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Weekend Cinema Listomania (Special They Walk Among Us! Edition)

Friday, November 6

Video Event of the Week: Could it be Sony's DVD version of the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 with Denzel Washington and John Travolta? Would Fox's 20th anniversary Blu-ray of Say Anything, the brilliant Cameron Crowe teen romance starring the young John Cusack, conceivably make the cut? Or, god forbid, against every decent human impulse that separates us from the primordial slime we oozed out of, might Paramount's DVD and Blu-ray of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra by any chance be The One? Could be, could be, but in the meantime here's a fun little project for us all -- Most Memorable Film Featuring the Meddling of Some Supernatural Entity in Human Affairs, Great or Small!!!...

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The Box

by John P. McCarthy

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Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly takes a stab at adapting fantasy writer Richard Matheson’s short story Button, Button. What results is the opposite of pressing. Rod Serling could have said everything The Box says in nearly two hours and compress...

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The Fourth Kind

by Pam Grady

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Interspersed throughout The Fourth Kind, a Sci-fi thriller about a Nome, Alaska therapist and her patients' close encounters with extraterrestrials, there are snippets of an interview director Olatunde Osunsanmi purportedly conducted with the "real" Dr. Abigail Tyler. Watching Tyler in...

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Disney's A Christmas Carol

by Pete Hammond

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Technically far superior to his two previous directorial efforts in the Motion (a.k.a. Performance) Capture process (Beowulf, Polar Express), Robert Zemeckis has delivered a spectacular and extraordinary new 3D version of the greatest Christmas story of them all. Serving up...

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Michael Jackson's This Is It

by Amy Nicholson

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"The Church of Rock and Roll!" yelps tour director Kenny Ortega as the crew rises to its feet for Michael Jackson's rehearsal of "Billie Jean." No question: to fans, Jackson was the messiah. And this documentary is his resurrection. This...

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