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New This Week
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 Megamind
A Story of Repentance and Conversion
Cara B. Krumwiede
Two alien babies come to Earth where they engage in consistent competition with each other while their city and reporter Roxanne Ritchi are always caught in the middle of it. Megamind discovers that he has control of his own destiny.
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Featured Interview
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 TRON
Brought to Life
Elisabeth Leitch
With Halloween behind us and Thanksgiving just around the corner, fast approaching (along with the season's barrage of holiday sales, office parties, and family get-togethers) is also the winter selection of big budget blockbusters known as the holiday movie season.
And while I have yet to get my first Eggnog Latte from Starbucks, I recently got to enjoy a sweet treat on the Walt Disney Studio lot when I was invited to preview an unfinished version and pieces from their two biggest holiday releases-Tangled and TRON: Legacy...
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Join us in a journey to survey many of the great films of the silent era. We do not wish a one-sided conversation, so we invite your comments and feedback. May we take your hand and walk with you to this wondrous land? The curtain is rising, so we must hurry. Click through for the complete article index.
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My Friends the Monsters
Silent Tribute Series, Part X
11/14/10 | Comment Here I was raised on horror... and I'm not referring to my home life. Every Saturday night, at the stroke of midnight, our television set would strain to capture the black-and-white transmissions from the station in Bangor. The show was called Weird, and each week it would introduce a new monster that would crawl from the TV screen, slither through the refugee kernels from the Jiffy Pop pan, and lodge in my imagination. Introductions included the giant praying mantis in The Deadly Mantis, the alien doppelgängers in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and old familiar Universal Studio friends like Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, and the Mummy.
Growing up, monsters were a part of my circle of friends. They were as real as anything or anyone to a pudgy little kid with a crew cut scampering around the streets of Bar Harbor, Maine.
Now, monsters are old friends who touched a part of me. I cried when the Amazing Colossal Man was electrocuted. I wept when the flames of the burning windmill consumed Dr. Frankenstein's beast. I justified the rampage of the giant ants in Them! as simple payback for years of tyranny by human despots wielding insecticides, oppressive soles, and magnifying glasses.
These creatures weren't evil... they were misunderstood. They were only being what they were: monsters.
Monsters, though imaginary, are a part of life. There is in the human heart a shadowed area that teems with all things grotesque. It is a dark, damp dungeon. It reveals itself in the reluctance to go into the basement alone or the refusal to gaze across a darkened bedroom at a slightly opened closet door...
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New on DVD & Blu-ray
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 Ramona and Beezus
Like a Figment of Your Imagination
Jacob Sahms
Now on DVD. Beverly Cleary's beloved third-grader gets the big screen treatment, but this isn't just about the choices and joys of childhood. There are greater forces at work! This one has the ability to lure the parents in, too.
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