Ed Yerke-Robins

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.

This Halloween, down some Zombies & get wasted with The Rum Diary! Then, from three sheets to the wind comes nine lives of Puss In Boots. Plus Hipsters & Oka! in limited release.

We previously featured the LA Shorts Fest in our weekly Film Calendar. Today, we follow up with Donald Marcus, whose film Patrimony premiered at the event, on the long and the short of his experience.

What happens when your birthday falls on Halloween? If you're Cinefamily, you go all-out Disco Dracula Dance Party! Then take a complete 180 toward enlightenment with the documentary My Reincarnation at Laemmle's.

The third film in a horror franchise is often its defining point. It's when Friday the 13th gave Jason his hockey mask. It's when Halloween realized audiences wouldn't accept anyone but Michael Myers. It's when Saw transitioned from Jigsaw to his proteges. We don't yet know whether Paranormal Activity 3 will be as important in the grand scheme of the series.

For British noir fans, the final screenings of Went The Day Well? at the New Beverly will go down very well indeed. Then, the Cinefamily's Thursday Hellraiser thrillogy will pin you to your seat!