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'Tis the season: some favorite Christmas-flavored films
Zap2ItWith Christmas falling on a Saturday this year, there's one last full week -- well, almost -- before St. Nick makes his annual rounds. Thanks to television, DVD and Blu-ray, there also are chances to give yourself some extra holiday cheer with movies...Tags: Blu-ray Discs, Laura Linney, Bing Crosby, Weddings, James Stewart
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Hold the 'Clones'
The Star Wars saga becomes available in striking display Tuesday when "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" is released on DVD, the first major live-action film created directly from the digital source and digitally mastered by THX. Now viewers...Tags: Nigel Hawthorne, George Lucas, Natalie Portman, Entertainment, Ben Burtt
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Seasonal rentals
After the flurry of holiday activity -- fighting the crowds at the mall, wrapping the gifts and trimming the tree -- all you really want is an escape. Pop some popcorn but forget about stringing it up and hanging it on the tree. Just munch on it while you...Tags: Jim Henson, Defense, A Christmas Story (movie), Armed Forces, Crimes
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Theater review, 'Miracle on 34th Street' at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
Tribune arts reporterEver since 1947, "Miracle on 34th Street" has been known as a lovable piece of holiday schmaltz. The cable-friendly classic has a uniquely American way of critiquing capitalism while propagating the big lie that Mr. Macy would have been perfectly happy...Tags: Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice, Holidays, Justice System, Judges
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5 films that about World War II occupation and resistance in France
1. THIS LAND IS MINE (Jean Renoir; 1943) 3 1/2 stars Mostly ignored in America, this is a better film than its reputation. A timid, childlike but brainy French schoolteacher (Charles Laughton), hopelessly in love with colleague Maureen O'Hara, must...Tags: Maurice Chevalier, Nazi Party, John Frankenheimer, Entertainment, Documentary (genre)
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5 films that are pre 'Austin Powers' spy comedies or spoofs
1. THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock; 1938) 4 stars Trains are perfect settings for murder-mysteries and thrillers, as Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" proves -- with Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood as lover-sleuths, Paul Lukas as a suave...Tags: Val Kilmer, Michael Redgrave, Politics, Ken Hughes, Crimes
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5 films that are modern or would-be Christmas classics
1. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra; 1946) 4 stars The most well-loved of all Christmas movies. One dark Christmas Eve, a good man, building and loan manager George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart), is brought to despair by fate and the machinations of evil...Tags: A Christmas Story (movie), Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Donna Reed, Christmas
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The 'Who's Whos' lists of 'Who's Dead?'
Courant Staff WriterFriday's the day we indulge in a curious fascination with coffin dwellers, mummies, cadavers, bloodsuckers, skeletons and monsters stitched together from assorted, dismembered body parts. Then we move on to trick-or-treats. Well, not all of us. There...Tags: David Niven, Death, Sugar Ray Leonard, Clayton Moore, Dudley Moore
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