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"This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. Angels with Dirty Faces Angels with Dirth Faces (most likely the inspiration for the name Angels with Filthy Souls, the fake gangster movie featured in Home Alone as most people my age probably think of when hearing the title) throws a lot of different elements together. You have the main story with James Cagney's and Pat O'Brien's characters as friends who by circumstance get thrown into opposite paths in life but remain friends of sorts. You get a vehicle for the Dead End Kids that solidified them as a viable box office draw in their first main film outside of the Dead End story that made them famous. You get a love story that doesn't develop into much. And a few other elements here and there. Cagney is always so captivating to watch, and the interactions with the Dead End kids can be amusing as well. I was ready to rate this movie higher than I did until the end which quite annoyed me ... "
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"The Year My Parents Went On Vacation follows the emotional journey of a child hastily abandoned by his parents that is forced to adapt to the unfamiliar surroundings he now finds himself transplanted to. In the weeks leading up to the 1970 World Cup, Mauro is moved from his comfortable home to the noisy and alien streets of São Paulo, Brazil to stay with his grandfather while his parents go on a spur of the moment 'vacation.' Left standing with suitcase in hand on the curb of his new home, Mauro is immediately confronted with the death of his impromptu caretaker and left to forage for himself in an empty apartment. Days turn to weeks and an unlikely friendship forms between Mauro and the elderly Jewish neighbor that begrudgingly views the child's situation as an exercise in faith. The simplistic nature of the film allows for a heartwarming adventure about the naiveté of youth and the struggle of maintaining ones religious and political convictions in the face of hards ... "
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"I saw Christmas decorations in a storefront Sunday, so I guess it’s already time to break out the holiday movies. And it’s evidently time for distributors to release holiday fare to theaters, even if Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), which hits theaters this Friday, isn’t exactly the latest crowd-pleasing installment of the Santa Clause franchise. In fact, with such ingredients as estrangement, mental illness, alcoholism and cancer, it doesn’t seem like a very happy holidays kind of film. Even if it is actually a comedy. But then how many holiday movies are completely void of depressing themes and scenes? I’m sure to have grown up thinking more about the homeless, suicide and family dysfunction from films set at Christmas and Thanksgiving than I did thinking about the happiness that comes with these holidays. One of the most tearjerking moments for me as a kid was certainly seeing Mickey Mouse crying over his dead son in
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I Am Home Alone. Clip of the Day
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"It’s been awhile since I put the spotlight on a trailer mash-up, but I haven’t seen too many good ones lately. Have they gone out of fashion? Are internerds tired of watching such and such drama made to look like a comedy and such and such comedy made to look like a thriller? I don’t know, but this fake promo for Home Alone, recut to ape the I Am Legend trailer, is a evidence that the art of the mash-up should not be lost just yet. I have one problem with it, though. While it’s as good an idea as
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"The third part in Universal’s rebooted Mummy franchise takes the series in a new direction. Rather than set in Egypt and dealing again with the same old villain, Imhotep, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor brings us to China and gives us a different sort of preserved corpse baddie. And it looks like the change could actually add some freshness to the franchise. Of course, history would hint that such a move for the Mummy movies is a bad idea. While it seems beneficial in theory to redirect the focus of a series with the third installment, especially if the first sequel was too much a repetition of the original (a la The Mummy Returns), in practice many threequels mistakenly alter things for the worse. These aren’t necessarily the worst threequels ever made (*cough*
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Trade Roughage 1/21/08
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"This being a federal holiday and all, I figured there wouldn’t be much to report on from the trades. However, I was very, very wrong. Check out this doozy of an announcement: Oliver Stone is to direct a biopic about George W. Bush, which will be titled Bush and star Josh Brolin in the lead. Obviously, Stone had thought he was making a biopic about America’s worst President twelve years ago with Nixon, but then of course came along Bush the Second. And since he used an actor (Anthony Hopkins) for that film who looked nothing like the subject, this time he’s doing to the same. I only hope that James Brolin gets to play George H.W. Bush. The boys won the box office battle of the sexes as Cloverfield opened with $41 million, the best weekend bow ever for January. That’s almost as much money as Roland Emmerich’s
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"It’s really kind of a twisted concept when you think about it. What kind of irresponsible family leaves their 8 year old home accidentally while they fly off on a vacation? As convoluted as the setup is though, it works. And going on 20 years later I still laugh when the kid takes on the idiot criminals. Cartoon violence brought to life. "
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Home Alone by Christmas Movies
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"I'm not going to say too much about this movie, because its my most loved Chrsitmas Movie of all time (my 'Gone With The Wind' of Christmas movies). Nuff said. "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.Sixteen CandlesI kind of missed the whole brat pack thing the first couple times around. If it is something that keeps coming around. I dunno. It seems like something that a number of people of my generation seem to indentify with although I was still a small child when most of these movies came out.I guess I wasn't expecting a whole lot and I didn't really get a whole lot. The movie is about as vapid as any current Hollywood teen comedy that I might have accidentally seen. And like most of them also seems to somehow drag you along mindlessly without getting too bored but feeling just as empty at the end. Maybe it's a product of bad television conditioning.I guess John Hughes connected more with me with Home Alone which came out when I was 9-years-old. And I believe Macaulay Culkin was too, so I was obviously the prime audience. I co ... "
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Kevin Alone
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"Home Alone was in theaters in Europe when I was in school there. My name is Kevin, and when introduced, people would often say, "Kevin, yes, like the movie." Not able to speak anything but English, and having no money or television, I wasn't aware of what was playing in theaters. For the longest time I had no idea what they meant. Finally I asked one of my friends what was up, and they said, "you know, Kevin Alone, the film?" From my knowledge it was Home Alone, I said. Then we put it together. In German (I was in the German-speaking part of Switzerland), one can't have an implied subject as in "Home Alone." Pre-Michael Jaskson Macaulay Culkin played the little boy, whose name in the film as it turns out is Kevin. When distributed in German-speaking areas, they had to add the subject: Kevin. So it would have to be "Kevin Alone" (or perhaps it was "Kevin Home Alone" - I don't recall). As a result I was always associated with this movie while away from home, and this movie to my ... "
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