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DVD Tuesday: Go to Hell, George Lucas!
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All right, let's show this pre-historic bitch how we do things downtown! | Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures
After the disaster that was Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I think we can finally all agree that George Lucas has abdicated filmmaking in favor of fattening his already bloated wallet. Guillermo Del Toro, on the other hand, shows such a pure love of cinema that I can't imagine him ever following the same path. Let's hope he can protect The Hobbit from the increasingly clumsy ideas of Peter Jackson. Anyone still think that Tony Soprano didn't get whacked at the end of The Sopranos? Screw Charlie Chaplin--give me Buster Keaton! America has nothing like the divine nimbus that is Frenchie Ludivine Sagnier--to our great detriment.
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I don't know about you, but I can't think of a better Christmas gift for the nominally heterosexual husband than this lavish compendium of classic Hollywood musicals. The Warner Brothers Holiday Collection will please the grandmother in everyone. Dare Not Walk Alone created little more than a blip when it was in theaters, but it tells a seldom-heard and fascinating story about the Civil Rights Era. Didn't Warrant suck? In a just and fair universe, we would have more Delroy Lindo and less Tyler Perry.
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Warner Brothers Holiday Collection, Vol. 1
A Hundred Miles Or More: Live From the Tracking Room
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