August 15th, 2014: Tropic Thunder (2008)
A series of mistakes on the shoot of a Vietnam War movie results in the actors finding themselves fighting a group of drug runners...
View ArticleAugust 26th, 2014: Seven Samurai (1954)
Villagers threatened with starvation at the hands of bandits who demand their crop decide to hire samurai to protect them, but the wages they can offer attract only seven. Can this rag-tag group...
View ArticleSeptember 5th, 2014: King Rat
Captured with the fall of Singapore, Corporal King (George Segal) is the "King" of Changi prison camp, wheeling and dealing to get what the men want and need, but as the war approaches its end, and the...
View ArticleSeptember 27, 2014: The Sound of Music (1965)
Cast and Crew: Robert Wise (Director), Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Music); Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Angela Cartwright What It’s About: Looking at...
View ArticleOctober 3rd, 2014: Chôjikû Yôsai Macross: Ai Oboeteimasuka aka SDF-1 Macross:...
In the near future humans fly a rebuilt alien spaceship into battle against warring camps of giant, alien cloned warriors-the Zentradei, who are all male, and the Maltrandi, who are all female. Can...
View ArticleOctober 5th, 2014: Frankenstein’s Army (2013)
Cast and Crew: Richard Raaphorst (Director); Chris W. Mitchell and Miguel Tejada-Flores (Writers); Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym, Alexander Mercury, and Luke Newberry What It’s About: Toward...
View ArticleOctober 8th, 2014: Aliens (1986)
Ripley's (Sigourney Weaver) survival capsule is picked up in deep space 50 years after the events of Alien. The planet where her crew encountered a new, deadly alien life-form was colonized. When all...
View ArticleNovember 11th, 2014: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
At the start of the Great War, Herr Mueller (Russell Gleason) whips Paul (Lew Ayres) and the rest of his class into a frenzy promising them glory, quick victory, and the honor of serving their country...
View ArticleDecember 16th, 2014: Castle Keep
While the Battle of the Bulge rages and the German Army approaches, a group of walking wounded recuperating in a 10th century castle must decide if they should join those retreating from the Germans,...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: Part 2: September
September 19th: The Baroness and I watched Crooked House, my obligatory Agatha Christie story for this season (I wasn’t able to find the 1974 Ten Little Indians and somehow this ended up on my list...
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