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Entries from July 2006

The Thing From Another World (1951)

July 31st, 2006 · No Comments

A U.S. Air Force crew led by Captain Hendry (the great Kenneth Tobey) is dispatched from Anchorage to a remote research base in the Arctic Circle when reports come in that an aircraft has crashed in the area.
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Prime (2005)

July 28th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Recently divorced fashion shoot manager Rafi (Uma Thurman, filling in for Sandra Bullock, who dropped out of two weeks before filming) is consulting sensitive, liberal minded therapist Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep). The shrink encourages Rafi to put her bad marriage behind her and find someone who will appreciate her.
After a meet-cute in line for an […]

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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)

July 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Docking in the city of Charnak to propose to the Princess Farah, Sinbad (Patrick Wayne) discovers that her stepmother, the wicked Queen Zenobia (played terrifically by Margaret Whiting) has used her sorcery to transform Charnak’s rightful caliph into a baboon. According to the kingdom bylaws, he must be crowned in seven moons or the queen’s […]

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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)

July 26th, 2006 · No Comments

After a weird flying homunculus drops a golden tablet onto his ship, Sinbad (John Phillip Law) has a vision of a slave girl with an eye tattooed on her hand and an evil sorcerer. He lands his crew in Morabia, where the sorcerer Koura (Tom Baker) has cast a pall over the land.
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