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THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY

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While “The Diving Bell” is based on Bauby’s elegant, well-wrought words, Schnabel’s film is so steeped in the visual that it is surely the purest of cinema…

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THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY

The opening scene of “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” captures viewers with a breathtaking point-of-view shot, as the frame reveals the blurry,...

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SPLATTER FARM

Ever wonder what you'd get if you took "Napoleon Dynamite", clone Jon Heder, put him in the movie twice, and then have both of them get killed off in a...

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CHOCOLATES

An old man walking to work one morning finds himself balked at his usual route and forced to take a memorable side trip in "Chocolates." And what a long,...

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ONE MISSED CALL

The American horror film has been on a steady, relentless decline since the 1980s. And while even that era of cookie cutter slasher flicks yielded a few...

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FOREST OF THE DEAD

It's hard to talk about a movie that watches like a parody of a K-Tel music ad; a movie that plays the oldest slasher movie standards like it invented them...

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THE HARRY LANGDON COLLECTION: LOST AND FOUND (DVD)

Harry Langdon was among the most polarizing figures in movie comedy history – either you thought he was an equal to Chaplin and Keaton, or you found him...

2008 PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW

If variety is the spice of life, then there’s no better place to be January 3-14 than in Palm Springs for the 19th annual edition of the ever-popular...

Bootleg Files Features

THE BOOTLEG FILES: "FANTASMAGORIE"

BOOTLEG FILES 214: “Fantasmagorie” (1908 animated film by Emile Cohl). LAST SEEN: Widely available on numerous Net sites. AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: In...

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FOX NEWS CREATES FALSE CONTROVERSY, EXPLOITS VICTIMS…

They make good points. Remember in 9/11 when a monster tossed the head of the statue of liberty across the...

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THE NEW "THE DARK KNIGHT" TRAILER…

A la Joblo.com, this is the trailer you've all been waiting...

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