Hopefully along with Christmas brings a nice long holiday. So while you’re all curled up with your cocoa, why not spend some time catching up with some of the greatest Christmas movies to come out of Hollywood! So here is my Holiday Top 10 to get you on your way!
10. Holiday Inn (1942) – This movie just has to be on any Christmas movie list – it is where the now well-known carol “White Christmas” originated! The cast is impeccable with Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby playing two friends who have a dance and song act. The twist comes when Crosby’s fiancée ends up choosing Fred instead and Bing moves to a Connecticut farm. He opens an Inn that is only open on holidays, and thus we get the title of the film. It really is a wonderful movie, light hearted and yet sappy at times, put it on, go ahead and curl up under a blanket, you won’t regret it!
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This Friday UCLA hosts comedians Eddie Izzard, Sarah Silverman, Tenacious D (Jack Black & Kyle Gass), Lewis Black and Patton Oswalt as they join super-comedian forces to raise money for the entertainment industry workers who have been affected by the Writers Guild Strike, providing both financial and health assistance.
Tickets are $75, and can be bought from a number of online ticket sites such as Goldstar, or Ticketmaster.
Again, the event is Friday, December 14 at 8:00pm at UCLA’s Royce Theatre.
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United Hollywood
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This Friday UCLA hosts comedians Eddie Izzard, Sarah Silverman, Tenacious D (Jack Black & Kyle Gass), Lewis Black and Patton Oswalt as they join super-comedian forces to raise money for the entertainment industry workers who have been affected by the Writers Guild Strike, providing both financial and health assistance.
Tickets are $75, and can be bought from a number of online ticket sites such as Goldstar, or Ticketmaster.
Again, the event is Friday, December 14 at 8:00pm at UCLA’s Royce Theatre.
More Info at:
United Hollywood
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From what I understand, it is due to the writer’s strike that the show has reached its (mid) season finale so early. As previously stated in past reviews, the writing has been lacking in many ways, and this “finale” seemed only to prove my point. Though not all bad, there were a few things that were a bit contrived. We were told last week that two Heroes would die, and die they did, well at least one of them is unquestionably a corpse.
***Spoilers AHEAD***
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As is always the problem with reviewing heroes, the many plot lines addressed in the review may leave you feeling jumbled and confused. This works out because it mimics how one usually feels before they collect their thoughts and digest the latest information. Yet this week seems to throw in too many pieces of too many puzzles, some of which advance the general plot and others, which seem to be well, filler.
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And all we got was A LOT of Claire and Noah Bennet and very little new information. They better make the season ender a two-hour episode with very, very few commercials.
I have been paying close attention to the script and plot since I began watching this show again, as I have heard a lot of people complain about it being sub par compared to the first season. The inadequacies finally screamed at me as I watched this week’s episode, “Cautionary Tales.” The show seems to have lost its comic book edge and is slowly becoming a typical prime time drama. Yet it did some sparks of originality and the creativity that made Heroes so popular in the first place.
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Well at least we now know where Peter has been, how his brother survived the fall from space and did not end up looking like the thing of nightmares. A little more about Elle, Adam and Bob and why the latter has smacked of a man who is just not to be trusted so far. Additionally, we learn of DL’s death and why Niki signed herself over to The Company. As well as the discovery by Maya and her brother Alejandro of the powers they both hold.
Even though we get all these answers, there are still cracks, which of course are intentionally placed otherwise, well, who would honestly continue to watch if we could figure it all out?
Now, don’t say I haven’t warned you:
***** SPOILERS AHEAD!!! *****
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I cannot quite explain why, but I refused to watch the beginning of season two of the NBC series “Heroes.” Something about the disappointing finale of the first season or the obnoxious personalities of some of the characters (I know Niki is beautiful and selfless, but her constant whining … oi, finish growing that backbone already.) Whatever it was, I’m not sure exactly why, but all of a sudden I had missed the first five episodes and so there it is. For this shocking decision, a fellow “Heroes” fanatic formally stripped me of my geek status. So hopefully I will have earned back my geek-scout badges now that I have caught up and will be reporting weekly on the show.
***Warning for those who are not up to date with the show; there is plot information you may not want to hear, proceed with caution***
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… from the Vaults of the Classics
These days a film that qualifies as “scary” is really just a conglomeration of CGI, ridiculous oozing make-up and simply put – excess of every possible sort. Granted there have been a few here and there that have made many an audience leap out of their skins, but there are many old-school horror/thriller films that did the same thing with mere camera techniques, angles, lighting and ambiance. Not to mention that the stories themselves are worth watching as opposed to modern plots, which consist of blood spurting scene after blood spurting scene. So for your viewing pleasure here is a compilation of The Top Ten Best Classic Horror/Thriller films from before1950…
#10 The Mummy (1932): Not necessarily a sleepless night inducing scary film but it is a tradition in the collection of thriller/horror films. Karloff is at his best here without uttering a sentence. Lighting is everything, especially when the camera looks into the mummy’s soulless eyes, filled with pools of horrible vengeance in which to drown. This version is superior to the remake because you can smell the rotting flesh in its ancient wrap as the creature shuffles along. [Read more →]
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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s JOHNY…..
Have you been to one too many Halloween parties in your lifetime? In the past week? Yet you love celebrating Halloween you say. Well then try something new this year and visit the Hollywood Forever Cemetery where Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shinning” will be shown (yes IN the cemetery!) at 7pm on Halloween night, gates open at 5:30pm.
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