Ed Yerke-Robins

Some of us haven't even hung the Christmas lights, and we're already supposed to pop champagne for New Year's Eve? Elsewhere, Jonah Hill & Charlize Theron battle for extreme arrested development!

In the world of internet film geekery, your seen-list is roughly equivalent to your penis size (the difference being that you actually use your seen-list on a regular basis). For a film geek as revered as Edgar Wright to publicly declare he hasn't seen X is a brave move on his part and a wonderful opportunity on ours, since he's made "Movies Edgar Has Never Seen" the theme of his latest Wright Stuff festival at the New Beverly!

After last week's monster Thanksgiving schedule, Hollywood wisely takes a breather from wide releases. In limited release, there's sex addicts, Bollywood starlet biopic & even more animation!

The Cinefamily draws us in this weekend with Animation Breakdown, a killer cartoon line-up featuring Pixar, Adult Swim, Don Hertzfeldt, Bruce Bickford & a kaleidoscope of Polish surrealists!

The Muppets, Marty Scorsese, The Artist, David Cronenberg & Viggo Mortensen... there's a LOT to be thankful for in theatres this weekend!

This Thanksgiving, the Cinefamily cranks it far beyond 11, with a members-only potluck stuffed with riffs & god knows how many psychedelics. Then examine "the paradox of love" with gay indie drama The Seminarian.

Prime yourself for next week's familial awkwardness with werewolves, vampires, comatose cheaters, dysfunctional weddings, British alcoholics & Iranian youth in revolt!

We love the New Beverly's special events so much that we sometimes forget how solid their "standard" programming is. Elsewhere, Horrible Movie Night brings the turkey a little early with Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.

Adam Sandler's latest & ancient Greece's greatest vie for #1 at the box office. Meanwhile, Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar & Werner Herzog's Into The Abyss look 111 days ahead as Oscar season begins.

A marathon Film Calendar in honor of Cure Crohn's & Colitis at Laemmle Santa Monica, the Jules Verne Nature & Education Program's Légendaire Award honoring John Wayne & some filth to follow all those fundraisers.