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December 4th, 2014: Aelita aka Aelita: Queen of Mars
After receiving radio signals from the Aelita, the Queen of Mars (Yuliya Solntseva), engineer Los (Nikolai Tseretli) builds a spaceship and journeys to Mars, where he finds an oppressive monarchy...
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December 7th, 2014: High and Low — a.k.a. Tengoku to jigoku (1963)
Best known for his historical epics (including Ran and Seven Samurai), Akira Kurosawa started his career with some gripping detective films. In High and Low, adapted from the novel King's Ransom by Ed...
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December 15th, 2014: Incubus (1966)
Succubus Kia (Allyson Ames) attempts to corrupt the soul of Marc (William Shatner), but when she fails she summons an Incubus (Milos Milos) to strike at Marc's sister Arndis (Ann Atmar).
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December 27th, 2014: Touch of Evil
Mike and Susie Vargas (Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh) find their honeymoon on the US-Mexico border interrupted by an assassination. "Mike" is Ramon Miguel Vargas, a Mexican Narcotics Officer, and...
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December 28th, 2014: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Fred Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Bob Curtin (Tim Holt) are down-on-their luck Americans looking for work in Mexico. When a lucky lottery win gives them the means, and and old timer Howard (Walter...
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December 30th, 2014: The Land Unknown (1957)
A naval helicopter on an exploration mission crashes in the mouth of an Antarctic volcano that houses a lost world of prehistoric dinosaurs and plants. Can the survivors find a way to repair their...
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...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week One
The Professor’s Fall Journal, October 1st: The season of the witch is upon us. Silver Shamrock time. Now that I have your attention with the horrors of that earworm, it’s time to begin recording my...
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So one victim of my usual deadly combo of Fall being my busiest season professionally and personally was my apparent belief I should put this in weeks to break it up-and not thinking about the actual...
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October 22nd: I borrowed the Cujo audio book from my local library’s Overdrive eBook collection. I’ve never seen the film (other than bits of pieces of it that I was either too scared to watch or too...
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