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Free Movie of the Day: 'Angel and the Badman'

By Shawn Perine (Subscribe to Shawn Perine's posts), Posted Jan 4th 2010 4:12AM
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Four decades before Harrison Ford portrayed a hardened man thrust into a pacifist world in 'Witness,' John Wayne played a similar role in 'Angel and the Badman.' Yet while Ford's character is a man of law and Wayne's is lawless, both men come to find that living among the peaceable is no easy task.

In 1947, John Wayne's star was shining brightly enough that he decided to take his first stab at producing a film. 'Angel and the Badman' was the result. Although it doesn't rank up there with 'The Searchers,' 'True Grit' or 'Rio Bravo' as a great Wayne movie, it is a competent piece of filmmaking set among the picturesque buttes of Monument Valley, Arizona.
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Free Movie of the Day: 'The Land That Time Forgot'

By Shawn Perine (Subscribe to Shawn Perine's posts), Posted Dec 28th 2009 4:24AM
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The idea of dinosaurs and primitives walking among modern man, as penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 'The Land That Time Forgot,' has proved a hugely appealing theme for filmmakers since the book's 1918 publication.

From 'King Kong' to 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' to 'Jurassic Park,' audiences have flocked to era-bending flicks for decades, no doubt inspired by every child's desire to see living dinosaurs. Fitting in with that desire is 'The Land That Time Forgot,' our free movie of the day.
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Free Movie of the Day: 'Buena Vista Social Club'

By Shawn Perine (Subscribe to Shawn Perine's posts), Posted Dec 14th 2009 12:30PM
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Buena Vista Social Club posterThere's a poignant scene near the end of Wim Wenders' documentary 'Buena Vista Social Club' in which legendary Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer is strolling the streets of Manhattan for the first time, at the age of 72. As he gazes in awe at buildings many times taller than the tallest in Havana you can feel his sense of wonderment and, like him, you can't help but smile, not for the sight of skyscrapers, but because you're happy that he's happy.
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Free Movie of the Day: 'Night of the Living Dead'

By Shawn Perine (Subscribe to Shawn Perine's posts), Posted Dec 7th 2009 12:21AM
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When George A. Romero decided to direct a zombie movie on a $114,000 budget in 1968, little did he know that he would also be launching a career for himself as a horror director, not to mention an entire film genre, one still popular today.

While 'Night of the Living Dead' wasn't the first zombie film, it's the first to posit the zombie-as-army theme, which has been revisited time and again (most recently in the excellent 'Zombieland') since. Whereas prior to 'NOTLD' zombies generally did their dirty deeds solo, Romero envisioned a narcoverse in which the undeadheads worked en masse if not in concert, kind of like the New Jersey Nets.
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Free Movie of the Day: 'How to Stuff a Wild Bikini'

By Shawn Perine (Subscribe to Shawn Perine's posts), Posted Nov 29th 2009 8:59PM
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Movie genres -- ya gotta love 'em. At least movie studios do, for it's the genres that establish loyal fan bases that continue to buy tickets to films even when reviews are less than favorable.

Today we're smack dab in the middle of a few notable genres -- the superhero genre, the zombie genre, the Megan Fox genre (possibly a sub-genre of the giant robot genre) and of course the teenage vampire genre. Yet as formulaic as any of them may be, none can hold a candle to the beach party genre for predictably mad-capped, bikini-busting, sun and surf goofiness. And when it comes to goofy, 'How to Stuff a Wild Bikini' takes the cake.
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Free Movie of the Day: 'Atom Age Vampire'

By Shawn Perine (Subscribe to Shawn Perine's posts), Posted Nov 23rd 2009 8:58PM
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Atom Age VampireWith vampire fever gripping the nation (or at least the teenage girl segment of it), now's as good a time as any to take a look back at 'Atom Age Vampire,' a 46-year-old vampire movie that happens not to include a single vampire.

The 1963 Italian film, dubbed into English, tells the convoluted story of a scientist whose work with Hiroshima survivors has lead him to two discoveries. One, a serum that is a curative for scarring; the other a serum that turns humans into scar(r)y monsters.
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