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A FAMILY XMAS

By | December 2004

Depending on your opinion of the usual yuletide merriment on television and theater screens this time of year this short will either be a welcome diversion or a jarring deviation…

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A FAMILY XMAS

This of course is the time of year for heartfelt and treacle-infused holiday productions that make you and your loved ones cherish the times spent together...

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FAILURE

Imagine spending your entire life wanting to make movies. Then imagine finally grabbing life by its testicles and taking the plunge. You read every book...

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BEYOND THE SEA

Not so much a biopic of the crooner Bobby Darin, as a queasily self-centered one-man show by director/star/producer/singer Kevin Spacey, who not only plays...

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Matthew has been haunted by strange, flickering shadows in the corner of his awareness ever since he was a boy. For years he has kept this a secret, but...

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Ron Santo was third baseman for the Chicago Cubs from 1960-73, pulling in 342 home runs and winning the Gold Glove five times between ’64 and ’68. The...

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THE FRANK SINATRA SHOW WITH ELLA FITZGERALD (DVD)

This DVD offers a wonderfully strange episode of Frank Sinatra's TV variety show. Broadcast on December 10, 1959, the program was originally planned to be...

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LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

Minor Spoilers Ahead When it comes to creepy locales and gloomy protagonists in children’s literature, it’s hard to beat the Brits, and the popular...

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REALMS OF BLOOD (DVD)

It’s a gorehound’s worst nightmare. After another soul-crushing day of working-class drudgery, Average Joe collapses onto his recliner, revs up the...

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PARTY ANIMALS

The following salutary note precedes this short, “This story is based on true events . . . unfortunately.” Fortunate or not, real or not, it is funny...

PALM SPRINGS ANNOUNCES 2005 PROGRAM

The 16th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival has announced its roster of 190 films, culled from more than 65 countries for the 2005 Festival. ...

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