstick Tagged "make out point", bachelor pad, before they were famous, Cesare Danova, Chris Miller, college, college students, Donald Sutherland, Douglas Kenney, Elmer Bernstein, fraternity, Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman, John Belushi, John Landis, John Vernon, Karen Allen, Kevin Bacon, Mark Metcalf, motorcycle, oversexed college students, parade, Peter Riegert, ROTC, snobs vs. slobs, sorority, Stephen Furst, Thomas Hulce, Tim Matheson, townies, Universal Pictures, Verna Bloom

November 13th, 2014: The Invisible Woman (1940)

Nov13 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, In Name Only Sequel, Movie of the Day, Romance, Sci-Fi, Screwball, Sequel, Slapstick Tagged alcoholic, Best Special Effects Nominee, broke, butler, Curt Siodmak, Donald MacBride, Edward Brophy, gangsters, invisibility, Invisible Man, John Barrymore, John Howard, maid, Margaret Hamilton, Mexico, models, Oskar Homolka, playboy, Science!, scientists, Shemp Howard, The Border, the declining years, Universal Pictures, Virginia Gibb

November 11th, 2014: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Nov11 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Anti-War, Based on a Book, Black and White, Coming of Age, Drama, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, The Original, War Movies Tagged apprentice/mentor relationship, before they were famous, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director, Best Picture, Carl Laemmle Jr., cursed objects, Edward L. Cahn, Erich Maria Remaque, French Army, George Cukor, German Army, Germany, Great War, hard ass seargant, horrors of war, hospital, Karl Freund, Lew Ayres, Lewis Milestone, Louis Wolheim, military training, teachers, Universal Pictures

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

August 29th, 2014: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Aug29 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Arthouse, Based on a Board Game, Based on a Poem, Comedy, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Prison, Road Trip, Slapstick Tagged 1930s, absent father, bank robber, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, buried treasure, chain gang, Charles Durning, Classical allusion, Classical Mythology, convict, crossroads, dam, deal with the devil, escaped convicts, father, George Clooney, Holly Hunter, homage, husband, John Goodman, John Turturro, Mississippi, music contest, pomade, radio station, Roger Deakins, Studio Canal, T Bone Burnett, Tim Blake Nelson, Touchstone Pictures, Universal Pictures, wife, Working Title Films

August 4th, 2014: Trick Baby (1972)

Aug4 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Based on a Book, Blaxploitation, Chase, Con, Crime, Movie of the Day Tagged con artist, diamonds, Don Fellows, double cross, Iceberg Slim, Kiel Martin, Larry Yurst, location shooting, low-budget, Mafia, Mel Stewart, mobsters, Philadelphia, racists, real estate scam, Robert Beck, Ted Lange, Universal Pictures

July 21st, 2014: Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

Jul21 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Animals Attack, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Horror, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Bela Lugosi, belly dancing, Carl Laemmle Jr., carnival, Edgar Allan Poe, gorilla suit, Jack P. Pierce, John Huston, Karl Freund, Leon Ames, medical student, Noble Johnson, Pat Roach, side show, Sidney Fox, stock footage, Universal Pictures

July 22nd, 2014: The World’s End (2013)

Jun22 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Action, Aliens, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Spoof, War with Aliens Tagged bar, bar fight, Bill Nighy, body snatchers, Britain, car dealer, co-production, Cornetto Trilogy, David Bradley, Edgar Wright, Focus Features, gentrification, Japan, Martin Freeman, Michael Smiley, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Pierce Brosnan, pub, pub crawl, rehab, Relativity Media, reunion, robots, Rosamund Pike, Simon Pegg, Universal Pictures, Working Title Films

June 13th, 2014: Black Friday (1940)

Jun13 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Black and White, Crime, From Beyond the Grave, Gangster, Horror, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Sci-Fi, Thriller Tagged B-Movie, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, brain transplant, Curt Siodmak, Friday the 13th, Judo, Kirk Fu, mobsters, Paul Fix, strangler, Universal Pictures

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