Holiday

The Official Christmas Movies Top Ten Best List

by Leah Gillis
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Now this is going to be controversial. Top 10 lists always are and I expect this will be no different.
Some might put forth that I am keeping out stories about Hanukah or Kwanzaa.  But it is a CHRISTMAS movie list I would reply. Religion has nothing to do with it.
But mostly I think it could [...]

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Film

Silent Movie Mondays returns today to The Paramount Theatre

by Maria Christensen
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f Mondays get you down, take yourself to The Paramount Theatre for the next three of them to indulge in some nostalgia. And I’m not talking about nostalgia for your childhood (well, not most of you anyway), but for the good old days of silent movies. And not just any silent movies, but classic science [...]

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Los Angeles

Where the Wild Things Are… Monchichi?

by Leah Gillis
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Like almost everyone else that loved the books, I was excited at the idea of Maurice Sendak’s classic tale coming to the big screen – as long as someone good was attached. But then they would have to be, because it’s Where The Wild Things Are…not just anyone would get to make it.  Enter Spike [...]

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Family

Halloween Events at Universal Studios and Disneyland

by Leah Gillis
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So apparently Knott’s Scary Farms supremacy  as the go to place for LA locals Halloween scare is being threatened by other big time venues.  Universal Studios has decided to get into the Halloween game (which makes sense, after all, they do have the Psycho house on the lot) by having a scary good time for [...]

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Seattle

See Psycho with the Seattle Symphony for Halloween

by Maria Christensen

Today is October 1st, which means it’s time to start thinking about Halloween. Right? Bear with me. If you don’t feel like running through a haunted house full of screaming teenagers, or have little ones to lead into a trick or treating sugar coma, there’s still some adult fun you can have on this spookiest [...]

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Comedy

“Silent Bob” Speaks – Kevin Smith comes to The Fillmore

by Lance Myers
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Writer/actor/director Kevin Smith is coming to Denver’s Fillmore Auditorium this November.  However, it isn’t going to be your typical comedic stage performance.
Famous for an extensive list of credits including such titles as “Clerks” and “Mallrats“, Kevin Smith will be speaking WITH fans instead of speaking TO them, in what is being referred to as more [...]

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Film

Movies With a View: Free Films by the Brooklyn Bridge

by Irene Fishman

Here comes season number ten of Movies with a View, a celebration of free movies at the Brooklyn Bridge Park! Complete with a full set of movies, complemented nicely by various DJs and a featured short film, this is a great way to spend an evening without spending a dime. Plus, there’s even a bike [...]

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New York

Kim’s Video Died Tonight

by Jonathan Mandell
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Tonight was the last day at Kim’s Video on Christopher Street in the Village. On the white board under “New This Week,” there was an infinity sign and under “Coming Soon,” the staff had written:
Unemployment
Poverty
Ennui
It is the end of Kim’s Video.
You could tell things were going badly way back in November, when they announced they [...]

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Festival

Los Angeles Film Festival, June 18-28

by Leah Gillis
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It is L.A. after all, so usually there is a film festival, but this is one of the good ones. 
I went to a screening of a friend-of-a-friend’s film yesterday (‘Paper Man’ good stuff) and thought how low on the radar the fest is this year. Usually there are banners all over town, but this year, [...]

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National

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival 2009, Mondays, Free

by Jonathan Mandell

I am sitting here in Bryant Park. It looks as if it is about to rain in four minutes, so I should not be doing this, but I’m using free public WiFi outdoors in midtown Manhattan, surrounded by trees — how many people can say that? Anyway. In front of me is this enormous movie [...]

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